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In October, 1962, U-2 surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing nuclear weapons in Cuba. These weapons have the capability of wiping out most of the Eastern and Southern United States in minutes if they become operational. President John F. Kennedy and his advisor …s must come up with a plan of action against the Soviets. Kennedy is determined to show that he is strong enough to stand up to the threat, and the Pentagon advises U.S. military strikes against Cuba--which could lead the way to another U.S. invasion of the island. However, Kennedy is reluctant to follow through, because a U.S. invasion could cause the Soviets to retaliate in Europe. A nuclear showdown appears to be almost inevitable. Can it be prevented? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | u.s. militaryu.s. politicsamerican politicsmilitarypolitics |
| Locations: | airplane shot downhelicopternew york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Period: | year 19621960s |
| Story: | cuban missile crisisnaval blockadepolitical crisisu.s. vice presidentvice presidentamerican presidentu.s. presidentmilitary intelligencesoviet militarypower politicssoviet american relationsreference to world war threeu.s. soviet relationspresidential advisorjoint chiefs of staff …u.s. secretary of statekennedy administrationamerican intelligencenikita khrushchevaverting disasteru.s. attorney generalpresidential addressboston accentu.s. ambassadorsoviet embassyatomic weaponthe white housenumber 13 in titlespy planewhite house washington d.c.intelligence servicesoviet erasecretary of defenseattorney generalairforce onereconnaissancesecretary of stateblack and white segues into colorarmy generalcharacter appears on tvkennedy familyblockademushroom clouddiplomacynuclear threatnuclear weaponscold war eratwo brotherspentagonoval officetimes square manhattan new york citydiplomatadmiralriskstatue of liberty new york cityunited nationscrisisirish americanwilhelm screamlyingcubablack and white sceneaviationtensionwhite houselifting someone into the airflyingmissilecold warwashington d.c.soviet unionpresidentdangermanhattan new york citybased on bookbased on true storyphotographnumber in titletwo word title (See All) |
Jackie is a portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then 'Jacqueline Kennedy (I)' (qv). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary d …ignity and poise, here we see a portrait of the First Lady as she fights to establish her husband's legacy and the world of "Camelot" that she created and loved so well. (Read More)
| Themes: | u.s. politicsamerican politicspolitics |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | cuban missile crisisu.s. vice presidentvice presidentamerican presidentu.s. presidentkennedy administrationthe white housekennedy familyoval officeblack and white scenewhite housewashington d.c.president |
Soviets create a new nuclear submarine that runs silent due to a revolutionary propulsion system. Russian sub captain defects, goal of taking it to the U.S.A. to prevent the Russians from using the sub to wreak nuclear (missile) war against the U.S. Lots of plot turns and twists in this high-tech th …riller. (Read More)
| Themes: | u.s. militarymilitarypolitics |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Story: | soviet militarysoviet american relationsu.s. soviet relationsnuclear weaponscold war erarisklifting someone into the airmissilecold warwashington d.c.soviet uniondanger |
Oliver Stone's biographical take on the life of George W. Bush, one of the most controversial presidents in USA history, chronicling from his wild and carefree days in college, to his military service, to his governorship of Texas and role in the oil business, his 2000 candidacy for president, his f …irst turbulent four years, and his 2004 re-election campaign. (Read More)
| Themes: | militarypolitics |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | u.s. vice presidentvice presidentamerican presidentu.s. presidentoval officewashington d.c.president |
Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, wit …h the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country. (Read More)
| Themes: | militarypolitics |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Story: | u.s. vice presidentvice presidentamerican presidentu.s. presidentairforce onenuclear threatpentagonoval officewhite housemissilewashington d.c.president |
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential Secret Service Agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As our national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced t …o rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster. (Read More)
| Themes: | militarypolitics |
| Locations: | airplane shot downhelicopter |
| Characters: | father son relationship |
| Story: | u.s. vice presidentvice presidentamerican presidentu.s. presidentsecretary of defensenuclear threatpentagonoval officewhite housemissilewashington d.c.president |
Journalist Jenny Lerner is assigned to look into the background of Secretary Alan Rittenhouse who abruptly resigned from government citing his wife's ill health. She learns from his secretary that Rittenhouse was having an affair with someone named Ellie but when she confronts him, his strange react …ion leads her to reconsider her story. In fact, a comet, discovered the previous year by high school student Leo Biederman and astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, is on a collision course with the Earth, an Extinction Level Event. A joint US-Russian team is sent to destroy the comet but should it fail, special measures are to be put in place to secure the future of mankind. As the space mission progresses, many individuals deal with their fears and ponder their future. (Read More)
