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  1. 1An Officer and a Spy (2019)An Officer and a Spy (2019) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 30, 2019France's Dreyfus affair seen through Georges Picquart, the intelligence chief who found proof that the convicted Jewish captain was innocent, then watched the army try to silence him rather than admit it. Adapted from Robert Harris's novel, it is meticulous about uniforms, offices and forged files,…0
  2. 2Scandal (1989)Scandal (1989) 6.5/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 3, 1989The first big-screen telling of the Profumo affair still has the most sympathetic Stephen Ward: John Hurt plays the society osteopath as charming, needy and finally abandoned by the powerful friends who enjoyed his parties. Joanne Whalley is Christine Keeler and Ian McKellen a stiff John Profumo.…0
  3. 3The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019)The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019) 6.9/10 on IMDbFirst aired Dec 29, 2019The Profumo affair retold from Christine Keeler's side, over six episodes that follow her past the headlines and into the courtroom. Sophie Cookson gives Keeler wit and anger, James Norton's Stephen Ward is a colder figure than John Hurt's, and Ellie Bamber's Mandy Rice-Davies steals scenes.…0
  4. 4A Very English Scandal (2018)A Very English Scandal (2018) 7.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired May 20, 2018Hugh Grant plays Jeremy Thorpe, leader of the Liberal Party from 1967, and Ben Whishaw is Norman Scott, the man who said they had been lovers and whom Thorpe spent years trying to silence. The plot against Scott ended with a hired gunman shooting Scott's Great Dane, Rinka, and the series plays the…0
  5. 5Chappaquiddick (2018)Chappaquiddick (2018) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 6, 2018Jason Clarke plays Ted Kennedy in the days after he drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969, leaving Mary Jo Kopechne dead in the car and taking hours to report it. The film is best as a study of a political machine moving into damage control around a man who seems unsure whether he…0
  6. 6Nixon (1995)Nixon (1995) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 22, 1995Oliver Stone treats Watergate as the end point of a whole life of grievance, from a hard California boyhood to resignation. Anthony Hopkins neither looks nor sounds much like Nixon, and after a few minutes it stops mattering: the insecurity is unforgettable. It is the most ambitious of the…0
  7. 7Gaslit (2022)Gaslit (2022) 7.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired Apr 24, 2022Julia Roberts plays Martha Mitchell, the outspoken wife of Nixon's attorney general, who was by several accounts held and drugged in a Los Angeles hotel suite to stop her talking about Watergate. Grown out of the Slow Burn podcast, the series restores a woman history mostly remembered as a…0
  8. 8White House Plumbers (2023)White House Plumbers (2023) 6.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired May 1, 2023Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux play E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, the operatives behind the Watergate break-in, as a pair of deluded fantasists, and the joke is how little the comedy needs inventing. Liddy's famous candle trick is true, and Hunt and Liddy really did sit in a nearby hotel…0
  9. 9Stonehouse (2023)Stonehouse (2023) 6.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jan 2, 2023Matthew Macfadyen plays John Stonehouse, the Labour minister who vanished in November 1974, leaving a pile of clothes on a Miami beach, and turned up in Australia under a new identity. Written by John Preston, whose book became A Very English Scandal, this three-part drama plays it as farce, with…0
  10. 101987: When the Day Comes (2017)1987: When the Day Comes (2017) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 27, 2017South Korea's military government tried to bury the death of student activist Park Jong-chul under police interrogation, planning to cremate him before an autopsy and calling it a heart attack, until a post-mortem found he had been asphyxiated. The exposure fed the June 1987 democracy uprising.…0