POLITICS IN FICTION

This is a list of fictional stories in which politics features as an important plot element. Passing mentions are omitted from this list.

Contents

Written works

Movies

Television

See also

External links

Written works

★ ''Fables and Parables'', by Ignacy Krasicki (1779).

★ ''Coningsby'', by Benjamin Disraeli (1844).

★ Palliser novels, by Anthony Trollope (1864-1879).

★ ''The Way We Live Now'', by Anthony Trollope (1875).

★ ''Honest John Vane'', by John William De Forest (1875).

★ '', by Henry Adams (1880).

★ ''An American Politician'', by F. Marion Crawford (1884).

★ ''Pharaoh'', by Bolesław Prus (1895).

★ ''Nostromo'', by Joseph Conrad (1904).

★ ''Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy'' (The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma), by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1932; thought to have inspired Jerzy Kosiński's 1971 novel, ''Being There'').

★ ''It Can't Happen Here'' by Sinclair Lewis (1935).

★ ''Darkness at Noon'' by Arthur Koestler (1940).

★ ''Animal Farm'', by George Orwell (1945).

★ ''A Bell for Adano'' by John Hersey (1945).

★ ''All the King's Men'', by Robert Penn Warren (1946).

★ ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', by George Orwell (1949).

★ ''The Last Hurrah'' by Edwin O'Connor (1956).

★ ''All in the Family by Edwin O'Connor (1966).

★ ''Atlas Shrugged'', by Ayn Rand (1957).

★ ''Things Fall Apart'', by Chinua Achebe (1958).

★ ''Advise and Consent'', by Allen Drury (1959).

★ ''The Best Man'', by Gore Vidal (play, 1960).

★ ''Seven Days in May'', by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey (1962).

★ ''A Man of the People'', by Chinua Achebe (1966).

★ ''The Godfather'', by Mario Puzo (1969).

★ ''Being There'', by Jerzy Kosiński (1971).

★ ''Burr'', by Gore Vidal (1973).

★ ''1876'', by Gore Vidal (1976).

★ ''The Dead Zone'', by Stephen King (1979).

★ ''An Enemy of the State'', by F. Paul Wilson (1980).

★ ''A Very British Coup'', by Chris Mullin (1982).

★ ''V for Vendetta'' by Alan Moore and David Lloyd (1982-88).

★ ''Anthills of the Savannah'', by Chinua Achebe (1987).

★ ''Favorite Son'', by Steve Sohmer, (1988).

★ ''House of Cards'', by Michael Dobbs (1989?).

★ ''The Fourth K'', by Mario Puzo (1990).

★ ''Patriots, by Steve Sohmer (1991).

★ ''To Play The King, by Michael Dobbs (1991).

★ ''Fatherland'', by Robert Harris (1992).

★ ''The Final Cut'', by Michael Dobbs (1992).

★ ''American Hero'', by Larry Beinhart (1994).

★ ''Primary Colors'', by "Anonymous" (Joe Klein, 1996).

★ ''A Time to Run'', by Barbara Boxer, (2005).

★ ''The Coup'', by Jamie Malanowski, (2007)

Movies

★ ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' (1939).

★ ''Citizen Kane'' (1941).

★ ''All the King's Men'' (1949).

★ ''Advise and Consent'' (1962).

★ ''The Manchurian Candidate'' (1962).

★ ''The Best Man'' (1964).

★ ''Seven Days in May'' (1964).

★ ''Dr. Strangelove'' (1964).

★ ''Faraon'' (1966 Polish feature film based on Bolesław Prus' novel, ''Pharaoh'').

★ ''The Godfather'' (1972).

★ ''The Candidate'' (1972).

★ ''Being There'' (1979).

★ ''Power'' (1986).

★ ''Bob Roberts'' (1992).

★ ''Running Mates'' (1992).

★ ''Dave'' (1993).

★ ''The American President'' (1995).

★ ''My Fellow Americans'' (1996).

★ ''Murder at 1600'' (1997).

★ ''Wag the Dog'' (1997).

★ ''The Peacemaker'' (1997)

★ ''Absolute Power'' (1997).

★ ''Bulworth'' (1998).

★ ''Primary Colors'' (1998).

★ ''The Siege'' (1998).

★ ''Three Kings'' (1999).

★ ''Dick'' (1999).

★ ''Thirteen Days'' (2000).

★ ''The Contender'' (2000).

★ ''The Quiet American'' (2002).

★ ''The Manchurian Candidate'' (2004 remake of the 1962 film).

★ ''All the King's Men'' (2006).

★ ''Man of the Year'' (2006).

★ ''V for Vendetta'' (2006).

★ ''The Lives of Others'' (2006)

Television

★ ''Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy'' (The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma; Polish TV miniseries based on the novel by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, ca. 1980).

★ ''Yes Minister'' (and its sequel, ''Yes, Prime Minister''), by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn (1980–88).

★ ''Edge of Darkness'' (1985).

★ ''A Very British Coup'' (1988).

★ ''Tanner '88'' (1988).

★ ''House of Cards'' (1990).

★ ''Babylon 5'' (1993)

★ ''Nostromo'' (1997).

★ ''The West Wing'' (1999–2006).

★ ''The Wire'' (2001).

★ ''The Project'' (2002).

★ ''Absolute Power'' (2003).

★ ''Commander-in-Chief'' (2005).

★ ''The Thick of It'', by Armando Iannucci (2005).

★ ''Brotherhood'' (2006).

★ ''Party Animals'' (BBC Two, 2007).

See also

★ Political fiction

★ Assassinations in fiction

External links

★ Political Film Society