Your Guide To The Best Political DVDs Starting With The Highest Reviews

House of Cards Trilogy (House of Cards / To Play the King / The Final Cut)

Starring: Michael Kitchen
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Directed By: Mike Vardy
Studio: BBC Warner
Release Date: 2003-08-26
Running Time: 640 minutes

Ian Richardson (From Hell, M. Butterfly) leads an all star cast in this malevolent satire of greed, corruption and ambition in the highest realms of government. As Machiavellian monster Francis Urquhart, he schemes and backstabs his way to the top until he is standing on a pile of broken promises, betrayals and the bodies of those who oppose him. Every step of the way, Urquhart lays out his plans... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 2004-05-11
Running Time: 107 minutes

The Fog of War, the movie that finally won Errol Morris the best documentary Oscar, is a spellbinder. Morris interviews Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and finds a uniquely unsettling viewpoint on much of 20th-century American history. Employing a ton of archival material, including LBJ's fascinating taped conversations from the Oval Office,... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The Manchurian Candidate (Special Edition)

Starring: Laurence Harvey
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: 2004-07-13
Running Time: 127 minutes

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Bowling for Columbine

Starring: Dick Cheney
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: 2003-08-19
Running Time: 119 minutes

Michael Moore's superb documentary (following in the footsteps of Roger & Me and The Big One) tackles a meaty subject: gun control. Moore skillfully lays out arguments surrounding the issue and short-circuits them all, leaving one impossible question: why do Americans kill each other more often than people in any other democratic nation? Moore focuses his quest around the shootings a... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Robin Williams - Live on Broadway

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony
Release Date: 2002-11-19
Running Time: 126 minutes

Sharper and deeper than Robin Williams's previous road material, Live on Broadway is a mature comedian's view of all things to do with power, prejudice, and paranoia in the 21st century. On the anthrax scare of 2001: "The Senate cleared out of their building but told the rest of us, 'Get on with your normal lives!'" On his solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem: "Time s... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The West Wing - The Complete First Season

Starring: Stockard Channing
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 2003-11-18
Running Time: 956 minutes

Conventional wisdom prior to season one of The West Wing was that the only successful television shows were half hour sitcoms and hour long police, legal, or medical dramas. Building on surplus ideas from his film The American President and the walk-and-talk style of comedy and drama from his critically acclaimed television show Sports Night, Aaron Sorkin bucked the trend and ... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Wall Street (20th Anniversary Edition)

Starring: Thomas Anderson
Rated: R (Restricted)
Created By: Stewart Copeland
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 2007-09-18
Running Time: 126 minutes

Michael Douglas won an Oscar for perfectly embodying the Reagan-era credo that "greed is good." As a Donald Trump-like Wall Street raider aptly named Gordon Gecko (for his reptilian ability to attack corporate targets and swallow them whole), Douglas found a role tailor-made to his skill in portraying heartless men who've sacrificed humanity to power. He's a slick, seductive role model for the you... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Wall Street

Starring: John Capodice
Rated: R (Restricted)
Created By: Charlie Sheen
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 2000-11-07
Running Time: 126 minutes

In this riveting, behind-the-scenes look at big business in the 1980's, an ambitious young broker (Charlie Sheen) is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage when he is seduced by the power, status and financial wizardry of Wall Street legend Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas). But he soon discovers that the pursuit of overnight riches comes at a price that's too high to pay.... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing (Full Screen Edition)

Starring: Emily Robison
Rated: R (Restricted)
Directed By: Cecilia Peck
Studio: Weinstein Company
Release Date: 2007-02-20
Running Time: 93 minutes

Shut Up & Sing finds two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple (American Dream) and co-director Cecilia Peck following the lives and career developments of the Dixie Chicks in the wake of singer Natalie Maines’ denunciation of the Iraq war and President Bush in 2003. The film returns to the pivotal moment in which Maines, speaking to a London audience, raised opposition to Ameri... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The Devil Wears Prada (Full Screen Edition)

Starring: Anne Hathaway
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 2006-12-12
Running Time: 109 minutes

This clever, funny big-screen adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's best-seller takes some of the snarky bite out of the chick lit book, but smoothes out the characters' boxy edges to make a more satisfying movie. There's no doubt The Devil Wears Prada belongs to Meryl Streep, who tu... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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