Third Baseman

Can you name any? Do they even exist?

Groucho

Wouldn't mske much sense to make such a film.

FinkPish

I thought The War Room was pretty unbiased. Obviously it was about the Clinton campaign, but it wasn't edited in such a way to make me believe that they didn't have their own faults and problems along the way.

Third Baseman

I've been meaning to pick that up. Looks real interesting although I don't really like the guy.

Brain Stew

Citizen Ruth

The pro-lifers and pro-choicers pretty much don't really care about Ruth. Both sides are really just looking out for themselves.

FinkPish

Yeah, it has been showing on IFC once in a while recently. If by "the guy" you mean Clinton, it really centers more on Carville and Stephanopoulos and how they handled the campaign. Very interesting behind the scenes look at how these campaigns are run, especially after this year's election.

Max Bottomtime

Team America

Groucho

While your assessment is correct, it is still a political position to say "Both sides are idiots." There is a bias in the film, it just doesn't fall under the traditional pro-life or pro-choice banner.

I was thinking The War Room when I posted earlier. That's a pretty good choice, I suppose.

metaridley

Both versions of The Manchurian Candidate go out of their way to avoid naming political parties or implement any one idealogy or individual...the new one moreso than the old.

FinkPish

The first one was definitely about the evils of communism.

Mr. Salty

No, it wasn't. It was a political satire about a McCarthyesque American politician using the public's paranoia about communism to gain power and be swept into the Oval Office.

FinkPish

Satire or not, it still gave a biased impression of communism.

Duder

Considering the communists were our enemies at the time, I hardly see this as biased. Is representing dictatorships in a negative light biased too?

When I saw this thread title the first things I thought of were The Manchurian Candidate and Team America as well. The former does a commendable job of avoiding any sort of partisan slant, and the latter tears apart both sides so much that you can't really argue it promotes either.

FinkPish

I don't understand your reasoning. Just because they were our enemies at the time, it is alright to show them in an ominous way? The country's bias at the time was that communism is bad. By your reasoning, if you are a Democrat, then Farenheit 9/11 isn't biased, because you agree with it.


In any case, enemies or not, the movie still showed them in an unfavorable light. The movie had a bias against them, so it couldn't be possibly be unbiased.

Duder

In order for the movie not to have been biased in your view, should the communists have been good guys, or not in it at all? Such a bias as this will be present in absolutely everything you find, as it's a natural extension of viewpoint; it's a broad national/ideological bias, not a political bias per se, and so I don't think it voids the movie from being "politically themed with no bias." I'm looking for something more specific and political policy- and issue-related, not "this movie paints x in a negative light so it's politically biased against x."

FinkPish

Obviously your criteria are much more specific than mine on this subject, so I doubt we are going to agree on this one. To me, the motivations behind the assassination plot are tied to communism, which is an ideology as well as a political movement, so in that, there is a political bias against communism.

I think you are right though, a bias is pretty much inevitable in everything we encounter. This may answer the OP's original question of if making a non-biased movie is possible.

The Cow

Yup.

Calculon

Election.

j123vt_99

Wag The Dog?

Count Dooku

Dave

wmansir

The American President











j/k

j123vt_99

The OP was a little vauge so I guess you could include all those types of movies

My Fellow Americans
the one with Chris Rock and Bernie Mac

Me007gold

Thirteen Days?


Bullworth

nodeerforamonth

"Team America" did a good job lampooning both sides of an issue. Of course Hollywood got made fun of the most (as deservedly so).

Comics

Battle of Algiers