Movies: U s congress

  • 2006
    Idiocracy

    Idiocracy (2006)

    Idiocracy

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    To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civiliz...

    Idiocracy
  • 1996
    Striptease

    Striptease (1996)

    Striptease

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    Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she'll have to take it all off. Erin strips to conquer, but she ...

    Striptease
  • 2004
    The Aviator

    The Aviator (2004)

    The Aviator

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    A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsi...

    The Aviator
  • 2004
    The Manchurian Candidate

    The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

    The Manchurian Candidate

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    Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him bei...

    The Manchurian Candidate
  • 2009
    State of Play

    State of Play (2009)

    State of Play

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    When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend....

    State of Play
  • 2017
    LBJ

    LBJ (2017)

    LBJ

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    The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House....

    LBJ
  • 2019
    Knock Down the House

    Knock Down the House (2019)

    Knock Down the House

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    In 2018, a young bartender in the Bronx, a coal miner’s daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada and a registered nurse in Missouri join a movement of insurgent candidates challenging powerful incumbents in Congress. Without political e...

    Knock Down the House
  • 1989
    The Congress

    The Congress (1989)

    The Congress

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    For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country's most important and least understood institutions. In this elegant, thoughtful and often touching portrait, Ken Burns explores the history and promise of this unique American inst...

    The Congress
  • 1985
    Broken Rainbow

    Broken Rainbow (1985)

    Broken Rainbow

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    Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona....

    Broken Rainbow
  • 1941
    Washington Melodrama

    Washington Melodrama (1941)

    Washington Melodrama

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    An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder....

    Washington Melodrama
  • 1955
    Davy Crockett Goes to Congress

    Davy Crockett Goes to Congress (1955)

    Davy Crockett Goes to Congress

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    The second of five programs about Davy Crockett involves him being bored with life, so he and Georgie plan to resettle their families and file their claims. In town, Davy wins a gunfight against the town bully, Big Foot Mason, and, as a result, he be...

    Davy Crockett Goes to Congress
  • 2008
    Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority

    Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority (2008)

    Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority

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    In 1965, Patsy Takemoto Mink became the first woman of color in the United States Congress. Seven years later, she ran for the US presidency and was the driving force behind Title IX, the landmark legislation that transformed women’s opportunities in...

    Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority
  • 2022
    MINK!

    MINK! (2022)

    MINK!

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    Told by her daughter Wendy, MINK! chronicles the remarkable Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Japanese American from Hawai'i who became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress, on her harrowing mission to co-author and defend Title IX, the law tha...

    MINK!
  • 2021
    Storming the Capitol: The Inside Story

    Storming the Capitol: The Inside Story (2021)

    Storming the Capitol: The Inside Story

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    Captures the incident of January 6, 2021, when scores of Trump supporters clashed with police, interrupting a constitutional process by Congress to affirm the victory of the then President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the ele...

    Storming the Capitol: The Inside Story
  • 1947
    The Powers of Congress

    The Powers of Congress (1947)

    The Powers of Congress

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    Mr. Williams drops off to sleep for a few minutes to find himself confronted with a world in which Congress has been suspended and federal authority dissolved....

    The Powers of Congress