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Netflix
87
8.2
/39106/
81
/2484/
79
/773/
4.3
/117244/
97
/105/
90
/240/
81
/29/
cc age 16+

13th (2016)
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
82
7.4
/17583/
72
/326/
69
/246/
3.8
/4286/
100
/93/
90
/751/
82
/25/

Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
poster
82
7.6
/115596/
75
/2310/
72
/1256/
3.7
/54955/
93
/258/
88
/7711/
80
/38/
cc age 14+

Frost/Nixon (2008)
For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans. Likewise, Frost's team harboured doubts about their boss's ability to hold his own. But as the cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted.
poster
Kanopy
80
8.0
/10205/
82
/552/
77
/195/
3.8
/5869/
92
/25/
84
/71/
cc age 12+

Requiem for the American Dream (2015)
Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation. He provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time – the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.
poster
80
7.4
/104741/
73
/1899/
70
/1068/
3.7
/48433/
93
/226/
83
/4960/
80
/41/
cc age 13+

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
poster
80
7.3
/283173/
72
/6749/
68
/3971/
3.6
/210870/
89
/288/
80
/8637/
87
/45/
cc age 13+

Lincoln (2012)
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
poster
79
7.3
/105145/
72
/2070/
69
/1205/
3.6
/50407/
88
/58/
80
/1197/
79
/24/
cc age 17+

The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.5
/30839/
73
/471/
70
/390/
3.7
/11599/
81
/132/
88
/744/
70
/34/

The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
poster
79
78
7.8
/18713/
77
/328/
72
/217/
3.9
/11444/
92
/25/
89
/165/
73
/6/

Seven Days in May (1964)
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
poster
80
77
7.7
/8261/
75
/247/
73
/195/
4.2
/25696/
92
/12/
86
/231/

Punishment Park (1971)
In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in Punishment Park, where they will be hunted for sport by federal authorities. The prisoners invariably choose the latter option, but learn that, between the desert heat and the brutal police officers, their chances of survival are slim.
poster
Hulu
76
7.6
/15562/
77
/799/
75
/303/
3.8
/27161/
93
/179/
78
/297/
71
/32/
cc age 10+

RBG (2018)
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.
poster
79
75
7.5
/13480/
72
/245/
72
/180/
3.7
/11016/
97
/38/
85
/252/

Born Yesterday (1950)
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.
poster
Netflix
73
7.1
/41942/
76
/2358/
73
/1106/
3.5
/59500/
72
/269/
76
/446/
59
/40/
cc age 12+

On the Basis of Sex (2018)
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
71
7.6
/61032/
73
/1865/
70
/622/
3.3
/16760/
69
/154/
78
/4735/
56
/31/
cc age 16+

Religulous (2008)
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about their faith. Traveling around the world, Maher examines the tenets of Christianity, Judaism and Islam and raises questions about homosexuality, proof of Christ's existence, Jewish Sabbath laws, violent Muslim extremists.
poster
71
7.5
/87812/
77
/5658/
74
/1928/
3.7
/52240/
76
/190/
72
/545/
64
/41/
cc age 16+

Miss Sloane (2016)
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
poster
69
6.5
/14110/
66
/381/
62
/217/
3.3
/8871/
73
/77/
59
/184/
67
/11/
cc age 17+

Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.
poster
Hoopla
68
6.7
/3266/
70
/68/
61
/57/
3.3
/975/
64
/11/
73
/38/

Come See the Paradise (1990)
In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.
poster
Starz
68
7.3
/171534/
75
/15448/
71
/4553/
3.3
/130536/
61
/261/
70
/878/
58
/43/
cc age 16+

Snowden (2016)
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
67
7.4
/6769/
73
/203/
70
/104/
3.6
/2115/
78
/65/
76
/141/
60
/16/
cc age 16+

Any Day Now (2012)
In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
65
7.1
/1856/
66
/29/
57
/27/
3.4
/526/
67
/9/
69
/27/

