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The Manchurian Candidate (Special Edition)
Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey
MGM (Video & DVD), 2004
Before It's Time
+ A Great Cold War Thriller
+ This is the one!
+ I love this movie. It is the finest, most awe-inspiring film I've ever seen
+ Original Manchurian Candidate
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Reds (Special 25th Aniversary Edition)
Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton
Paramount, 2006
The most nuanced, detailed, politically sophisticated movie on the Russian Revolution ever
+ One of few
+ good acting, good film.
+ Well Done Docudrama
+ A better movie now than when it was made -- we know more
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Warm Springs
Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon
HBO, 2005
Who knew?
+ A arrogant man humbled by Polio to lead a Great Nation
+ warm springs
+ Interesting Insight
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Truman
Gary Sinise, Diana Scarwid
Hbo Home Video, 2000
Humble man who did great things!
+ Interesting
+ Fine Bio-pic
+ Truman This is a Good DVD I took one star off for having no extra's
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All the King's Men
Broderick Crawford, John Ireland
Sony Pictures, 2006
LOUISIANA LONGS FOR LONG
+ More things change
+ Willie Stark is more gutsy than Bush or Clinton
+ Powerful movie
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Nixon - Collector's Edition
Joan Allen, Brian Bedford
Walt Disney Video, 2002
Nixon -- masterpiece of brilliant, flawed President
+ two generations of perspective
+ Good DVD transfer--but not anamorphic
+ Great, If You Like Horror Movies
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Seven Days in May
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas
Warner Home Video, 2000
CAESAR SALAD FOR GEN. SCOTT
+ DVD-Seven Days in May
+ 7 Days in May
+ SEVEN DAYS IN MAY
+ More Plausable Than Ever Before
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Thirteen Days [Region 2]
Shawn Driscoll, Kevin Costner
Outstanding film
+ Faked Up, But So What?
+ Excellent Movie
+ Gripping Historical Drama !
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Advise and Consent
Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton
Warner Home Video, 2005
Great political movie that hasn't dated one iota...spoilers...
+ Worth Seeing More Than Once
+ OTTO PREMINGER, OPUS 28
+ A Preminger Classic
+ "What I Did Was For The Good Of The Country:" The Political Shocker Of 1962
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Path to War
Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland
HBO Video, 2003
Very Surprising!
+ Great Item!
+ McNamara's Way In Living Color; LBJ Still Unknown
+ EERIE SIMILARITIES
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The Last Hurrah
Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter
Sony Pictures, 1999
Spence
+ Hollywood's Mayoral Politics
+ Great film with one "flaw"
+ The Last Hurrah
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All the King's Men (Special Edition)
Sean Penn, Jude Law
Sony Pictures, 2006
The Penn Is Mightier Than The Bored
+ All the King's Men
+ An all-too-real mirror held up to American politics
+ Use subtitles and you'll be happy
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Bob Roberts
Eva Amurri, Tom Atkins
Lions Gate, 2001
Bob Roberts
+ Left-wing satire of right-wing politics
+ Scathing look at politics
+ great film
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JFK - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones
Warner Home Video, 2003
In terms of pure filmmaking, this film is a masterpiece....
+ "It's Up To You"
+ Oliver Stone's masterpiece
If you jettison the politics of this movie (and Stone's reputation as a muckracker), and simply look at JFK as a film, it's arguably Oliver Stone's best film and it is absolutely rivetting. It's a masterpiece of cinemtography, editing, writing, and performances. I've only seen the initial 189 ...
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Eleanor and Franklin Double Feature (The Early Years / The White House Years)
Jane Alexander, Edward Herrmann
Hbo Home Video, 2007
Great History Lesson
+ A television landmark...at an incredible bargain price.
+ Excellent Historical Drama
+ Eleanor and Franklin
+ Entertaining and educational
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