Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
Hell-Bent for Election
Real Voters of the USA
MediaOcracy
How to Master Debate
First Time Voters
Why We March
Brother Outsider
The Outfit
The Candidate
The After Party
Feed
Breaking Through
One Bright Shining Moment
Abraham Lincoln
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Radicalized
At the River I Stand
State of Snakes
Our Nixon
The Death of Abraham Lincoln (in Three Parts)
LBJ
Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell
The Weather Underground
A Perfect Candidate
Decision '80
California Election News
Black Wax
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
Crossing Arizona
Polling Party
In honor of the election, we at Fandor have selected a mash-up of films with American Politics as the thread. Ranging from documentaries that explore past presidential campaigns (FEED, ONE BRIGHT SHINING MOMENT) or the leaders who fought for justice (BROTHER OUTSIDER, BREAKING THROUGH) to experimental comments (THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN (IN THREE PARTS), DICK CHENEY IN A COLD, DARK CELL) with all the drama (THE CANDIDATE) and comedy (THE OUTFIT, REAL VOTERS OF THE USA) a voter can take. We offer full transparency. Whether you're with her or him, we want you with us. It's not polite to talk politics, so watch instead.
Selected Films
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The After Party
In 1993, the film THE LAST PARTY was released. The documentary followed Robert Downey Jr.'s initiation in to the world of politics. In 2000 came the sequel, THE PARTY'S OVER, following Philip Seymour Hoffman on the campaign trail. The third film in the trilogy, THE AFTER PARTY, is a documentary...Watch Movie
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Breaking Through
In BREAKING THROUGH, openly LGBT elected officials at all levels (including the first gay US Senator, Tammy Baldwin) share their stories of self-doubt and triumph over multiple barriers ranging from race and poverty to gender and sexual orientation, revealing a deeply...Watch Movie
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Radicalized
A revolutionary film about the new season of political resistance in Los Angeles. RADICALIZED is the definitive voice of a generation documentary film, crafted from thousands of hours of footage shot over a three year period. Ideology meets reality and collides with the powers that be, as...Watch Movie
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Our Nixon
Throughout Richard Nixon's presidency, three of his top White House aides documented their experiences with Super 8 home movie cameras. Young, idealistic and dedicated, they had no idea that a few years later they'd all be at the center of a history-making impeachment scandal. This unique and...Watch Movie
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The Death of Abraham Lincoln (in Three Parts)
Started in 1998 but completed in 2000, THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN (IN THREE PARTS) is an ahistorical re-enactment of the strange and curious events that led up to the untimely demise of our nation's sixteenth president. Each chapter is loosely connected to the others via a...Watch Movie
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LBJ
Most definitely an unauthorized biography, Cuban agit-prop filmmaker Santiago Alvarez scavenges imagery from LIFE magazine, cowboy movies and Playboy to lampoon Lyndon B. Johnson’s tyranny. The assassinations of John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert and Martin Luther King, Jr. are all laid at...Watch Movie
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Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell
River ice sets the scene for Judy Garland's international cri de coeur. It's hard to understate the amount of anxiety created by a Vice President who usurped authority for eight years to start wars and wreck the economy and then sidled off to Wyoming to be a retired "hero of...Watch Movie
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The Weather Underground
Thirty years ago, with these words, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government. Fueled by outrage over the Vietnam War and racism in America, they went underground during the 1970s, bombing targets across the country that they...Watch Movie
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Black Wax
BLACK WAX is a musical-political entertainment film produced and directed by Robert Mugge in 1982. It was the first American film to be fully funded by Britain's then-brand-new Channel 4 Television and also likely the first film to use Steadicam from first frame to last. BLACK WAX centers on the...Watch Movie
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Crossing Arizona
A Sundance Film Festival favorite, CROSSING ARIZONA offers an up-close multi-dimensional look at the hotly debated issue of illegal immigration and border security at America's flashpoint (where Arizona meets Mexico). This powerful documentary reveals the complicated dilemmas...Watch Movie
