Best "debate" Movies of All Time

23 movies found (page 1/1):

The Rum Diary(2011)

3.0/5 (with 568 votes)

Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s 'The Lost Generation', Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman and her fiancée, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.

Directed by Bruce Robinson - With Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Amber Heard, Richard Jenkins, Giovanni Ribisi, ...

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Gramps Is in the Resistance(1983)

1h 42min | Comedy, War

3.5/5 (with 166 votes)

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

Directed by Jean-Marie Poiré - With Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru, Roland Giraud, Gérard Jugnot, Martin Lamotte, Dominique Lavanant, ...

Best of Enemies(2015)

1h 27min | Documentary, History

3.6/5 (with 61 votes)

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers, and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, "What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?".

Directed by Morgan Neville

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Dry Martina(2018)

1h 35min | Comedy, Drama

3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

Martina was a famous singer in Argentina during the late 90s, who's become completely frigid and disenchanted with love. The arrival of a so-called sister, alongside her attractive boyfriend, compel Martina to go to Chile with one objective in mind: getting back her libido.

Directed by Che Sandoval - With Antonella Costa, Patricio Contreras, Fernando Guzzoni

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Abraham Lincoln(1930)

1h 36min | History, Drama

2.6/5 (with 15 votes)

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Frank Campeau, Helen Freeman, Helen Ware, ...

God on Trial(2008)

| 1h 26min | History, War

3.5/5 (with 27 votes)

In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.

Directed by Andy De Emmony - With Antony Sher, Rupert Graves, Jack Shepherd

The Secret Life of Brian(2007)

| 50min | Documentary

3.8/5 (with 18 votes)

A documentary about the making of the controversial Life of Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy.

Orizaba's Peak(2017)

11min | Comedy, Drama

0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In a cozy bistro, an increasingly heated discussion between two good buddies reveals their latent sexual prejudices, as one admits to feeling finally set free by a book he has just read.

Punyalan Private Limited(2017)

2h 8min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

A budding entrepreneur fights social injustice in his bid to establish his new business.

Directed by Ranjith Sankar

Debating Robert Lee(2004)

| 1h 48min | Drama

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A group of jaded high school students sign up for a debate class taught by a tough, combative teacher from the Georgia Military Academy who teaches them that life is debate and DEBATE IS WAR.

Directed by Dan Polier - With Dale Midkiff, Kaley Cuoco, Danielle Harris, Billy Kay, Luke Edwards, Beau Bridges, ...

Spin(1995)

57min | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

A documentary about the 1992 U.S. presidential election based on pirated satellite feeds.

Directed by Brian Springer - With Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Laura Bush, Jon Voight, George H. W. Bush, Pat Robertson, ...

What Is a Good Tax?(2019)

52min | Documentary, TV Movie

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Too high, misused, unfair... a large part of the French and Europeans criticize taxes. From tax-rascal to tax revolt, the movement of yellow vests in France has returned to the center of attention the question of consent to tax. How to explain a different resistance to taxes from one country to another without tax pressure being an explanation? Is there a "good" tax? Jean Quatremer takes us on a journey to the tax center across Europe, to meet those who pay it, those who decide it, those who study it... or those who allow to avoid it.

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Mission Control Texas(2015)

1h 28min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

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Directed by Ralf Bücheler

Uncensored Science: Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham(2014)

| 2h 46min | Documentary

2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Bill Nye and Ken Ham debate whether creation is a viable model of origins in today's modern scientific era.

The Last Days of Anne Boleyn(2013)

1h | Documentary

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Writers and historians including Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory revisit the last days of Anne Boleyn, who in 1536 became the first queen in British history to be executed.

Town Bloody Hall(1979)

1h 28min | Documentary

2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of Women's Liberation.

Directed by D. A. Pennebaker

The Disputation(1986)

1h 5min | Drama, History

In 1263, King James I of Aragon organizes a debate between representatives of Judaism and Christianity regarding whether or not Jesus was the Messiah.

Directed by Geoffrey Sax

Girl Talk(2022)

1h 32min | Documentary

Set in the cutthroat, boy-dominated world of high school debate where tomorrow’s leaders are groomed, GIRL TALK tells the timely story of five girls on a diverse, top-ranked Massachusetts high school debate team as they strive to become the best debaters in the United States on their own terms.

The God Delusion Debate(2007)

1h 52min | Documentary

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

On October 3rd of 2007 in Birmingham, Alabama, Professor Richard Dawkins and his Oxford University colleague Professor John Lennox engaged in a lively debate over what is arguably the most critical question of our time: the existence of God. The debate centered on Dawkins's views as expressed in his best-seller, The God Delusion, and their validity over and against the Christian faith. Both presenters agreed to the format and topics of discussion. It was one of the great debates of the last 100 years and is well worth watching and studying.

The Fate of America(1997)

1h 21min | Documentary, History

Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Whose version of this historic event should prevail? Is history best served by documentary or fiction? We also meet Baron Georges Savarin de Marestan and Andrew Wolfe-Burroughs, direct descendants of Montcalm and Wolfe, both of whom died in the battle that would give birth to Canada and to the province of Quebec.

Directed by Jacques Godbout

A Trip to the Desert(2016)

12min | Drama

1.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Three best friends take a trip to the desert, and their friendship is put to the test. Lior, who is openly gay, and religious Jew Elad, suddenly have to face each other's life choices. And Yossi - Where the hell is Yossi?

Directed by Lior Haen, Nizan Lotem

The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature(1971)

1h 10min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The Chomsky–Foucault debate was a debate about human nature, between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault in the Netherlands, in November 1971. Chomsky and Foucault were invited by the Dutch philosopher Fons Elders to discuss an age-old question: "is there such a thing as 'innate' human nature independent of our experiences and external influences?".

Dearest, Heart(2022)

15min | Drama, Kids & Family

Since the mother left, the relationship between Aksa and his father, Anton becomes tenuous. Anton still have deep worries over his wife's left and becomes apathetic to Aksa. Their cold and full of tension relationship makes Aksa can't communicate with Anton well.

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