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100 Best Washington Movies Ever

1.MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
An idealistic Boy Rangers leader triumphs over corruption.

2.ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976)
Hollywood’s take on Watergate

3.WAG THEDOG (1997)
A Hollywood producer fakes a war
to boost the President’s ratings.

4.ST ELMOS FIRE (1985)
The Brat Pack moves to Georgetown.

5.CITIZEN KANE (1941)
A media mogul dabbles in politics.

6.THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (1995)
The President romances a lobbyist.

7.THANK YOU FOR SMOKING (2005)
A lobbyist spins for Big Tobacco.

8.CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR (2007)
Playboy Congressman Charlie Wilson covertlyfunds anti-Russian rebellion in Afghanistan.

9.THE EXORCIST (1973)
Demonic possession on M Street.

10.DR STRANGELOVE OR:HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964)
An insane General jump starts a nuclear holocaust.

11. FAHRENHEIT 9/11 (2004)
Someone regrets giving Michael Moore that My Pet Goat footage.
12.APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
TheVietnam nightmare, along with the Iraq quagmire, shadow today’s politics.

13.NIXON(1995)
The troubled President behind Watergate.

14.AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (2006)
Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary on the threat of global warming.

15.TRAFFIC (2000)
A conservative Drug Czar sees his daughter battle addiction.

16.THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)
A Senate committee tries (and fails) to indict the Corleone clan.

17.JFK(1991)
A New Orleans district attorney uncovers a massive conspiracy behind JFK’s assassination.

18.ADVISE AND CONSENT (1962)
A controversial candidate for Secretary of State
19.ABSOLUTE POWER(1997)
During a break-in, a thief sees the President cover up his mistress’ s murder.

20.BROADCAST NEWS (1987)
This romantic comedy plays journalists’ egos for laughs.

21.THE PELICANBRIEF (1993)
Two Supreme Court Justices are murdered

.22. THE INSIDER (1999)
Blowing the whistle on Big Tobacco.
23. BEING THERE (1979)
Politicians confuse a gardner’s plant-lore with profoundeconomic insight.

24. THE WAR OF THE ROSES (1989)
An estranged power-couple plots against each other.

25. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE(1962)
Communists conspire to put a brainwashed soldier in the White House.

26. THE CONTENDER (2000)
A female Senator is the Vice Presidential nominee.

27.
ARLINGTON ROAD (1999)
A Terrorism Studies professor suspects his neighbors.

28. THE GOOD SHEPHERD (2006)
The film follows the development of the C.I.A.

29. BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE (2002)
Michael Moore connects the Columbine massacre to American gun culture.

30. THE MAN WITH ONE REDSHOE (1985)
The CIA wrongfully targets a man wearing mismatched shoes.

31. WEDDING CRASHERS (2005)
Two buddies crashWashington-area weddings.

32. ENRON THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM (2005)
A look at an infamous corporate crime and the company led by Kenneth Lay.

 



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