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21) Pacmen
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
PACMEN is the first film to document the inside workings of a Super-PAC, taking us behind the scenes to answer one of the lingering questions of America’s strangest election…why did Ben Carson run for president? This observational documentary follows the men behind the Super-PACs that drafted Dr Carson to run.
24) The Frandidate
Author
Series
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Determined to be elected class president, mad scientist Frannie K. Stein uses her Atomic Combiner to create a suit that makes her seem to be whatever a voter wants her to be, but the suit has plans of its own.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
What can 1868 teach us about 2020? Going to the Devil: The Impeachment of 1868, the first-time-ever original narrative documentary from The Great Courses, is a unique retelling of the turbulent events leading up to and through the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. With back-stabbings, acts of violence, and a cult of personalities, experience the history of this case unfolding like fiction.
Author
Series
Heidi Heckelbeck volume 30
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Heidi's class needs a new president, Heidi throws her witch's hat into the ring! Now there are so many Heidi needs to do to prepare for the election. She has to make posters. She has to give a speech. And hopefully along the way she will figure out what being class president really means. Does Heidi have the magic it takes to win the vote?"--
28) Infomocracy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line."--Front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The students of Stanton Elementary School, which is a polling place, find out all they can about voting and then encourage everyone in their neighborhoods to cast their ballots. Creative nonfiction picture book: includes additional facts and historical details.
Publisher
Zooscope Productions
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After campaigning door to door for the democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders in New York City, two ardent Bernie supporters go to Philadelphia to protest Hillary Clinton’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention, furious in their knowledge that her nomination could lead to a Donald Trump presidency. A political documentary that chronicles the grassroots social justice movement that supported Bernie in 2016 and how it could shape the...
32) One Vote
Publisher
Cargo Film & Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
ONE VOTE is a small film about a big topic: American democracy. At a moment of unprecedented cynicism about the political process, ONE VOTE bears hopeful witness to the humanity and rich diversity of American voters, and to the unsung stories that comprise our exercise of democracy. It is an inspiring film that follows five diverse Americans on election day. At times funny, surprising and heart-wrenching, the film eschews partisan politics in favor...
34) Vote!
Author
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Using a campaign for mayor as an example, shows the steps involved in an election, from the candidate's speeches and rallies, to the voting booth where every vote counts, to the announcement of the winner.
35) Dark Money
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
This acclaimed documentary examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana -a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide - to follow a local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Short-Listed for Best Documentary Feature at the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Fair and free elections are one of the keys to a strong democracy. Voting and Elections introduces readers to political campaigns, voting rights, and election-day processes."--Publisher's website.
Series
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
This documentary exposes gaping holes in the security of America's electronic voting system. Takes a nonpartisn, clear-eyed look at the secrecy, cronyism, and incompetence of elections in present-day America as it captures a citizen's movement intent on taking back elections and democracy itself.
Author
Series
Captain Awesome volume 20
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Eugene runs for second-grade class president against Meredith Mooney, but must find a way to prove he is best for the job without revealing either of their secret identities.--Provided by Publisher.
39) The Vote
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Vote tells the dramatic story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.
40) The Candidates
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Since 1996, the student body of Townsend Harris High School has been staging the longest running civics experiment in the form of simulating the American electoral process against the backdrop of the real one. In these elaborate mock elections that span an entire semester, candidates must run the whole gamut of an election Grand simulation replete with fake money, media pundits, campaign ads, debates, electioneering, super PACs, and candidates' spouses....
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