Tag: government

  • WarGames

    High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense’s war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time…

  • Brazil

    Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and…

  • The Quiet Earth

    After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

  • Rambo: First Blood Part II

    John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he’d want to return – the jungles of Vietnam.

  • Iron Eagle

    When Doug’s father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted by himself and Doug to rescue Doug’s father after…

  • Suspect

    When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who’s deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and…

  • Knight Rider 2000

    In the future, guns are banned and criminals are frozen for the duration of their sentences. A recent spate of killings involving handguns brings Michael Knight back to fight for justice, but he insists of the help of KITT, his artificially-intelligent car from decades ago. The only problem is that KITT has been deactivated.

  • JFK

    Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

  • Blue Ice

    An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat’s wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up.

  • Short Working Day

    A dramatisation of the workers’ protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers’ Party.

  • Gunsmith Cats

    Rally Vincent and Minnie May Hopkins are just a pair of gun shop owners who do a bit of bounty hunting to make ends meet when a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms agent comes to them. Using the threat of arresting them for their lack of a retail license for their merchandise and the resulting…

  • Nixon

    A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.

  • The Contender

    The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agendas explode into a battle for power.

  • Wag the Dog

    During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President’s adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.

  • Conspiracy Theory

    A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.

  • Absolute Power

    A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while holding evidence that could convict the President.

  • The X-Files

    Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI’s X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.

  • In the Time of the Butterflies

    Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic’s Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government’s troops.

  • American Meltdown

    The telefilm centers on a present-day nuclear plant disaster and its aftermath.

  • Fahrenheit 9/11

    Michael Moore’s view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  • Team America: World Police

    When North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il orchestrates a global terrorist plot, it’s up to the heavily armed, highly specialized Team America unit to stop his dastardly scheme. The group, which has recruited troubled Broadway actor Gary Johnston, not only has to face off against Jong-il, but they must also contend with the Film Actors Guild,…