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1) Vice
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Dick Cheney served as the Vice President for the United State's 43rd president George W. Bush. Prior to that, Cheney spent years moving up the ranks in terms of his political career, and ultimately oversaw 1991's Operation Desert Storm. During the eight years he spent in office as VP, Cheney became known as one of the most powerful Vice Presidents in the history of the country. An examination of Dick Cheney's rise to power and his policies show that...
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As Great Britain faces an imminent war with Germany, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, invited the King and Queen of England for a weekend at their home in upstate New York. But during the first-ever visit of a reigning British monarch to America, international affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR's domestic establishment, as wife, mother, and mistresses all conspire to make the royal trip an unforgettable one....
4) Vice
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Christian Bale stars as Dick Cheney in this epic tale of how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world. Co-starring Amy Adams, Steve Carell, and Sam Rockwell, it is a darkly comic look behind the scenes of American politics.
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Air Force One: The President fights to save his family when a group of Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One.
In the line of fire: Frank Horrigan, a veteran Secret Service agent haunted by his failure to protect JFK from assassination gets a chance to redeem himself when a brilliant psychopath threatens to kill the current president and take Horrigan with him.
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Desperate trail: A relentless marshal obsessed with serving justice trails an outlaw couple who are just as bent on freedom.
Rough riders: An epic saga of the American-Spanish conflict that shaped the nation's destiny and a future President's soul.
You know my name: Bill Tilghman, a lawman and former partner of Wyatt Earp, confronts a new era when outlaws run whiskey instead of cattle and are as likely to tote a tommy gun as a six-gun.
10) Nixon
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Explores president Richard Nixon's strict Quaker upbringing, his political strivings in law school, and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife, Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early. He endures a vicious campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and envied John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election, is followed by the loss of the 1962...