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Great political documentaries (No7) Outfoxed
My biggest problem with Fox News can be summed up in three words, “Fair and Balanced”. I don’t mind the fact that they’re right-wing. I don’t mind that their journalism often strays into rumour and...
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Great political documentaries (No8) Why we fight
Dwight D Eisenhower is that rarest of rare things, a US President that is popular with both Republicans and Democrats. Republicans like him because he presided over steady economic growth combined with...
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Great political documentaries (No9) The Times of Harvey Milk
Sometimes when people are transformed into symbols we run the risk of losing sight of them as actual human beings. This poses a problem for documentary makers. Do you glorify the symbol, or try to...
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Great political documentaries (No14) The Fog of War
There are the good political documentaries, there are the great political documentaries and then there is The Fog of War. Thomas Jefferson once said about Thomas Paine, ‘it will be your glory to have...
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Great political documentaries (No17) No End in Sight
When we invaded Iraq all the way back in 2003 we promised the Iraqis peace, prosperity and freedom. Instead of that we created a living hell that they are only now beginning to emerge from. No End in...
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Great political documentaries (No18) Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Everyone knows who Karl Rove is but surprisingly few people remember Lee Atwater. Rove describes Atwater in this documentary as part man and part myth. Others saw his as a political operator utterly...
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Great political documentaries (No21) Standard Operating Procedure
Standard Operating Procedure was unfairly overlooked when it was originally released. Perhaps this was because America had had enough of analysing its mistakes. Alternatively maybe it was because a...
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Great political documentaries (No22) Countdown to Zero
Near the beginning of Countdown to Zero you see inside one of the USA’s silos that houses their vast store of nuclear missiles. A sign is painted on the door, ‘Global delivery in less than half an hour...
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Great political documentaries (No23) The War Room
The War Room isn’t the first attempt to take a behind the scenes look at how a political campaign is run, Joe McGinniss’s book The Selling of the President had already done it in 1968. However it was...
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Great political documentaries (No25) Hearts and Minds
There have been hundreds of films and documentaries over the years attempting to explain what went wrong in Vietnam. Hearts and Minds was one of the first and best, and is notable for being released...
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