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TOP POLITICAL FILMS (full results)

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Rank Film Points L #1
#1 Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) 61 14 10
#2 JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991) 33 9 3
#3 The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962) 31 8 3
#4 The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) 27 9 1
#5 All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976) 25 12 -
#6 Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975) 24 6 1
#7 Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, 2004) 17 6 -
#8 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939) 16 6 1
#9 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) 14 3 1
Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson, 1997) 14 5 1
#12 The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Errol Morris, 2003) 12 3 -
#13 Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002) 11 3 1
#14 Ivan the Terrible I & II (Sergei Eisenstein, 1944-46) 9 2 1
#15 Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933) 7 2 1
Election (Alexander Payne, 1999) 7 3 1
Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004) 7 2 -
#18 Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) 6 2 -
I am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964) 6 2 1
#20 The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) 5 1 1
The Killing Fields (Roland Joffé, 1984) 5 1 1
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) 5 1 1
Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton, 1996) 5 1 1
Not Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub, 1965) 5 1 1
Reds (Warren Beatty, 1981) 5 3 -
The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965) 5 1 1
Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) 5 2 -
#28 Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger, 1962) 4 2 -
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1969) 4 1 -
Bananas (Woody Allen, 1971) 4 2 -
The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) 4 1 -
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) 4 1 -
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) 4 1 -
The Corporation (Mark Achbar/Jennifer Abbott, 2003) 4 1 -
Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet, 1964) 4 1 -
The Great Man Votes (Garson Kanin, 1939) 4 1 -
Kuhle Wampe (Slatan Dudow, 1932) 4 1 -
Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992) 4 1 -
The Mouse that Roared (Jack Arnold, 1959) 4 1 -
Silkwood (Mike Nichols, 1983) 4 1 -
Tanner '88 (Robert Altman, 1988) 4 1 -
#42 () 3 1 -
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L=How many lists each film appears on                   #1=How many number one votes each film recieves

*points are given as follows: for numbered lists, first place recieves 5 points, second place recieves 4, third place 3, fourth place 2 and fifth place gets 1 point; for unumbered lists, each film will recieve 3 points; total points are then tallied up and a comprehensive Top 5 list is created.

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