| Themes: | military |
| Locations: | helicopternew york city |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentnuclear weaponstimes square manhattan new york citystatue of liberty new york citywhite houselifting someone into the airwashington d.c.presidentmanhattan new york city |
'Tom Wolfe (I)' (qv)'s book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by 'Chuck Yeager' (qv) to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to s …elect people to be in it. Thrilling, funny, charming and electrifying all at once. (Read More)
| Themes: | military |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | u.s. vice presidentu.s. presidentaviationwhite housecold warwashington d.c.soviet unionbased on book |
The President of the USA goes to Moscow and gives a stirring speech outlining the USA's new "Zero-tolerance" policy with respect to terrorism. On the flight home, terrorists take over Air Force One (the President's official plane) and take the passengers (including his wife and daughter) hostage. Th …e terrorists plan to execute one hostage every half-hour unless/until their demands are met. However, the President is a former Medal of Honor winner, so the terrorists may be in for a surprise... (Read More)
| Themes: | politics |
| Story: | u.s. vice presidentvice presidentamerican presidentu.s. presidentu.s. attorney generalsecretary of defenseairforce onesecretary of statediplomacyaviationwhite housemissilepresidentnumber in title |
Tom Farrell is a navy officer who gets posted at the Pentagon and is to report to the secretary of defense David Brice. He starts an affair with Susan Atwell not knowing that she is Brice's mistress. When Susan is found dead, Tom is assigned to the case of finding the killer who is believed to be a …KGB mole! Tom could soon become a suspect when a Polaroid negative of him was found at Susan's place. He now has only a few hours to find the killer before the computer regenerates the photo. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | militarypolitics |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentsecretary of defensecold war erapentagonwhite houselifting someone into the aircold warwashington d.c.presidentdangerphotograph |
In the cold war, a lawyer, James B. Donovan is recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense negotiation mission to release and exchange a CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers. The pilot was arrested alive after his plane was shot down by the Soviet Union during a mission and stays in the co …mpany of a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel, who was arrested for espionage in the US. (Read More)
| Themes: | politics |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | soviet embassyspy planeirish americanmissilecold warwashington d.c.soviet unionbased on bookbased on true storyphotograph |
Terrorists take over a 747 bound from Athens to Washington D.C., supposedly to effect the release of their leader. Intelligence expert David Grant suspects another reason and convinces the military that the 'plane should not be allowed to enter U.S. airspace. An assault mission is devised, using a s …pecially equipped 'plane designed for mid-air crew transfers, and Grant finds himself aboard the 747 with a team of military anti-terrorists who have to defuse a bomb and overpower the terrorists. (Read More)
| Themes: | militarypolitics |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Story: | u.s. presidentu.s. secretary of statesecretary of defensesecretary of stateblack and white sceneaviationwashington d.c.president |
On November 22, 1963, president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby, supposedly avenging the president's death. An investigation concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby acted alone in their respective crimes …, but Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison is skeptical. Assembling a trusted group of people, Garrison conducts his own investigation, bringing about backlash from powerful government and political figures. (Read More)
| Themes: | militarypolitics |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentcubawashington d.c.presidentbased on book |
In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter 'Bob Woodward (I)' (qv) covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of names and addresses of Republican fund o …rganizers on the accused further arouses his suspicions. The editor of the Post is prepared to run with the story and assigns Woodward and 'Carl Bernstein (I)' (qv) to it. They find the trail leading higher and higher in the Republican Party, and eventually into the White House itself. (Read More)
| Themes: | american politicspolitics |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentwhite housewashington d.c.presidentbased on bookbased on true story |
