Best TV Show/Movie Involving Politics (Fiction Only)

[Politico]

My favorite show/mini-series about fictitious politics would have to be Ian Richardson's House of Cards Trilogy (David Fincher and Kevin Spacey are currently working on an American remake, but it is unclear whether it will be set in America or England):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098825/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108962/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111960/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/

From the movie-end, I think Election (1999) is my favorite and the best of the bunch (the parallels with the 2000 Presidential Election are uncanny):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126886/

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[Politico]

I might as well mention my favorite show "Mad Men." It's not a show about politics but it features it quite a bit. The principles of marketing and politics aren't that far apart anyway.  

It really is an amazing show, huh? Definitely in my top five although I have to say that I found the most recent season not quite on par with the first three seasons. I am convinced that the show will end with the image of Don "celebrating" on December 31, 1969 in some broken down hotel room, on the run from the authorities for you-know-what finally catching up to him...no money, no job, no friends, his ex-wives and children wanting nothing to do with him...in a word, a man who had everything and lost it all. Oh, and Peggy will end up taking Don's place as Creative Director.

[Politico]

And does The Wire count?

Not sure because I have yet to watch it and do not know how it relates to politics (Ignored The Wire due to only enough time for The Sopranos and Mad Men after it), but I hear it is incredible and look forward to watching it sometime down the road.

[Politico]

Another decent political flick nobody has mentioned yet:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103125/

[Politico]

Another decent political flick nobody has mentioned yet:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103125/

Located right above your post . . . literally right above it . . .

TV- John Adams, what a great mini series. If you don't know much about Adams, give it a watch you will be amassed. Paul Giamati and Laura Liney were amazing

Movies- Mr. Smith, Primary Colors, The Special Relationship, W., or Dick.  For anyone has never seen it, Dick is a comedy about the Watergate scandal with Kristen Dunst, Michelle Williams, and Will Ferell. It is a really great and underrated comedy, and it does a good job being accurate with Watergate

Really? Because True Colors (1991) and Primary Colors (1998) are completely different films with completely different titles.