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

Spartan

Starring: Derek Luke
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 2004-06-15
Running Time: 107 minutes

FBI. CIA. Secret Service. Black Ops. Robert Scott (Val Kilmer) is all of these. When he is recruited to find Laura, the daughter of a government official, Scott is paired with novice Curtis (Derek Luke). Scott and Curtis stumble upon a white slavery ring, which may have some connection to Laura's disappearance.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary by Val Kilmer
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The Odessa File

Starring: Maximilian Schell
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 2000-01-11
Running Time: 128 minutes

An overeager German journalist (Jon Voight) discovers a long-buried secret plot beginning to resurface in this moderately compelling, surprisingly straightforward adaptation of a novel by conspiracy whiz Fredrick (Day of the Jackal) Forsythe. Although this somewhat pokey suspenser never quite flows the way a classic espionage thriller should, it does offer a number of compelling diversions ... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Smothered - The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Starring: David Halberstam
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Video Group
Release Date: 2003-01-28
Running Time: 92 minutes

An incredible slice of America’s media and pop-culture history, SMOTHERED tells the story of the censorship struggles of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, the Emmy Award winning television program, broadcast on CBS from 1967 until it was prematurely stru... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

Starring: Rick Ray
Rated: Unrated
Studio: MONTEREY VIDEO
Release Date: 2007-10-23
Running Time: 85 minutes

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its traditions in order to move into the future? These are some of the questions posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations fro... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Syriana (Widescreen Edition)

Starring: George Clooney
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 2006-06-20
Running Time: 128 minutes

Syriana is an oil-based soap opera set against the world of global oil cartels. It is to the oil industry as Traffic was to the drug trade (no surprise, since writer/director Stephen Gaghan wrote the screenplay to Traffic): a sprawling attempt to portray the vast political, business, social, and personal implications of a societal addiction, in this case, oil. A major merger b... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The Firm

Starring: Jeanne Tripplehorn
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Release Date: 2000-05-23
Running Time: 154 minutes

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Rendition

Starring: Reese Witherspoon
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Release Date: 2008-02-19
Running Time: 122 minutes

Roger Ebert called it "perfect," and certainly the timing couldn't have been much better: Rendition was released just as the U.S. was debating anew the issue of "extraordinary rendition," a policy (begun under the Clinton administration, accelerated after September 11, 2001) of handing over suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Alas, the movie only rar... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Constantine's Sword

Starring: Natasha Richardson
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Release Date: 2008-09-16
Running Time: 96 minutes

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The Contender

Starring: Jeff Bridges
Rated: R (Restricted)
Created By: Larry Groupe
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Release Date: 2001-03-06
Running Time: 127 minutes

When the truth becomes a weapon, power comes at a stunning price. Gary Oldman, Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges and Christian Slater deliver electrifying performances in this controversial, suspenseful and critically-acclaimed thriller that Ebert & Roeper and the Movies call "exciting and unusually intelligent, two very enthusiastic thumbs up!" Sometimes you can assassinate a leader without firing a shot... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Biography - Barack Obama

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
Release Date: 2007-10-30
Running Time: 50 minutes

This cable-television biography about the life of Illinois senator Barack Obama was made before he began campaigning to be the Democratic party's candidate for the 2008 presidential race. Still, the program suggests Obama has one or another kind of profound, Anerican destiny as a mixed-race activist who never comfortably fit into one or another group, and had to look deep into his own roots to und... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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