This is a list of political biography films. It includes any biographical films about politicians, heads of state, or people who were otherwise mainly known for their political involvement.
Australia John Curtin
Curtin (2007)
Bob Hawke, Prime Minister. Hawke (2010)
Canada Jack Layton
Jack (2013)
John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister
One Canadian: The Political Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. John G. Diefenbaker (1976; miniseries)
Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Prime Minister
Trudeau (2002; miniseries)
China Puyi The Last Emperor Mao Zedong Mao Zedong 1949 Deng Xiaoping Deng Xiaoping
Germany
Adolf Hitler Downfall
India Jawaharlal Nehru
Our Prime Minister (1957)
Narendra Modi PM Narendra Modi (2019) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Swatantrya Veer Savarkar (2024)
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Jai Jawaan Jai Kisaan (2015)
Manmohan Singh
The Accidental Prime Minister (2019) Yogi Adityanath
Ajey: The Untold Story of a Yogi (2025)
Iraq Saddam Hussein
Al-ayyam al-tawila (1980)
Israel Golda Meir, Prime Minister
Golda (film)
Italy Benito Mussolini
The Assassination of Matteotti (1973)
Benito (1993)
Fairytale (2022)
I'm Back (2018)
Last Days of Mussolini (1974) Lion of the Desert (1981)
Mussolini and I (1985)
Vincere (2009; about first wife Ida Dalser)
Galeazzo Ciano
Mussolini and I (1985)
Giacomo Matteotti
The Assassination of Matteotti (1973)
Giulio Andreotti, Prime Minister. Il divo Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister. Loro Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister. Anno uno
Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Jinnah (1998)
Philippines Manuel L. Quezon, President Quezon's Game
Russia and Soviet Union Joseph Stalin The Death of Stalin (2017) Stalin (1992)
South Africa Nelson Mandela Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) Endgame (2009) Goodbye Bafana (2007) Invictus (2009) Mandela (1987) Mandela (1996) Mandela's Gun (2016) Winnie Mandela (2011)
Uganda Idi Amin The Last King of Scotland (2006) Operation Thunderbolt (1977)
Raid on Entebbe (1977) Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981) Victory at Entebbe (1976)
United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher Margaret The Iron Lady
Tony Blair The Deal The Special Relationship
British royalty
Elizabeth I Elizabeth Elizabeth II The Queen (2006) A Royal Night Out (2015) United States
George W. Bush, 43rd president. W. Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president. LBJ John F. Kennedy, 35th president. JFK Ted Kennedy, senator. Chappaquiddick Abraham Lincoln, 16th president. Lincoln Richard Nixon, 37th president. Nixon Ronald Reagan, 40th president.
Reagan
Harvey Milk, San Francisco council member. Milk Dick Cheney, 46th vice president. Vice Donald Trump, 45th and 47th president.
The Apprentice
JD Vance, 50th vice president.
Hillbilly Elegy
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