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10 Great Political Documentaries
From 'Navalny' to 'Fahrenheit 9/11' and 'All In: The Fight for Democracy,' here are 10 documentaries that shed light on the political process.
Pennebaker and Albert Maysles follow Hubert Humphrey and John F. Kennedy as they pressed flesh in Wisconsin, favoring ambient sounds, closeups and on-the-cuff interviews over static shots of talking heads in the resulting hour-long program. Directed by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés, the film opens with Abrams initially refusing to concede her first gubernatorial race due to what she characterizes as voter-suppression tactics and goes on to outline the history of repressive measures against Black voters in the South. Decades later, the former Kennedy administration whiz kid proved to be a maddeningly elusive — but always fascinating — subject of this Errol Morris documentary, subtitled “Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara.” Released shortly after the controversial 2003 invasion of Iraq, the doc went on to win an Oscar.
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