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A radical folksinger turned senatorial candidate blends the campaign trail with singing, music videos and scandal.

What is it like to actually run for office? To organize campaigns? To get out the vote? To produce negative ads? To build legislative coalitions? All this and more is part of Vote for Me: Politics in America, the Peabody Award-winning four -hour public TV series that travels across the country to show us how politics is really played in the U.S. Entertaining, funny, and full of revealing behind-the-scenes moments, Vote for Meis the perfect way for...

When liberal filmmaker Michael Moore is invited to speak at Utah Valley State College, it creates a firestorm not usually seen in the heart of conservative Mormon country. A media frenzy follows, as does Fox News' Sean Hannity who agrees to speak at UVSC prior to Moore's engagement. Protests, anger and a bribery attempt by a local businessman to stop Moore's appearance punctuate this documentary that cuts to the heart of the "red versus blue' rift...

Traces the former Pakistani president's turbulent life and career, shedding crucial light on the man and his determined march towards political rule. Packed with illuminating interviews and revealing political footage, this film offers a detailed account of one of the world's most controversial leaders.

From his childhood in Valparaiso to his suicide following the Pinochet military coup on 11 September 1973, the life and works of Chilean president Salvador Allende, focusing on the three years following his election.

Filmmaker Kevin Booth travels to Bulgaria where a clandestine meeting with an Oligarchs' notorious banker reveals all, transforming the story into a political adventure; an entire country controlled by a shadowy mafia boss linked to the KGB.

When a gifted ghostwriter is hired to write the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, he quickly finds himself trapped in a web of political and sexual intrigue. Lang is implicated in a scandal over his administration's harsh tactics, and as the ghostwriter digs into the politician's past, he discovers secrets that threaten to jeopardize international relations forever.

In 1953, Desmond Doyle takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children. Despite a strong work ethic, Desmond has a hard time holding on to steady work. Desmond's wife walks out on the relationship and his sporadic employment eventually attracts the attention of the law. A court order sends his two sons and young daughter to separate Catholic orphanages until Desmond can prove he's capable of properly...

Based of a true story about a journalist who gets detained and brutally interrogated in prison for 118 days. A Tehran-born journalist based in London, Maziar Bahari returns to Iran to cover the 2009 presidential election and its ensuing riots. He is detained by Iranian forces who relentlessly interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.