List of political biography films

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This is a list of political biography films. It includes any biographical films about politicians, heads of state, or people who were otherwise mainly known for their political involvement.

John Curtin

• Curtin (2007)

Bob Hawke, Prime Minister.

• Hawke (2010)

Jack Layton

• Jack (2013)

John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister

• One Canadian: The Political Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. John G. Diefenbaker (1976; miniseries)

Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Prime Minister

• Trudeau (2002; miniseries)

Puyi

• The Last Emperor^[1]

Mao Zedong

• Mao Zedong 1949

Deng Xiaoping

• Deng Xiaoping

Adolf Hitler

• Downfall^[2]

Jawaharlal Nehru

• Our Prime Minister (1957)

Narendra Modi

• PM Narendra Modi (2019)

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

• Swatantrya Veer Savarkar (2024)

Lal Bahadur Shastri

• Jai Jawaan Jai Kisaan (2015)

Manmohan Singh

• The Accidental Prime Minister (2019)

Saddam Hussein

• Al-ayyam al-tawila (1980)

Golda Meir, Prime Minister

• Golda (film)

Benito Mussolini

• The Assassination of Matteotti (1973)

• Benito (1993)

• Fairytale (2022)

• I'm Back (2018)

• Last Days of Mussolini (1974)
• Lion of the Desert (1981)

• Mussolini and I (1985)

• Vincere (2009; about first wife Ida Dalser)

Galeazzo Ciano

• Mussolini and I (1985)

Giacomo Matteotti

• The Assassination of Matteotti (1973)

Giulio Andreotti, Prime Minister.

• Il divo^[3]

Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister.

• Loro^[4]

Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister.

• Anno uno

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

• Jinnah (1998)

Manuel L. Quezon, President

• Quezon's Game

Joseph Stalin

• The Death of Stalin (2017)
• Stalin (1992)

Nelson Mandela

• Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
• Endgame (2009)
• Goodbye Bafana (2007)
• Invictus (2009)
• Mandela (1987)
• Mandela (1996)
• Mandela's Gun (2016)
• Winnie Mandela (2011)

Idi Amin

• The Last King of Scotland (2006)^[5]
• Operation Thunderbolt (1977)

• Raid on Entebbe (1977)
• Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981)
• Victory at Entebbe (1976)

Margaret Thatcher

• Margaret
• The Iron Lady

Tony Blair

• The Deal^[6]
• The Special Relationship^[7]

Elizabeth I

• Elizabeth

Elizabeth II

• The Queen (2006)
• A Royal Night Out (2015)

George W. Bush, 43rd president.

• W.

Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president.

• LBJ

John F. Kennedy, 35th president.

• JFK

Ted Kennedy, senator.

• Chappaquiddick^[8]

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president.

• Lincoln

Richard Nixon, 37th president.

• Nixon

Harvey Milk, San Francisco council member.

• Milk

Dick Cheney, 46th vice president.

• Vice