(Photo illustration by Kay Scanlon / Los Angeles Times; photographs from Disney, Netflix and Prime Video) Political thrillers have been a staple of popular culture since the 1960s, when the Cold War ...

Director Kathryn Bigelow's latest political thriller, "A House of Dynamite," may be topping the Netflix charts, but not everyone was impressed by this divisive new Netflix No. 1 movie. Its ending ...

The Diplomat season 3 has officially arrived on Netflix, and its success is a sign that the streaming service's 12-year-old political thriller problem has finally been addressed. Over the last decade, ...

Longtime Netflix subscribers should know by now that the streamer rarely lets its original movies play in theaters before their debut. This week, there's a rare exception as director Kathryn Bigelow's ...

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Unlike in the real world, where politics can often be dreary, on the small screen, writers can spice up political fiction and nonfiction with potboiler plots and ripped-from-the-headlines drama. Case ...

Political thrillers have been a staple of popular culture since the 1960s, when the Cold War threw conspiracy theory-loving writers into overdrive, and television and film are no exception. This year, ...