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Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
No one suspected that playboy Congressman Charlie Wilson and his partner Gust Avrakotos, an agressive CIA agent, would mastermind the covert arming of the Afghan Mujahideen. Together they engineered what became one of the largest and most successful campaigns in CIA history. Profiles the unorthodox alliance, and chronicles the epic journey the two men undertook to guarantee the success of their "freedom fighters." Reveals the full story behind the...
2) Barack Obama
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Language
English
Description
Follow Obama from his early childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student days at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and his political career in Chicago. Go behind the scenes of Obama's extraordinarily successful presidential campaign and his journey to the 2008 Democratic Convention, and finally his election as president.
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Learn all about Kamala Harris. Explore her background and career path that led her from California politics to being the first woman vice president, the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. government, and the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president. detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video reinforce important concepts and make learning fun."--Container.
4) Weiner
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's disastrous 2013 mayoral campaign.
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
With unique access to a sitting member of Congress, this documentary tells the complex story of Rep. Barbara Lee, a steadfast voice for human rights, peace, and economic and racial justice. She was the lone vote in opposition to the broad authorization of military force following the September eleventh attacks and is the highest-ranking African American woman in the United States Congress.
7) Heaven's war
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jonah Thomas, a US senator, gets trapped in an epic battle fought between life and death.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Using interviews and rare archival footage, this chronicles Lewis's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, it explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. It also includes interviews with political leaders, colleagues, and...
11) Fourteen women
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A look at the fourteen women Senators of the 109th United States Congress, their struggle to reach that unprecedented number, and how they dealt with trying to balance family life and their jobs. Featuring U.S. Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (New York), Elizabeth Dole (North Carolina), Barbara Boxer (California), Maria Cantwell (Washington), Susan Collins (Maine), Dianne Feinstein (California), Kay Bailey Hutchison (Texas), Mary Landrieu (Louisiana),...
12) The double
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a United States Senator is brutally murdered, the evidence points to a Soviet assassin codenamed Cassius, who was long thought to be dead. Two men who know Cassius best are thrown together to catch him. Paul Shepherdson is a retired CIA operative who spent his career tracking Cassius around the globe. Ben Geary is a hotshot young FBI Agent and family man who has studied the killer's every move. Ben thinks he knows Cassius, but Paul knows he is...
13) Evan almighty
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Newly elected to Congress, Evan Baxter has left Buffalo, New York in pursuit of a greater calling. But that calling isn't serving in the illustrious ranks of America's politics, but being summoned by the Almighty himself, who has handed Evan the task of building a new ark. With time passing by and his family belittled by Evan's newfound realization, Evan will have to do the work that God has given him in what promises to be an unusual adventure for...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Jefferson Smith is a small town idealist who answers the call to duty when he's unexpectedly named to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. Determined to do some good, he sponsors a bill to create a national boy's camp, unaware it threatens to undermine a graft scheme sponsored by his home state's crooked political machine. Framed and threatened with expulsion, Jefferson takes to the Senate floor to prove his innocence.
15) Huey Long
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"No modern politician has captured the American imagination as has the Kingfish--Huey Long. Two years in the making, Ken Burns' documentary traces Long's spectacular career from the 1920s when he burst out of Louisiana's red clay hills to smash the state's power structure under the banner "Every Man a king" -- Publisher's website.
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