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Favorite US President Films

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7.2

7.3

Lincoln (2012)

Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

As the Civil War nears its end, President Abraham Lincoln clashes with members of his cabinet over the issue of abolishing slavery.

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Kennedy

Director: Jim Goddard
Starring: Martin Sheen, Vincent Gardenia, Blair Brown, E.G. Marshall, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Kevin Conroy, Kelsey Grammer and John Shea

Biography of the 1961-1963 presidency of John F. Kennedy.

kathy's rating:

327

6.7

7.1

Nixon (1995)

Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Annabeth Gish, Powers Boothe, J. T. Walsh, E. G. Marshall, James Woods, Paul Sorvino, Larry Hagman, David Hyde Pierce, Bob Hoskins, David Paymer, Ed Harris and Joanna Going

A biographical story of former U.S. president Richard Milhous Nixon, from his days as a young boy to his eventual presidency which ended in shame.

kathy's rating:

457

5.6

6.3

W. (2008)

Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Ioan Gruffudd and Colin Hanks

George W. Bush's eventful life: his struggles and triumphs. How he found both his wife and his faith, and of course the critical days leading up to Bush’s decision to invade Iraq.

kathy's rating:

7.6

Warm Springs

Director: Joseph Sargent
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer and Tim Blake Nelson

Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.

kathy's rating:

7.8

7.2

Truman

Director: Frank Pierson
Starring: Gary Sinise, Diana Scarwid, Richard Dysart, Colm Feore, James Gammon, Tony Goldwyn, Pat Hingle, Harris Yulin, Leo Burmester, Amelia Campbell, Virginia Capers, John Finn, Zeljko Ivanek and David Lansbury

Harry S. Truman's rise to the presidency from humble beginnings, World War II and his decision to use the first atomic bomb.

kathy's rating:

6.5

7.2

The Crossing (2000)...

Director: Robert Harmon
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Roger Rees, Sebastian Roché, Steven McCarthy, John Henry Canavan, Ned Vukovic, David Ferry and Nigel Bennett

A dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the British forces at Trenton.

kathy's rating:

5.7

Jefferson in Paris (1995)

Director: James Ivory
Starring: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth Paltrow, Thandie Newton and Estelle Eonnet

A biography of Thomas Jefferson, in the years before he became President. Jefferson is in Paris as the U.S. Ambassador to the court of Louis XVI. Following the death of his wife, the film charts Jefferson's friendships and flirtations with the French, his relationship with his daughters and his slaves from home - especially 15-year-old Sally Hemings - against the backdrop of the beginning of the French Revolution.

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Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency

6.5

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency...

Directors: Carl Byker and Mitch Wilson
Starring: Martin Sheen (narrator), Lawrence Bull Jr., Lacie Madison, David McArdle and Bruce Williamson

A biography of America’s seventh president, Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency explores whether Americans should celebrate Jackson or apologize for him.

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Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century

7.5

Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century...

Directors: Carl Byker and Mitch Wilson
Starring: Linda Hunt (narrator), Rene Auberjonois (voice), Blair Brown (voice), Louis Auchincloss, John Morton Blum and Victoria Bissell Brown

A documentary about the intellectual pacifist progressive President Woodrow Wilson. Showing his place in history as the president who oversaw America's transformation into a singular global power but also his failed quest for world peace due to his poor physical stamina and political dexterity.

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