As Paleoclimatologist named Jack Hall is in Antartica, he discovers that a huge ice sheet has sheared off. But what he does not know is that this event will trigger a massive climate shift that will affect the world population. Meanwhile, his son Sam is with friends in New York to attend an event. T …here they discover that it has been raining non-stop for the past 3 days, and after a series of weather-related disasters begin to occur over the world, everybody realizes the world is entering a new Ice Age and the world population begins trying to evacuate to the warmer climates of the south. Jack makes a daring attempt to rescue his son and his friends who are stuck in New York and who have managed to survive not only a massive wave but also freezing cold temperatures that could possibly kill them. (Read More)
| Themes: | military |
| Locations: | helicopternew york city |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | u.s. vice presidentvice presidentamerican presidentu.s. presidentstatue of liberty new york citywashington d.c.presidentmanhattan new york city |
The unforgettable true story chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rig …hts Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay's "Selma" tells the story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history. (Read More)
| Themes: | u.s. politicspolitics |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentwhite house washington d.c.blockadepresidentbased on true story |
Andrew Shepherd is approaching the end of his first term as President of the United States. He's a widower with a young daughter and has proved to be popular with the public. His election seems assured. That is until he meets Sydney Ellen Wade, a paid political activist working for an environmental …lobby group. He's immediately smitten with her and after several amusing attempts, they finally manage to go on a date (which happens to be a State dinner for the visiting President of France). His relationship with Wade opens the door for his prime political opponent, Senator Bob Rumson, to launch an attack on the President's character, something he could not do in the previous election as Shepherd's wife had only recently died. (Read More)
| Themes: | politics |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentoval officewhite housewashington d.c.president |
In 1865, as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the United States. However, his task is a race against time, for peace may come at any time, … and if it comes before the amendment is passed, the returning southern states will stop it before it can become law. Lincoln must, by almost any means possible, obtain enough votes from a recalcitrant Congress before peace arrives and it is too late. Yet the president is torn, as an early peace would save thousands of lives. As the nation confronts its conscience over the freedom of its entire population, Lincoln faces his own crisis of conscience -- end slavery or end the war. (Read More)
| Themes: | politics |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentcrisiswhite housewashington d.c.presidentbased on book |
Director Oliver Stone's exploration of former president Richard Nixon's strict Quaker upbringing, his nascent political strivings in law school, and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife, Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early, in the vicious campaign against Helen G …ahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and envied John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election, followed by the loss of the 1962 California gubernatorial race, seem to signal the end of his career. Yet, although wholly lacking in charisma, Nixon remains a brilliant political operator, seizing the opportunity provided by the backlash against the antiwar movement to take the presidency in 1968. It is only when safely in office, running far ahead in the polls for the 1972 presidential election, that his growing paranoia comes to full flower, triggering the Watergate scandal. (Read More)
| Themes: | politics |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentoval officewashington d.c.president |
It is just another day at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a few astronauts were repairing a satellite until, out of nowhere, a series of asteroids came crashing into the shuttle, destroying it. These asteroids also decimated New York soon thereafter. Then, NASA discovered t …hat there is an asteroid roughly the size of Texas heading towards the Earth, and when it does hit the Earth, the planet itself and all of its inhabitants will be obliterated, worse, the asteroid will hit the Earth in 18 days. Unfortunately, NASA's plans to destroy the asteroid are irrelevant. That is when the U.S. military decides to use a nuclear warhead to blow the asteroid to pieces. Then, scientists decide to blow the asteroid with the warhead inside the asteroid itself. The only man to do it, is an oil driller named Harry Stamper and his group of misfit drillers and geologists. As he and his drill team prepare for space excavation, the asteroid is still heading towards the Earth. When the crew are launched into outer space, they are determined to destroy this asteroid. (Read More)
| Themes: | military |
| Locations: | helicopternew york city |
| Characters: | father son relationship |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentpresidential addressairforce onenuclear weaponspentagonwashington d.c.presidentmanhattan new york city |
