Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "u.s.-state-department"

1. Jack Ryan (2018–2023)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Up-and-coming CIA analyst, Jack Ryan, is thrust into dangerous field assignments.

Stars: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Michael Kelly, Abbie Cornish

Votes: 175,903

2. Snowden (2016)

R | 134 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto

Votes: 163,182 | Gross: $21.59M

3. Hotel Rwanda (2004)

PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.

Director: Terry George | Stars: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Xolani Mali

Votes: 372,597 | Gross: $23.53M

4. Midnight Express (1978)

R | 121 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli

Votes: 88,323 | Gross: $35.00M

5. The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Samantha Caine lives in a small town with her daughter. Eight years ago she emerged, two months pregnant, from a nearby river with no memory of her past or who she is. However, she's getting closer to finding out about her past.

Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima, Craig Bierko

Votes: 85,759 | Gross: $33.33M

6. Buried (2010)

R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

Director: Rodrigo Cortés | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, José Luis García-Pérez, Robert Paterson, Stephen Tobolowsky

Votes: 168,682 | Gross: $1.03M

7. The Fifth Estate (2013)

R | 128 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.

Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten, Alicia Vikander

Votes: 42,733 | Gross: $3.25M

8. Snatched (2017)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When her boyfriend dumps her before their exotic vacation, a young woman persuades her ultra-cautious mother to travel with her to paradise, with unexpected results.

Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Kim Caramele, Raven Goodwin

Votes: 37,607 | Gross: $45.83M

9. Missing (1982)

PG | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea

Votes: 23,408 | Gross: $14.00M

10. Rendition (2007)

R | 122 min | Drama, Thriller

When a terrorist bombing in North Africa kills 19 incl. an American, an Egyptian chemical engineer flying from South Africa to his wife in USA, is arrested upon arriving USA. He disappears. His wife asks senator for help.

Director: Gavin Hood | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin

Votes: 58,238 | Gross: $9.74M

11. The Whistleblower (2010)

R | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal.

Director: Larysa Kondracki | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn

Votes: 35,770 | Gross: $1.12M

12. The White Countess (2005)

PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, History, Romance

In 1930s Shanghai, a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd--and sometimes illicit--jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave

Votes: 6,983 | Gross: $1.67M

13. Haven (2001 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History

A U.S. official escorts Holocaust refugees from 1940s war-torn Europe to temporary shelter in America.

Director: John Gray | Stars: Natasha Richardson, Colm Feore, Henry Czerny, Sheila McCarthy

Votes: 533

14. Cry Uncle (1971)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Private detective takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Jackson Beck, Pamela Gruen, Allen Garfield, Devin Goldenberg

Votes: 691 | Gross: $1.08M

15. Georgetown (2019)

R | 99 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Ulrich Mott, an ambitious social climber, marries a wealthy widow in Washington D.C. in order to mix with powerful political players.

Director: Christoph Waltz | Stars: Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, Annette Bening, Corey Hawkins

Votes: 6,167

16. Daddy Long Legs (1955)

Approved | 126 min | Musical, Romance

A wealthy American has a chance encounter with a joyful young French woman, and anonymously pays for her education. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor, nicknaming him from the description given by some of her fellow orphans.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter

Votes: 4,294

17. Political Animals (2012)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama

A divorced former First Lady is currently serving as the Secretary of State. She deals with State Department issues while trying to keep her family together.

Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Carla Gugino, James Wolk, Sebastian Stan

Votes: 6,558

18. Four Days in September (1997)

R | 110 min | Action, Drama, History

Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.

Director: Bruno Barreto | Stars: Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres, Luiz Fernando Guimarães

Votes: 5,380 | Gross: $0.31M

19. Diplomatic Courier (1952)

Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A US State Department courier tangles with Soviet agents and seductive women in post WW2 Europe.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Stephen McNally, Hildegard Knef

Votes: 1,430

20. Fade to Black (2006)

R | 99 min | Mystery, Thriller

Attempting to recover from his failed marriage to Rita Hayworth and restart his career, Orson Welles travels to Italy only to be drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue, murder and politics when an actor is murdered on his set.

Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Danny Huston, Diego Luna, Paz Vega, Christopher Walken

Votes: 915

21. It Started with a Kiss (1959)

Unrated | 104 min | Comedy, Romance

A U.S. sergeant serving in Spain creates envy among his Air Force superiors and the Spanish locals when his brand new futuristic sports car and pretty wife arrive at the base.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Eva Gabor, Gustavo Rojo

Votes: 1,077

22. Double Target (1987)

102 min | Action, Adventure, War

After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the ... See full summary »

Directors: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Miles O'Keeffe, Donald Pleasence, Bo Svenson, Kristine Erlandson

Votes: 419

23. The Weather Underground (2002)

Unrated | 92 min | Documentary, History, War

The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.

Directors: Sam Green, Bill Siegel | Stars: Lili Taylor, Pamela Z, Jim Lange, Evan White

Votes: 3,770 | Gross: $0.56M

24. In the Year of the Pig (1968)

Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary, History, War

A documentary chronicling the background to, and history of, the Vietnam War.

Director: Emile de Antonio | Stars: Harry S. Ashmore, Daniel Berrigan, Joseph Buttinger, William R. Corson

Votes: 1,921

25. Trumbo (2007)

PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Biography

Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Askin | Stars: Dalton Trumbo, Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas

Votes: 1,248 | Gross: $7.85M

26. Sorry, Haters (2005)

Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Thriller

Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.

Director: Jeff Stanzler | Stars: Robin Wright, Abdellatif Kechiche, Élodie Bouchez, Aasif Mandvi

Votes: 1,539 | Gross: $0.01M

27. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)

Unrated | 74 min | Documentary

In April 2002, an Irish film crew is making a documentary about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, when a coup from the opposition is made.

Directors: Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain | Stars: Hugo Chávez, Pedro Carmona, Jesse Helms, Colin Powell

Votes: 2,630

28. Blonde Bait (1956)

Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

U.S. State Department agent Kent Foster, on the trail of a murderous traitor, Nick Randall, hopes to trap Randall through singer/stripper Angela Booth. The latter has promised to marry ... See full summary »

Director: Elmo Williams | Stars: Beverly Michaels, Jim Davis, Joan Rice, Richard Travis

Votes: 173

29. State Department: File 649 (1949)

Passed | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

U.S. Foreign Service officer matches wits with a Chinese warlord to try to save American citizens threatened with execution.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: William Lundigan, Virginia Bruce, Jonathan Hale, Frank Ferguson

Votes: 207

30. The Last Witness (1999 TV Movie)

R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A woman becomes entangled in the conspiracy of two world governments to assassinate an international leader in New York.

Director: Graeme Clifford | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Johnathon Schaech, Michael Filipowich, David McIlwraith

Votes: 696

31. Espionage Agent (1939)

Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to root out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn, George Bancroft

Votes: 468

32. The Battle of Chile: Part III (1979)

80 min | Documentary, History

This film investigates the factory worker's response to the insurrection, as well as Chile's socialist aspirations for the future. The camera captures the optimism in the industrial working class before Pinochet's US-backed coup d'état.

Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Abilio Fernández, Ernesto Malbran

Votes: 1,043

33. Panama Patrol (1939)

Approved | 67 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

The head of the cipher bureau, Phillip Waring, is about to marry his secretary, Helen Lane, when he is informed that the state department has discovered a message that must be decoded. With... See full summary »

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Leon Ames, Charlotte Wynters, Adrienne Ames, Weldon Heyburn

Votes: 98

34. Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure (2003)

Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary

Directed by Gerard Ungerman, Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure documents what many believe to be dangerous hypocrisy on the part of the American government. The film gives ... See full summary »

Directors: Audrey Brohy, Gerard Ungerman | Stars: Edward Asner, Ingrid Betancourt, William R. Brownfield, Noam Chomsky

Votes: 41

35. Who's Your Baghdaddy, or How I Started the Iraq War (2020 Video)

Musical

A diverse group of people, including a CIA analyst, an interrogator for the German intelligence service BND, a former UN weapons inspector turned whistleblower, and an apparent Iraqi ... See full summary »

Director: Neil Gooding | Stars: Adam Rennie, Laura Murphy, Blake Erickson, Matthew Predny

36. Turmoil & Triumph: The George Shultz Years (2010– )

Documentary

This three-hour documentary series on the life of former Secretary of State George Shultz presents viewers with a rare close-up look at this remarkable man who served his country at the ... See full summary »

Stars: Frank Collison, Henry Kissinger, Mikhail Gorbachev, Condoleezza Rice

Votes: 7

37. Sleeper Cell (2005–2006)
Episode: Torture (2006)

TV-MA | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

FBI agent Darwyn faces a dangerous dilemma when he is ordered by the terrorist network to secure a military explosive and his new FBI handler refuses to cooperate.

Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall | Stars: Michael Ealy, Oded Fehr, Henri Lubatti, Thekla Reuten

Votes: 118

38. Radio Free America (2017– )
Episode: Saturday Melt Down/Saturday Boomer Tech (2019)

News

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Stars: Halsey English, Dustin Gold, Brian Hendrix

39. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Designated Target (2007)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

While a Navy rear admiral rides in a taxi, two motorcyclists, using silenced pistols, execute both men; Gibbs and company investigate. Ducky says that the target was the driver, who was a political refugee from Burundi. The gang solve it.

Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 722

40. CBS Reports (1959– )
Episode: The Homosexuals (1967)

59 min | Documentary, News

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Stars: Mike Wallace, William Baer, Irving Bieber, James Braxton Craven

Votes: 29

41. War and Remembrance (1988–1989)
Episode: Part VI (1988)

Not Rated | 147 min | Drama, War

Pug Henry returns to Washington where President Roosevelt asks him to take an assignment at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. There, the U.S. Ambassador is none too pleased with the lack of ... See full summary »

Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant

Votes: 94

42. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 9 July 1951 (1951)

News, Talk-Show

Henry Hazlitt, contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, and William Bradford Huie, publisher of the American Mercury, interview Max W. Thornburg, the U.S. Department of State's petroleum ... See full summary »

Director: Alan Cartoun | Stars: Henry Hazlitt, William Bradford Huie, Frank Knight, Max W. Thornburg

43. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 16 November 1951 (1951)

News, Talk-Show

Huie and Ansel E. Talbert, editor of the New York Herald-Tribune, interview U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, a Republican from Wisconsin. Topics include reports of atrocities during the ... See full summary »

Stars: William Bradford Huie, Joseph McCarthy, Ansel E. Talbert

44. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 30 November 1951 (1951)

News, Talk-Show

Huie and Peter Keyes, reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune, interview Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary of State. Topics discussed include cease-fire talks in Korea and American foreign policy in the Far East.

Director: Ted Estabrook | Stars: William Bradford Huie, Peter Keyes, Frank Knight, Dean Rusk

45. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 16 October 1953 (1953)

News, Talk-Show

Lesueur and Burdett interview Jeffrey W. Lewis, Director of German of Affairs for the U.S. Department of State. Topics include Germany's economic and political revival, the possibility of a... See full summary »

Stars: Winston Burdett, Larry LeSueur, Jeffrey W. Lewis

46. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 27 October 1954 (1954)

News, Talk-Show

Lesueur and Heckscher interview Charles E. Saltzman, U.S. Undersecretary of State. Topcis include morale in the State Department and among its foreign service officers and security issues in the Department.

Stars: August Heckscher, Larry LeSueur, Charles E. Saltzman

47. JFK: Destiny Betrayed (2021)
Episode: Chapter Four (2021)

TV-MA | 234 min | Documentary, History

An examination of evidence that surrounds the accused lone nut, Lee Harvey Oswald, and his associations with groups linked to the CIA.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Donald Sutherland, Lisa Pease, John M. Newman

Votes: 22

48. Across the Pacific (2020)
Episode: Latin Laboratory (2020)

History

As they push southward, Trippe, Sikorsky, Lindbergh and Leuteritz build larger flying boats, harness radio to navigate safely over great distances, and, with help from the U.S. government, ... See full summary »

Directors: Stephen Lyons, Lisa Quijano Wolfinger | Stars: Christopher Cassarino, Jake Berger, Richard Derry, Billy Donahue

49. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: The Golden Door (Beginnings-1938) (2022)

TV-14 | 129 min | Documentary, History

A xenophobic backlash prompts Congress to restrict immigration. Hitler and the Nazis persecute German Jews, forcing many to seek refuge. FDR is concerned by the growing crisis but is unable to coordinate a response.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Peter Hayes, Daniel Mendelsohn, Rebecca Erbelding

Votes: 203

50. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942) (2022)

TV-14 | 138 min | Documentary, History

As WWII begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Guy Stern, Peter Hayes

Votes: 157