![]() | Doctor Strangelove (Collectors Edition) [DVD] [1963]
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £2.69 Brilliant cold war satire, Kubrick's greatest film, brilliant performances from Hayden, Scott & Sellers etc- though apparently Reagan modelled his war room on the one here!
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![]() | Seven Days In May [VHS] [1964]
Buy used from: £21.99 John Frankenheimer's loose 60s paranoia-trilogy starts here, moves onto The Manchurian Candidate and ends with the sinister Seconds...
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![]() | Mr Smith Goes To Washington [DVD] [1939]
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £1.92 There is a reason for the adjective 'Capraesque'...
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![]() | The Front [DVD] [1976] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £18.92 This and Lumet's Daniel deal with the spectre of McCarthyism- sadly both are rarely screened & hard to find...
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![]() | All The President's Men [DVD] [1976]
Buy used from: £3.98 The final part of Pakula's 70s paranoia trilogy that began with Klute, moved onto The Parallax View & had relatives like The Conversation, Chinatown & Network that reflected the political climes...
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![]() | Reds [VHS] [1981]
Buy used from: £4.39 Warren Beatty's masterpiece, despite turning a bit Dr Zhivago in the latter half...
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![]() | Salvador--Special Edition [DVD] [1985]
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.64 Oliver Stone's potent coming of age regarding U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, notably El Salvador. The title translates as 'Saviour.'
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![]() | Matewan [DVD] [1987]
Buy used from: £19.98 John Sayles' brilliant depiction of union-related politics and actions that features Chris Cooper & a very young Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy to some...)
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![]() | Bob Roberts [VHS] [1992]
Buy used from: £0.01 Sharp satire that predicts an right-wing idiot running for president armed with a dubious morality....
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![]() | Bulworth [DVD] [1999]
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £1.10 Beatty rips it out of Big Business, Democrats, Republicans & just about everything else. Has been described as the movie equivalent of a Bill Hicks' sketch. Nice one, Warren....
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![]() | Three Kings [DVD] [2000]
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.41 A film that is read in other ways following the recent U.S. invasion & occupation of Iraq for fictional reasons. Witness how Bush Senior left buddy Saddam in power & fought a war to free Kuwaiti oil..
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![]() | Nixon [DVD] [1996]
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.00 I think this is Oliver Stone's masterpiece and a film that in time should become regarded as classic as Citizen Kane or The Grapes of Wrath. A bold biopic...
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![]() | Malcolm X [DVD] [1993]
Buy used from: £11.87 It has problems- like Gandhi, it's perhaps a little too reverential- but a brave film anyway & one that Lee relates to the contemporary age in which it was made..
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![]() | Bowling For Columbine : Special Edition (Two Disc Set) [DVD] [2002]
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.67 Like Commandante, The Fog of War and the just released Fahrenheit9-11, this is part of the rebirth of the American documentary on politics. Moore asks why the U.S. has such a big problem with guns...
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![]() | Comandante [DVD] [2003]
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £4.25 Stone's recent documentary on Fidel Castro; I would like to see the Arafat docu also and wonder if that could help change U.S. policy regarding Israel (the bail out veto regardless...)
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![]() | Top Gun [VHS] [1986]
Buy used from: £0.01 Tells you everything you need to know about the right wing's militarist wet dream; see also Rambo II, Black Hawk Down & DC9/11: Time of Crisis. Oh, and the 2003 Iraq War on TV.
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![]() | Wag The Dog [VHS] [1998]
Buy used from: £0.25 This one was a bit overlooked due to the Clinton-Lewinsky headlines at the time....
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![]() | Primary Colors [VHS] [1998]
Buy used from: £0.01 Ditto- this has good performances but could have been grittier..
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![]() | The Contender [DVD] [2001]
Buy used from: £0.33 Like The West Wing, this is a utopian take on Democrats in power. Entertaining like The West Wing, but the kind of gutless idealism that doesn't help anything.
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![]() | Thirteen Days [DVD] [2001]
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.21 Anothher entertaining political film, which isn't as cheesy as it could have been- though you might want to read American Tabloid after to reassert those rose-tinted perceptions...
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![]() | Dave [VHS] [1993]
Buy used from: £0.01 Apparently this was one of Dubya's favourite films- an idiot finds himself president. Now why would that ring a bell?
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![]() | JFK [1992] [DVD]
Buy used from: £8.49 Oliver Stone presents multiple, conflicting perceptions on a history that has been perverted....
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![]() | Hoffa [DVD] [1992] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £2.75 Mamet-scripted, nicely acted, but a bit of a letdown really....
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![]() | The Insider [DVD] [2000]
Buy used from: £2.88 Michael Mann's film looks at corporate corruption- apt in these Enron climes...
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![]() | The Passion of the Christ [DVD] [2004]
Buy used from: £2.79 Part of the U.S.' so-called culture wars. Gibson's horror-film is balm for the christian right in the U.S. & is very, very silly. Watch Pasolini's Christ film instead....
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![Doctor Strangelove (Collectors Edition) [DVD] [1963]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31EaKZqT4UL._SL75_.jpg)
![Seven Days In May [VHS] [1964]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NS328JP7L._SL75_.jpg)
![Mr Smith Goes To Washington [DVD] [1939]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZC76NCK2L._SL75_.jpg)
![The Front [DVD] [1976] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N37DC150L._SL75_.jpg)
![All The President's Men [DVD] [1976]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F6J7XVCRL._SL75_.jpg)
![Reds [VHS] [1981]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41C0NR26VCL._SL75_.jpg)
![Salvador--Special Edition [DVD] [1985]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51W2Q89FP9L._SL75_.jpg)
![Matewan [DVD] [1987]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZFWT526KL._SL75_.jpg)
![Bob Roberts [VHS] [1992]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/714MYJ4V41L._SL75_.gif)
![Bulworth [DVD] [1999]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51457MQ3YCL._SL75_.jpg)
![Three Kings [DVD] [2000]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513FX59FXVL._SL75_.jpg)
![Nixon [DVD] [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XEEPD172L._SL75_.jpg)
![Malcolm X [DVD] [1993]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KPXNGJWYL._SL75_.jpg)
![Bowling For Columbine : Special Edition (Two Disc Set) [DVD] [2002]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512F8GYJGAL._SL75_.jpg)
![Comandante [DVD] [2003]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511NNGDJBEL._SL75_.jpg)
![Top Gun [VHS] [1986]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K47XQK0HL._SL75_.jpg)
![Wag The Dog [VHS] [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M6JXKFXWL._SL75_.jpg)
![Primary Colors [VHS] [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514EDTS1YFL._SL75_.jpg)
![The Contender [DVD] [2001]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WTV6HB52L._SL75_.jpg)
![Thirteen Days [DVD] [2001]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GR4F480XL._SL75_.jpg)
![Dave [VHS] [1993]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EA3XF5A7L._SL75_.jpg)
![JFK [1992] [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QD2AGPDVL._SL75_.jpg)
![Hoffa [DVD] [1992] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510Z5GRR5RL._SL75_.jpg)
![The Insider [DVD] [2000]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414TPV2TWVL._SL75_.jpg)
![The Passion of the Christ [DVD] [2004]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519R0C1MBZL._SL75_.jpg)
![The Philadelphia Story [DVD] [1940]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M2JQFVP1L._SL75_.jpg)
![The Bedford Incident [DVD] [1965]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513BPPNA1NL._SL75_.jpg)
![Twelve Angry Men [DVD] [1957]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EJ0B84MSL._SL75_.jpg)