After the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances, all leaders of the Western world must attend his funeral. But what starts out as the most protected event on earth, turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders and unleash a terrifying vision of t …he future. The President of the United States, his formidable secret service head and a British MI-6 agent who trusts no one are the only people that have any hope of stopping it. (Read More)
| Themes: | militarypolitics |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Story: | u.s. vice presidentvice presidentamerican presidentu.s. presidenttimes square manhattan new york citywhite housemissilewashington d.c.president |
Writer Peter Morgan's legendary battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make, in the story of the historic encounter that changed both their lives. 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 (as well as a $600,000 fee). Likewise, Frost's team harbored doubts about their boss' ability to hold his own. But as cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted. (Read More)
| Themes: | american politicspolitics |
| Locations: | helicopternew york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentwhite house washington d.c.washington d.c.presidentmanhattan new york cityphotographtwo word title |
In the early 1950's, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator 'Joseph McCarthy (II)' (qv) of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter 'Edward R. Murrow' (qv) and his producer 'Fred W. Friendly' (qv) decided to take a stand and challenge M …cCarthy and expose him for the fear monger he was. However, their actions took a great personal toll on both men, but they stood by their convictions and helped to bring down one of the most controversial senators in American history. (Read More)
| Themes: | u.s. militaryamerican politicspolitics |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | u.s. attorney generalcold war erapentagoncold warwashington d.c.soviet unionphotograph |
After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisers contacts a top Hollywood producer in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass medi …a. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | military |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentwhite housewashington d.c.presidentbased on book |
Following up on 'Bowling for Columbine', film-maker Michael Moore provides deep and though-provoking insights on the American security system, the level of paranoia, fear, uncertainty, false values and patriotism, which all combined together to set a stage for George W. Bush to launch a war on Iraq …instead of focusing on getting the real culprit(s) behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This documentary also focuses on how some Saudis were safely and secretly flown out of America while planes were ostensibly grounded after the attacks. Archived film footage, candid interviews with politicians, and an overall waste of public funds for a war that was initiated on false pretension to wit: a weapon of mass distraction - to take the focus away from the real enemy and get Americans glued to their TV sets to watch innocent Iraqis and Afghans getting killed. And a war that would eventually alienate the U.S.A. and it's citizens from almost every country on Earth. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | u.s. militaryamerican politicsmilitarypolitics |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentsecretary of statepresidentmanhattan new york citynumber in title |
Evelyn Salt is a CIA agent and highly respected by all, including her boss, Ted Winter. Out of the blue, a Russian spy walks into their offices and offers a vital piece of information: the President of Russia will be assassinated during his forthcoming visit to New York City to attend the funeral of … the recently deceased U.S. Vice President. The name of the assassin: Evelyn Salt. Concerned about the safety of her husband, who she cannot contact, she goes on the run. Winter refuses to accept that she is a mole or a double agent but her actions begin to raise doubts. Just who is Evelyn Salt and what is she planning? (Read More)
| Themes: | politics |
| Locations: | helicopternew york city |
| Story: | vice presidentu.s. presidentnuclear threatstatue of liberty new york citywhite housecold warwashington d.c.soviet unionmanhattan new york cityphotograph |
In 2079, in Washington, the ex-CIA Operative Snow is brutally interrogated, accused of treason against the United States. The chief of the secret service Scott Langral believes that he shot the agent Frank in a hotel room. Meanwhile, the idealistic daughter of the president of the USA, Emilie Warnoc …k, is visiting MS One, a maximum security prison in outer space expecting to find evidence that the prisoners are actually guinea pigs of a huge corporation. When one of her bodyguards loses a hidden pistol to the dangerous prisoner Hydell, he subdues the staff in the central control room and releases the prisoners, including his brother Alex who becomes the leader of the riot. Now the veteran agent Harry Shaw offers freedom to Snow if he succeeds in rescuing the president's daughter. But the idealistic Emilie does not want to leave MS-One without the hostages. (Read More)
| Locations: | helicopternew york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationship |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentwilhelm screamwhite housemissilewashington d.c.president |
