A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist "Calamity" Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy, now coaching the opposition.

Investigates how President Trump turned immigration into a powerful political weapon that fueled division and violence. The documentary goes inside the efforts of three political insurgents to tap into populist anger, transform the Republican Party and crack down on immigration.

Embedding herself in the village of Wukan, southern China for several years starting in 2011, first-time documentarian Jill Li witnessed an unprecedented experiment in local democracy. Corrupt officials had illegally sold villagers2 land, but the villagers decided to fight back. The documentary is divided into two halves: the first, 1Protests,2 depicts the grassroots activities of Wukan residents as they work to reverse the land sales and gain a substantial...

A young DC aide kick-starts his government career by sleeping with powerful women. But after seducing a candidate's daughter, he learns the game of politics can be a deadly game.

The Action League Grannies have been spied on by the California National Guard. They've been written about in Time magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Jose Mercury News. They've appeared on Fox News with Bill O'Reilly, Jon Stewart's Comedy Central, and are regulars in Bay Area evening news stories. In public, they've been both booed and cheered, but they continue to protest with a sense of outrage, a sense of humor, and a commitment...

We all know Washington is broken. Our federal government's spending, regulations and tax breaks are deeply corrupted in favor of the special interests that lobby it. Fed up with the status quo, Americans keep electing people who pledge to change it, to no avail. Why? With expert testimony from high-ranking officials, UNREPRESENTED reveals that what is stopping the Federal government from enacting popular reforms is the corrupt way it is financed....

Five experts (John Dunn, Karl Gerth, Martin Jay, Josiah Ober, and Quentin Skinner) give their perspectives on different aspects of democracy: its meaning in different cultures and in different times, and possible ways to improve the way it works today.

Based of a true story about a journalist who gets detained and brutally interrogated in prison for 118 days. A Tehran-born journalist based in London, Maziar Bahari returns to Iran to cover the 2009 presidential election and its ensuing riots. He is detained by Iranian forces who relentlessly interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.

After beating a murder rap for selling faulty e-cigarettes at a music festival, Tim launches a campaign for San Bernardino District Attorney despite a complete lack of experience. Fueled by ego and ignorance, he tries to surmount the obstacles facing him by personally connecting with unsuspecting voters.

Director Astra Taylor's idiosyncratic, philosophical journey spans millennia and continents, from ancient Athens's groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism's roots in medieval Italy, from modern-day Greece grappling with financial collapse and a mounting refugee crisis to the United States reckoning with its racist past and the growing gap between rich and poor.