Politics have proven to be fertile ground for storytelling on film. Whether it's true stories like All The President's Men. fictional ones like The Ides Of March, or even a mixture of both, like Primary Colors , stories about politics are ultimately among the most human of stories.
We see all our aspirations and all of our flaws in them, like those on this list of great political movies. All The President's Men Watergate and the investigative reporting by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for the Washington Post changed American politics forever. Not only did it lead directly to the downfall of Richard Nixon, but it changed the way journalists reported on politicians completely.
All The President's Men is a fast-paced look at that investigation starring Robert Redford as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein. It's one of the best ever. The American President As compared to some of the other movies on this list, The American President is pretty light fare.
The Rob Reiner -directed political rom-com, written by Aaron Sorkin and starring Annette Benning and Michael Douglas as the titular president is about the two main characters falling in love, but there is plenty of politics going on in the background to satisfy any political junkie. It also Sorkin to develop The West Wing , so for that we should be forever grateful. Wag The Dog Black comedy is a tough thing to pull off well, but Wag the Dog does it brilliantly.
The way it makes the creation of a fake war to build support be.