Jack Ryan is back and this time the bad guys are in his own government. When Admiral James Greer becomes sick with cancer, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. Almost before he can draw a breath in his new position, one of the president's closest friends and his family are m …urdered in their sleep by what appears to by drug cartels. Ryan is called in to investigate, but unknown to him the CIA has already sent a secret field operative to lead an illegal paramilitary force in Colombia against cartels. Things get even more complicated when his team is set up and he loses an agent in the field and a friend of his wife's, who was the murdered agent's secretary, is murdered that same day. Ryan must then risk not only his career, but his life to expose the truth behind the mystery. (Read More)
| Themes: | militarypolitics |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Characters: | father son relationship |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentoval officeadmiralriskwhite housewashington d.c.danger |
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite …Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow. (Read More)
| Themes: | american politicsmilitarypolitics |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Story: | soviet militarycold war eracold warwashington d.c.presidentbased on true story |
Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. T …here, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with her addictions and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way. (Read More)
| Characters: | father son relationship |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentthe white housewhite housewashington d.c.presidentbased on true storytwo word title |
Pearl Harbor is a classic tale of romance set during a war that complicates everything. It all starts when childhood friends Rafe and Danny become Army Air Corps pilots and meet Evelyn, a Navy nurse. Rafe falls head over heels and next thing you know Evelyn and Rafe are hooking up. Then Rafe volunte …ers to go fight in Britain and Evelyn and Danny get transferred to Pearl Harbor. While Rafe is off fighting everything gets completely whack and next thing you know everybody is in the middle of an air raid we now know as "Pearl Harbor." (Read More)
| Themes: | u.s. militarymilitary |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentadmiralaviationpresidentphotograph |
Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.
| Themes: | politics |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | u.s. vice presidentu.s. presidentwhite house washington d.c.united nationswashington d.c.based on true storyphotographtwo word title |
Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recru …itment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's narration as he closes in on the leak. (Read More)
| Themes: | politics |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Period: | year 19621960s |
| Story: | cuban missile crisisu.s. presidentcubacold warwashington d.c. |
In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in d …oing so discover a deeper and far more diabolical plot. (Read More)
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | mother son relationship |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentlifting someone into the airflyingcold warpresidentmanhattan new york cityphotograph |
Based on the novel by David Baldacci, Absolute Power is about the ruthlessness of people in power. The President believes that everything he does is beyond reproach, including an affair or two. That leads to murder and everyone around him is involved. There is only one witness, a thief named Luther …Whitney. They are sure he'll talk, but when? The Secret Service is determined to keep him quiet, but catching a thief isn't always easy. (Read More)
| Themes: | politics |
| Story: | u.s. presidentwhite house washington d.c.character appears on tvwhite housewashington d.c.presidentbased on bookphotographtwo word title |
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a joint American- Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to discover what went wrong with the U.S.S. Discovery against a backdrop of growing global tensions. Among the mysteries the expedition must explain are the appearance of a huge black monolith in Jupiter' …s orbit and the fate of H.A.L., the Discovery's sentient computer. Based on a novel written by Arthur C. Clarke. (Read More)
| Themes: | politics |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | the white housewhite housecold warwashington d.c.soviet uniondangerphotographnumber in title |
The G.I. Joe team is framed for crimes against the country by Zartan, disguised as the President, and Cobra Commander has all the world leaders under his influence, with their advanced warheads headed towards innocent populaces around the world. Outnumbered and outgunned, the surviving team members …form a plan with their original leader, General Joseph Colton, to rescue the President and face off Cobra Commander, his accomplices and the world leaders. (Read More)
| Themes: | military |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentnuclear threatpentagonwhite housemissilewashington d.c.president |
