Some of Hollywood's best takes on politics
Drama, comedy, biopic, history, and satire - filmmakers have taken many approaches to the portrayal of public affairs
This 1968 file image shows American actress Katharine Hepburn, right, as she plays the part of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine with co-star Peter O'Toole as King Henry II of England, in the film The Lion In Winter.Anonymous/The Associated Press
Robert Redford in Three Days of The Condor (1975).
Sean Penn in All the King's Men.Kerry Hayes
Anthony Hopkins as Richard Nixon and James Woods as H.R. Haldeman in Nixon (1995).
Michael Douglas stars as a widowed President who falls in love with Annette Bening, an environmental lobbyist, in the Castle Rock film, The American President (1995).The Canadian Press
Jimmy Stewart in the Frank Capra classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS/The New York Times
A scene from Election (1999), a Paramount Pictures production, starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick.
Laurence Harvey as the brainwashed assassin Raymond Shaw in John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate (1962).
Burt Lancaster as General James Mattoon Scott and Kirk Douglas as Colonel Jiggs Casey in John Frankenheimer’s Seven Days in May (1964).
Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro in Barry Levinson’s Wag the Dog (1997).
Tim Robbins in Bob Roberts (1992).
George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964).
Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards, Jack Warden and Martin Balsam in Alan J. Pakula’s All The President’s Men (1976).The Associated Press