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Death of a President (2006)

Death of a President poster
Directed by
Gabriel Range
Genre
documentary film, drama film, political thriller film
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
R
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 80 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mockumentary imagines the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago in 2007. It shows the event and its consequences for civil liberties, racial profiling, and the media.

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What happens

Death of a President is a 2006 British mockumentary political thriller film about the fictional assassination of George W. Bush, the 43rd and at the time, incumbent U.S. president, on 19 October 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. The film is presented as a future history docudrama and uses actors, archival video footage as well as computer-generated special effects to present the hypothetical aftermath the event had on civil liberties, racial profiling, journalistic sensationalism and foreign policy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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