A 25 year old female White House staffer, Carla Town, is murdered in the White House. D.C. homicide detective Regis is assigned to investigate, only to find evidence suppressed by the Secret Service. After suspecting a cover-up, Regis convinces Secret Service Agent Nina Chance to assist in uncoverin …g the truth. The President's son Kyle Neil is a prime suspect, as he was having sex with Carla within an hour of her murder. While the investigation ensues, the President, Jack Neil, is holding meetings with top military personnel regarding North Korea's holding 23 U.S. military personnel hostage. Regis confronts top Secret Service Agent Spikings at his home shortly after Spikings returns with evidence leading to the murder. The home is attacked and Spikings is killed, but Regis makes it out alive with Agent Chance's assistance, and with the evidence tape. White House adviser Jordan presents false evidence to the President that his son killed Carla and forces the President to say he will announce his resignation at 10 p.m. the following day. Regis and Chance break into the White House via underground tunnels, stop the President from resigning, and arrest Jordan for conspiracy to murder. Jordan pulls a gun, injures Agent Chance, and is killed by multiple Secret Service agents. A news briefing states there were false rumors of the President resigning, and also falsely state that Agent Spikings was killed in the gunfire exchange between Jordan and the Secret Service. (Read More)
| Themes: | militarypolitics |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentwhite housewashington d.c.presidentphotographnumber in title |
Jerry Shaw is an amiable slacker with an over-achieving twin brother. After his twin dies in an accident, strange things happen to Jerry at a dizzying pace: a fortune shows up in his bank account, weapons are delivered to his flat, and a voice on his cell phone tells him the police are on their way. … Jerry follows the voice's instructions, and soon he and a woman he's never met are racing through the city, on to a plane, and eventually to the Pentagon, chased by the FBI. She is Rachel Holloman, a single mom; the voice has threatened her son's death if she doesn't cooperate. The voice seems to know everything. Who is behind it, what is being planned, and why Jerry and Rachel? (Read More)
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | u.s. presidentsecretary of defensepentagonmissilewashington d.c.presidenttwo word title |
Frank Horrigan is a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as a hand-picked agent by President Kennedy, he became one of the few agents to have lost a President to an assassin when Kennedy died. Now, former CIA assassin Mitch Leary is stalking the current President, … who is running for re-election. Mitch has spent long hours studying Horrigan, and he taunts Horrigan, telling him of his plans to kill the President. Leary plans to kill the president because Leary feels betrayed by the government -- Leary was removed from the CIA, and the CIA is now trying to have him killed. After talking to Leary, Horrigan makes sure he is assigned to presidential protection duty, working with fellow secret service agent Lilly Raines. Horrigan has no intention of failing his President this time around, and he's more than willing to take a bullet. White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent refuses to alter the President's itinerary, while Horrigan's boss, Secret Service Director Sam Campagna, is supportive of Horrigan. As the election gets closer, Horrigan begins to doubt his own abilities, especially when Horrigan's colleague Al D'Andrea is killed by Leary. But Horrigan may be the only one who can stop Leary. (Read More)
| Themes: | politics |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentairforce onetensionwhite housewashington d.c.presidentphotograph |
During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.
| Themes: | politics |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | mother son relationship |
| Period: | year 19621960s |
| Story: | cold war eracold warbased on true storytwo word title |
Serpico is a cop in the 1960s-early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues, he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico, and he's in constant danger of being placed in life threatening positions by his "partners". Nothing seems to …get done even when he goes to the highest of authorities. Despite the dangers he finds himself in, he still refuses to 'go with the flow', in the hope that one day, the truth will be known. (Read More)
| Themes: | politics |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | irish americandangermanhattan new york citybased on book |
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) …and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider. (Read More)
| Themes: | politics |
| Story: | u.s. presidentairforce onediplomatwhite housewashington d.c.based on book |
Agent Augustus Gibbons has selected an imprisoned former US Navy SEAL Darius Stone, a new agent in the XXX program, travels to Washington D.C., where they track a splinter faction of the U.S. military that attempts to overthrow the U.S. government and assassinate the President, led by Secretary of D …efense and former 4-Star General George Deckert, Stone's former commanding officer whom he once led a mutiny against. But he's been targeted for assassination by a radical splinter group of dissenters deep within the United States government. The new XXX agent must uncover the insurgents from within. It is the nation's only hope to stop the first coup d'etat in American history. (Read More)
