Three days before the nation selects the next president of the United States, movie critics Arch Campbell, Ann Hornaday and Bill Newcott present their choices for the top 10 portrayals of presidents on film.
The program will highlight clips from the movies featuring fictional presidents ranging from the heroic to the comical to the corrupt.
Campbell has reported on movies since the 1970s, working at Washington’s NBC4 and ABC7.
Hornaday has been a movie critic for The Washington Post since 2002.
Newcott is creator of AARP’s “Movies for Grownups.”
Inside Media programs are made possible with generous support from Kate Headline in honor of her husband Bill Headline, CNN Washington Bureau Chief from 1983 to 1996.
The event was introduced by John Maynard from the Newseum.
The movies featured in this presentation were:
* Michael Douglas in "The American President" (1995)
* Morgan Freeman in "Deep Impact" (1998)
* Walter Huston in "Gabriel Over the White House" (1933)
* Anthony Hopkins in "Nixon" (1985)
* Kevin Spacey in "Elvis & Nixon" (2016)
* Frank Langella in "Frost/Nixon" (2008)
* Harrison Ford in "Air Force One" (1997)
* Polly Bergen in "Kisses for My President" (1964)
* Peter Sellers in "Dr. Strangelove" (1964)
* Peter Sellers in "Being There" (1979)
* James Gregory in "Manchurian Candidate" (1962)
* Henry Fonda in "The Best Man" (1964)
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