Stonewall (1995)
A group of gay friends try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.
poster
63
7.2
/173351/
71
/7053/
70
/3521/
3.5
/280852/
64
/366/
61
/1516/
61
/54/
cc age 15+

Vice (2018)
George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and Defense Secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.
poster
62
6.4
/17834/
63
/260/
58
/188/
3.2
/9893/
63
/144/
56
/3130/
54
/28/
cc age 16+

Hamlet 2 (2008)
Failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz rallies his Tucson students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
poster
Kanopy
61
6.9
/60422/
69
/1223/
67
/808/
3.3
/24243/
42
/142/
61
/1785/
27
/30/
cc age 11+

The Majestic (2001)
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
poster
Hoopla
60
6.3
/2458/
70
/43/
55
/33/
3.2
/573/
52
/42/
71
/104/
36
/26/
cc age 16+

Steal This Movie (2000)
Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.
poster
Fandor
54
5.6
/4347/
52
/45/
54
/65/
3.3
/2044/
41
/37/
55
/81/
36
/25/

8 ½ Women (1999)
After his wife dies, middle-aged businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight-and-a-half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. As a year passes, the women begin asserting their own power.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
53
7.4
/1302/
69
/49/
66
/32/
3.5
/1138/
84
/55/
78
/68/
71
/18/

Trumbo (2007)
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. Trumbo was one of several writers, directors, and actors who invoked the First Amendment in refusing to answer questions under oath. They were blacklisted and imprisoned. We follow Trumbo to prison, to exile in Mexico with his family, to poverty, to the public shunning of his children, to his writing under others' names, and to an eventual but incomplete vindication. Actors read his letters; his children and friends remember and comment. Archive photos, newsreels and interviews add texture. Written by
poster
Kanopy
69
51
7.0
/2329/
61
/30/
61
/31/
3.7
/5353/
81
/31/
69
/27/
cc age 11+

Hester Street (1975)
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
poster
The Roku Channel
70
50
7.5
/1791/
67
/71/
61
/29/
3.5
/830/
79
/57/
76
/164/
64
/20/

Outrage (2009)
An indictment of closeted politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in the US.
poster
65
40
7.1
/1297/
74
/57/
55
/22/
3.4
/322/
64
/36/
72
/99/
55
/15/

8: The Mormon Proposition (2010)
Filmmaker and ex-Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints member Reed Cowan examines that church's nationwide efforts to prevent the legalization of gay marriage - including California's Proposition 8, which was passed by voters in 2008. Confidential church documents, statements by high-ranking church officials and other sources detail 30 years of efforts to turn back gay rights, particularly by the Mormon-sponsored National Organization for Marriage.
poster
Kanopy
51
37
6.2
/1881/
60
/68/
56
/34/
2.9
/2094/
44
/9/
47
/22/
36
/6/
cc age 16+

Beware the Gonzo (2010)
Eddie "Gonzo" Gilman is starting a revolution. When the wild-eyed rebel journalist is ousted from his prep school's newspaper by its über-popular editor, Eddie fronts an underground movement to give a voice to all the misfits, outcasts, and nerds. Soon the power of the press is in Eddie's hands... but will he use it wisely?
poster
32
2.0
/1982/
33
/9/
20
/10/
38
/104/
32
/8/

The Undefeated (2011)
A documentary that chronicles Sarah Palin's pre-political life; her tenure as Governor of Alaska, and her time spent as John McCain's running mate.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
61
32
6.7
/2666/
65
/49/
63
/41/
3.2
/706/
38
/8/
70
/4/

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.
poster
58
28
5.8
/921/
50
/13/
46
/14/
3.2
/544/
80
/5/
53
/22/

The Spirit of '76 (1990)
Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this "ideal" civilization. 70's jokes, props and stars abound.
poster
52
28
6.0
/485/
60
/45/
58
/11/
38
/26/
57
/55/
40
/13/