| Themes: | militarypolitics |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Story: | u.s. presidentsecretary of defensepentagonwhite housewashington d.c.president |
Now that Dom and Letty are on their honeymoon and Brian and Mia have retired from the game-and the rest of the crew has been exonerated-the globetrotting team has found a semblance of a normal life. But when a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime he can't seem to escape and a betraya …l of those closest to him, they will face trials that will test them as never before. From the shores of Cuba and the streets of New York City to the icy plains off the arctic Barents Sea, the elite force will crisscross the globe to stop an anarchist from unleashing chaos on the world's stage... and to bring home the man who made them a family. (Read More)
| Locations: | helicopternew york city |
| Characters: | brother brother relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | nuclear threattimes square manhattan new york citystatue of liberty new york cityirish americancubamissiledangermanhattan new york city |
This film tells the true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass (Christensen), who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at "The New Republic" for three years (1995-1998), where 27 of his 41 published stories were either partially or co …mpletely made up. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down... (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | politics |
| Characters: | brother brother relationship |
| Story: | airforce oneoval officelyingwashington d.c.based on true storyphotographtwo word title |
While Ben Gates is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from Booth's diary, a man by the name of Mitch Wilkinson stands up and presents a missing page of John Wilkes Booth's diary. Thomas Gates, Ben's great-grandfather, is mentioned on the page. It shows that B …en's great-grandfather was a co-conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's murder. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail Chase, and Riley Poole to Buckingham Palace (which they break into). They discover a plank that has early Native American writing on it. The plank has only one symbol that Patrick Gates can identify. The symbol is Cibola (see-bowl-uh) meaning the City of Gold. In order to define the rest they have to go to Ben's mother, Patrick's divorced wife. After 32 years it brings back old arguments. After that the other clue is in the President's desk in the Oval Office in the White House (which Ben and Abigail sneak into) to discover that the clue lies in The President's Book. But in order to see the book, their choice is either get elected president or kidnap the President of the United States. Which do they choose? It's obvious. With Wilkinson close on their tail, they find the book in the Library of Congress. The conspiracy then crosses to Mount Rushmore where the clue was on the hills, but (according to the Book) President Calvin Coolidge had the faces carved in so no one can find the City of Gold. When they get there they find out that they must work with … (Read More)
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | american presidentu.s. presidentoval officestatue of liberty new york citywhite housewashington d.c.presidentphotograph |
Libya, 2012. At an unofficial CIA base in Benghazi a group of ex-military contractors are providing security. In the aftermath of Gaddafi's downfall a power vacuum exists and the climate is volatile. Military weapons are freely available. The US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, makes a visit to t …he area, staying in a compound near the CIA base. On the night of 11 September, 2012, the Ambassador's compound is attacked by hordes of heavily armed locals. The only forces willing and able to defend it are six CIA contractors. (Read More)
| Themes: | militarypolitics |
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Story: | u.s. ambassadorpentagonwhite housewashington d.c.dangerbased on bookbased on true storyphotographnumber in title |
This dramatic retelling of the Pearl Harbor attack details everything in the days that led up to that tragic moment in American history. As United States and Japanese relations strain over the U.S. embargo of raw materials, Air Staff Officer Minoru Genda (Tatsuya Mihashi) plans the preemptive strike … against the United States. Although American intelligence agencies intercept Japanese communications hinting at the attack, they are unwilling to believe such a strike could ever occur on U.S. soil. (Read More)
| Locations: | airplane shot down |
| Story: | u.s. presidentmilitary intelligenceadmiralwashington d.c. |
After the abduction by the US military of an Islamic religious leader, New York City becomes the target of escalating terrorist attacks. Anthony Hubbard, the head of the FBI's Counter-Terrorism Task Force in New York, teams up with CIA operative Elise Kraft to hunt down the terrorist cells responsib …le for the attacks. As the bombings continue, the US government responds by declaring martial law, sending US troops, led by Gen. Devereaux, into the streets of New York City. (Read More)
| Themes: | militarypolitics |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | father son relationship |
| Story: | u.s. presidentpresidentmanhattan new york city |
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