In recent years, politics and the political climate have played out like something out of the movies. And with the last few years of social unrest, an unprecedented public health crisis, and an ever expanding divide between the left and right, if it really were a movie, we would have likely turned it off by now.
However, our great nation is the land of movie making and as such over the last century or so, we have produced uplifting, thoughtful, and incisive fictional (and sometimes not so fictional) stories about government, presidents, and the political landscape as a whole. And while everyone’s taste in movies is entirely subjective (your list may vary widely from ours), here are just a few of the great political movies that have graced our silver screens over the last century.
