CartYour Guide To The Best Political DVDs Starting With The Highest Reviews
 |
Politics DVDs
Politics is the process and method of making decisions for groups. Although it is generally applied to governments, politics is also observed in all human group interactions including corporate, academic, and religious institutions.Political science is the study of political behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e. the ability to impose one's will on another. One theorist, Harold Lasswell, has defined politics as "who gets what, when, and how." Another definition of 'politics' is: "how power is distributed within a group or system".
The word "Politics" is derived from the Greek word for city-state, "Polis". Corporate, religious, academic and every other polity, especially those constrained by limited resources, contain dominance hierarchy and therefore politics. Politics is most often studied in relation to the administration of governments.
The oldest form of government was tribal organization. Rule by elders was supplanted by monarchy, and a system of Feudalism as an arrangement where a single family dominated the political affairs of a community. Monarchies have existed in one form or another for the past 5000 years of human history.
DVDs Results: 1-11 of 98 found Page Results: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
Featured Politics DVDs Starting With Highest Reviews
|
An Inconvenient Truth
Starring: Billy West (II) Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Paramount Release Date: 2006-11-21 Running Time: 96 minutes With the fate of our planet arguably hanging in the balance, An Inconvenient Truth may prove to be one of the most important and prescient documentaries of all time. As he jokingly refers to himself, "former President-elect" Al Gore felt an urgent personal calling to draw attention--as he had been doing throughout his political career--to the increasingly desperate crisis of global warming,... read more / Compare Prices / Download Movies! / Download TV Shows / Online Movie Rental / Audio books Online  total reviews 1106
|
|
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Starring: James Stewart Rated: Unrated Studio: Sony Pictures Release Date: 2000-02-22 Running Time: 129 minutes / Compare Prices / Download Movies! / Download TV Shows / Online Movie Rental / Audio books Online  total reviews 110
|
|
To Live
Starring: Niu Ben Rated: Unrated Created By: Zhao Jiping Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Release Date: 2003-07-01 Running Time: 133 minutes One of the best films of 1994, To Live is a bold, energetic masterpiece from Zhang Yimou, the foremost director from China's influential "fifth generation" of filmmakers. Continuing his brilliant collaboration with China's best-known actress Gong Li (their previous films include Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), Zhang weaves an ambitious tapestry of personal and political eve... read more / Compare Prices / Download Movies! / Download TV Shows / Online Movie Rental / Audio books Online total reviews 101
|
|
Sicko (Special Edition)
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Created By: Christopher Seward Studio: Weinstein Company Release Date: 2007-11-06 Running Time: 123 minutes SiCKO is more like a controlled howl of protest than a documentary. Toning down the rhetoric of past efforts--no CEOs, congressmen, or celebrities were accosted in the making of this film--Michael Moore's latest provocation is just as heartfelt, if not more heartbreaking. As he clarifies from the outset, his subject isn't the 45 million Americans without insurance, but those whose coverage ... read more / Compare Prices / Download Movies! / Download TV Shows / Online Movie Rental / Audio books Online  total reviews 273
|
|
V for Vendetta (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Starring: Hugo Weaving Rated: R (Restricted) Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 2006-08-01 Running Time: 132 minutes "Remember, remember the fifth of November," for on this day, in 2020, the minds of the masses shall be set free. So says code-name V (Hugo Weaving), a man on a mission to shake society out of its blank complacent stares in the film V for Vendetta. His tactics, however, are a bit revolutionary, to say the least. The world in which V lives is very similar to Orwell's totalitarian dystopia in ... read more / Compare Prices / Download Movies! / Download TV Shows / Online Movie Rental / Audio books Online total reviews 689
|
|
V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Hugo Weaving Rated: R (Restricted) Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 2006-08-01 Running Time: 132 minutes "Remember, remember the fifth of November," for on this day, in 2020, the minds of the masses shall be set free. So says code-name V (Hugo Weaving), a man on a mission to shake society out of its blank complacent stares in the film V for Vendetta. His tactics, however, are a bit revolutionary, to say the least. The world in which V lives is very similar to Orwell's totalitarian dystopia in ... read more / Compare Prices / Download Movies! / Download TV Shows / Online Movie Rental / Audio books Online total reviews 689
|
|
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Sony Pictures Release Date: 2006-11-14 Running Time: 93 minutes It begins with a solemn funeral…for a car. By the end of Chris Paine's lively and informative documentary, the idea doesn't seem quite so strange. As narrator Martin Sheen notes, "They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline." Paine proceeds to show how this unique vehicle came into being and why General Motors ended up reclaiming its once-prized creation less than a... read more / Compare Prices / Download Movies! / Download TV Shows / Online Movie Rental / Audio books Online total reviews 255
|
|
Fahrenheit 9/11
Starring: James Baker III Rated: R (Restricted) Studio: Sony Pictures Release Date: 2004-10-05 Running Time: 122 minutes To anyone who truly understands what it means to be an American, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 should be seen as a triumph of patriotic freedom. Rarely has the First Amendment been exercised with such fervor and forthrightness of purpose: After subjecting himself to charges of factual errors in his gun-lobby exposé Bowling for Columbine, Moore armed himself with a platoon o... read more / Compare Prices / Download Movies! / Download TV Shows / Online Movie Rental / Audio books Online  total reviews 1361
|
|
House of Cards Trilogy (House of Cards / To Play the King / The Final Cut)
Starring: Michael Kitchen Rated: NR (Not Rated) Directed By: Mike Vardy Studio: BBC Warner Release Date: 2003-08-26 Running Time: 640 minutes Connoisseurs of political chicanery will relish House of Cards, the mordantly funny story of Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson), a British politician with his eye on the top job. Urquhart is the chief whip of the Conservative Party and his job is to maintain party discipline, or, as he likes to say, "put a bit of stick about." This means that he has intimate knowledge of his colleagues' foib... read more / Compare Prices / Download Movies! / Download TV Shows / Online Movie Rental / Audio books Online total reviews 67
|
|
The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Starring: Lyndon Johnson Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Sony Pictures Release Date: 2004-05-11 Running Time: 107 minutes The Fog of War, the movie that finally won Errol Morris the best documentary Oscar, is a spellbinder. Morris interviews Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and finds a uniquely unsettling viewpoint on much of 20th-century American history. Employing a ton of archival material, including LBJ's fascinating taped conversations from the Oval Office,... read more / Compare Prices / Download Movies! / Download TV Shows / Online Movie Rental / Audio books Online total reviews 208
|
Page Results: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
Learning Through Digital Media
©2005 Copyright Learningfromdvds.com Educational DVDs
