1. Campaign Manager
This brief portrait follows 28-year-old campaign manager John Grenier as he maps out strategies for Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential run and engineers a takeover of the Republican convention.
2. CIA vs KGB: Battleground Berlin (KGB-CIA, au corps à corps)
For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war between the US and the Soviet bloc. Thousands of KGB or CIA, agents observed each other, cogs in the biggest information war in history.
3. People of Russia
This FitzPatrick Miniature visits the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , the largest geographically unbroken political unit in the world, covering one-sixth of the world's land mass.
4. No Time to Fail
Amidst an onslaught of attacks from a sitting President and the deadly threat of a global pandemic, local election administrators work around the clock to secure the vote for their community. Rhode Island’s election teams take center stage in this unprecedented voting adventure.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
5. Kin-dza-dza! (Кин-дза-дза!)
Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-da galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms if they ever hope to return to Earth.
It has an average vote of 7.792 on TMDB.
6. Afonya (Афоня)
The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. His wife leaves him, his boss places him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. Afonya met Katya at a dance club, yet didn't pay her much attention. But she is the one, who can save him... In this movie Daneliya achieves a perfect balance of satire and drama. Quotes from the movie gained a cult status in USSR.
It has an average vote of 7.935 on TMDB.
7. Women of the Gulag (Женщины ГУЛАГа)
Through unique and candid interviews the film tells the compelling and tragic stories of the six women – last survivors of the Gulag, the brutal system of repression and terror that devastated the Soviet population during the regime of Stalin.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
8. Election
Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks football player Paul Metzler to run for president as well.
It has an average vote of 6.852 on TMDB.
9. Palace for the People (Дворците на народа)
The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters.
It has an average vote of 8.7 on TMDB.
10. UNCOUNTED - The Story of the California Election
In an extensive mini-documentary by Michelle Boley and Taylor Gill and produced by TYT and Rogue Kite Productions, the true story of what happened leading up to and after the 2016 California Democratic Primary is uncovered.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
11. Motherland
A lighthearted psychodrama about mommy issues and Hillary Clinton.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
12. Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin
The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.
It has an average vote of 8.7 on TMDB.
13. Chicken Elections (Пилећи избори)
Present day: a small village somewhere in rural Serbia. Reports on the upcoming parliamentary elections drone from the radio while a local traffic policeman tries to teach his old grandmother how to use a mobile phone. Glimpses of this old lady, who lives a lonely life on a remote farm, become the red thread running through the film with its snapshot-like portraits of everyday life in the tiny community. There’s the grocer’s shop the men visit to talk about money and politics. Or the postman who delivers on his moped the ballot papers for the forthcoming elections. The policeman who stops cars as he fancies. The school with a handful of children in the overlarge classroom. The pub in which something approaching merriment occasionally arises. And the recurrent visits to the old peasant woman: Her matter-of-fact inventory of aches and pains delivered to the local doctor, her worries about increasing thievery confided in the village priest.
14. Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party (Congrès de Tours. 1920 : La Naissance des deux gauches)
(Congrès de Tours. 1920 : La Naissance des deux gauches)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
15. Popeye for President
Popeye and Bluto are running for President. It's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive Oyl is the only remaining voter. However, she won't vote, and the election outcome be decided, until her chores are done. Popeye and Bluto compete to complete them.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
16. Alcalde por elección (Alcalde por elección)
(Alcalde por elección)
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
17. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.
It has an average vote of 6.934 on TMDB.
18. Poland: A Nation under Stress (Polen an der Grenze)
In the run-up to parliamentary elections in mid-October, Polish filmmaker Marcin Wierzchowski travelled across his country to gauge the atmosphere in a society that is more divided than ever.
19. Represent
In the heart of the American Midwest, three women take on entrenched political systems in their fight to reshape local politics on their own terms.
20. El Candidato (El Candidato)
(El Candidato)
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.