Margaret Cho: Assassin (2005)
Margaret Cho returns to the concert stage with a "killer" one-woman show that has taken audiences by storm. Filmed live at the Warner Theatre in Washington D.C., Assassin features a fresh dose of Margaret’s ground-breaking and controversial brand of humor. Taking aim at the Bush administration and the religious right, she pulls no punches in her assault on the "ever devolving" state of the union. The result is an unforgettable performance featuring Margaret at her raw, irreverent and hilarious best.
poster
Hoopla
59
26
6.4
/1750/
60
/28/
60
/27/
3.2
/535/
47
/21/

First Monday in October (1981)
For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.
poster
49
21
5.2
/827/
47
/30/
50
/29/
2.5
/1081/

Old Glory (1939)
Porky Pig balks at learning the Pledge of Allegiance until Uncle Sam appears to him in a dream and gives him a lesson in American history.
poster
59
18
6.4
/529/
62
/24/
57
/12/
53
/25/

Naked States (2000)
A humorous and provocative examination of one artist's dynamic work and its relevance within the cultural biography of America, documenting one man's journey as he traveled each of the 50 states to ask Americans of all races, shapes and body sizes to take off their clothes and pose in public, before his camera all for the sake of art. Artist Spencer Tunick's subjects are not paid models, but ordinary citizens. The film exposes America's current attitudes towards nudity, sexuality, body image, and all the other baggage that comes up when we take off our clothes.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
13
6.5
/914/
51
/6/
58
/13/
3.3
/212/
68
/7/

Dirty Pictures (2000)
A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
poster
56
8
5.5
/271/
53
/12/
55
/10/
3.1
/289/

Daffy Duck for President (2004)
Daffy Duck tries to go into the government to make a law stating that Rabbit Season shall be a minimum of 12 months, while Bugs tries to stop him by means of the U.S. constitution.
poster
Hoopla
37
6
4.2
/451/
24
/10/
44
/12/
2.9
/237/
20
/1/

Aftershock (1990)
An alien visits Earth during World War III, learns English by absorbing a dictionary, and meets good and bad earthlings.
poster
?
40
/2/

Saving America Begins with You (2009)
In this educational and inspiring presentation, Rick Green will equip you with an optimistic, yet realistic, blueprint for how YOU/WE are the key to restoring America's values and defeating the policies threatening our freedom and liberties!
poster
?
6.5
/14/

Committee on Un-American Activities
First film by a private citizen which criticizes a Government Committee: 1930s footage of Committee Chairman Martin Dies attacking "subversives" in labor unions; the Hollywood Witch Hunts; Cold War Blacklist; & 1960 San Francisco hearings.
poster
?
50
/1/

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky (2018)
This feature length high definition documentary follows one of the Nation's most controversial yet progressive leaders, 2012 Presidential candidate and Former two-term Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson.
poster
48
?
5.5
/734/
40
/1/
50
/1/

Janice Meredith (1924)
It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington.
poster
?
6.8
/83/
60
/1/

Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States (1937)
Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States is a 1937 short directed by Edward Cahn.
poster
?
5.7
/26/
10
/1/

Fifty Years Before Your Eyes (1950)
A documentary about the major events of the first fifty years of the Twentieth Century.
poster
?
7.6
/39/
10
/1/
56
/4/

The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis (1987)
In the revealing 24 minutes of the PBS video documentary The Secret Government available for free viewing below, host Bill Moyers exposes the inner workings of a secret government much more vast that most people would ever imagine. Though originally broadcast in 1987, it is even more relevant today. Interviews with respected top military, intelligence, and government insiders reveal both the history and secret objectives of powerful groups in the hidden shadows of our government.
poster
46
?
5.1
/235/
62
/7/
37
/7/
34
/5/

The Year That Trembled (2002)
The Year That Trembled is a coming-of-age story set in 1970 in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young people facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.


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