Political Assassination Movies

In 1948, a new British governor takes over a Far Eastern colony after his predecessor is murdered by terrorists.

Forty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, more than 80% of Americans still believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. This...

Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal for visiting royalty.

Bologna, 2002. Amidst protests against the labor reform, the assassination of a lawyer opens old wounds between Italy and France. Former far-left...

French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to...

Witness the unvarnished realities of death in the 2020s. From the modern faces of assassination and war, to the urban atrocities unfolding every day...

A political assassination leads to division and chaos.

Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted....

The real dream of the American pastor Martin Luther King was never limited to civil rights. He hoped for a just America, where poverty would no...

In 2019, the multi-awarded filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani (My Stolen Revolution, Prostitution Behind the Veil) filmed the Iranian journalist...

In 1882, when Jelena Ilka Marković – the widow of Jevrem Marković, accused of participating in the Topolska Rebellion and summarily...

A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore...

West Germany, 1987. The politician Uwe Barschel (1944-87), member of the Christian Democratic Union party and Minister-President of the...

Set in the near future. Ex police officer J.B. Fitzgerald is combated by a government influenced by corrupt police officers, corporations and...

A tabloid writer has evidence of the assassination of a US Senator. A visit from a scrupulous FBI agent suggests he may know more than he's admitting...

Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in...

Ashwin is a photographer, covering the upcoming elections for a newspaper. His life gets entangled with politics when one of his published...