Top 5 Films that Uncover Political Scandal

With Active Measures now available on iTunes, we take a look at 5 amazing films that uncover political scandals.

Do you agree with our list? Do you think we have missed one or which ones should not have been on our list?

Active Measures (2019)

Director:
Jack Bryan
Starring:
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Jeremy Bash

Russian president Vladimir Putin attacks the 2016 American presidential election in collaboration with the Trump campaign

All the President’s Men (1976)

Director:
Alan J. Pakula
Starring:
Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden

“The Washington Post” reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.

Scandal (1989)

Director:
Michael Canton-Jones
Starring:
John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda

Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.

In the Name of the Father (1993)

Director:
Jim Sheridan
Starring:
Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Alison Crosbie

A man’s coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.

Frost/Nixon (2008)

Director:
Ron Howard
Starring:
Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon

A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.