Movies like Truth
If Truth's mix of usa president, presidential election and journalism stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Truth's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Nixon
1995 · Directed by Oliver Stone · 192 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: usa president, presidential election
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate…
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Spotlight
2015 · Directed by Tom McCarthy · 129 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: journalism · From the same decade (2010s)
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
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All the President's Men
1976 · Directed by Alan J. Pakula · 138 min7.7
Why you'll like itWith Robert Redford
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
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JFK
1991 · Directed by Oliver Stone · 189 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: usa president
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
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The Right Stuff
1983 · Directed by Philip Kaufman · 193 min7.4
Why you'll like itWith Dennis Quaid
At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.
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The Butler
2013 · Directed by Lee Daniels · 132 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: usa president · From the same decade (2010s)
Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency…
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Official Secrets
2019 · Directed by Gavin Hood · 112 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: 2000s · From the same decade (2010s)
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security…
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She Said
2022 · Directed by Maria Schrader · 129 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: journalism
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of…
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Shattered Glass
2003 · Directed by Billy Ray · 94 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: journalism
Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George.
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September 5
2024 · Directed by Tim Fehlbaum · 94 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: journalism
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
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All the Way
2016 · Directed by Jay Roach · 132 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: usa president · From the same decade (2010s)
Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually…
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004 · Directed by Niels Mueller · 95 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: usa president
It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t give him any money to start anew.