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A drama that chronicles the scandalous implosion of Senator John Edwards' 2008 run to be the Democratic presidential candidate.
The plot focuses on British aid worker Emma McCune, who travels to Sudan and ends up marrying a local warlord and supporting wholeheartedly his bloody bid to take over the southern part of the county.
Traces GOP operative Allen Raymond’s downfall following a campaign to jam phone lines at Democratic Party headquarters in an effort to swing a 2002 Senate election in New Hampshire.
A politician gets caught in an affair. With his reputation in tatters, the politician retreats to his hometown to lick his wounds, repair relationships and confront his past.
During the height of the Watergate scandal, rising star Hillary Rodham is the youngest lawyer chosen for the House Judiciary Committee to Impeach Nixon, but she soon finds herself forced to choose between a destined path to the White House and her unresolved feelings for Bill Clinton, her former boyfriend who now teaches law in Arkansas.
Described as a being in the vein of Carlos.
A political thriller involving a journalist and a group of extremists in modern-day Jerusalem.
Set over 24 hours inside of 10 Downing Street.
A counterterrorism adviser to the past three presidents charges that the Bush administration prioritized Iraq above threats from al Qaeda before and after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Texas senator Wendy Davis' 11-hour filibuster helps stall an anti-abortion bill in the Texas state house.
Inspired by political and personal imbroglios of Democratic presidential nominee John Edwards – with a serial killer thrown in.
The story follows a young American expatriate in France whose translating job for a shadowy powerbroker draws him into violent political intrigue, corruption and murder.
A group of Warsaw Pact spies try to infiltrate the Vatican in the late 1970s in reaction to the Pope's support of the Solidarity movement in Poland and his ties to the CIA.
American intelligence specialist Reality Leigh Winner is the first to expose Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. She is arrested in 2017 for removing confidential documents from the government and feeding them to the press In 2018; Winner is sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison.
Two friends become bitter rivals for the presidential election, which is won by computer fraud.
Described as a contemporary political drama.
A junior U.S. senator comes to believe that the president is mentally unbalanced and sliding into paranoia amid escalating tensions with the Soviet Union.
The story of Shirley Chisholm, a U.S. Representative who was both the first woman and the first person of color to seek a major American political party’s nomination for President.
After 9/11, Mitchell Hundred, a man with extraordinary superpowers, realizes he can be of better service to humanity by becoming a politician, and decides to become the mayor of New York. Hundred deals with a threatened political career when the source of his powers returns to claim its debt.