Must-Watch Films for International Relations Students

By: Lee

Films that I think covered the vast range of topics in the International Relations’ studies.
That’s why you’ll find Pom Poko and Howl in this list, as well as The Whistleblower and In The Loop.

• 01
  The Whistleblower
  Larysa Kondracki
• 02
  In the Loop
  Armando Iannucci
• 03
  Food, Inc.
  Robert Kenner
• 04
  District 9
  Neill Blomkamp
• 05
  Children of Men
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 06
  Pom Poko
  Isao Takahata
• 07
  Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
  Hiroyuki Okiura
• 08
  Babies
  Thomas Balmès
• 09
  Babel
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
• 10
  Thank You for Smoking
  Jason Reitman
• 11
  Lord of War
  Andrew Niccol
• 12
  Tjoet Nja' Dhien
  Eros Djarot
• 13
  The Betrayal of The 30 September Movement by Indonesian Communist Party
  Arifin C. Noer
• 14
  The September Issue
  R. J. Cutler
• 15
  V for Vendetta
  James McTeigue
• 16
  Innocent Voices
  Luis Mandoki
• 17
  The English Patient
  Anthony Minghella
• 18
  Grave of the Fireflies
  Isao Takahata
• 19
  Letters from Iwo Jima
  Clint Eastwood
• 20
  Flags of Our Fathers
  Clint Eastwood
• 21
  The Road to Guantanamo
  Michael Winterbottom
• 22
  Schindler's List
  Steven Spielberg
• 23
  Thirteen Days
  Roger Donaldson
• 24
  The Ghost Writer
  Roman Polanski
• 25
  The International
  Tom Tykwer
• 26
  Inside Man
  Spike Lee
• 27
  Balibo
  Robert Connolly
• 28
  Howl
  Rob Epstein
• 29
  1984
  Michael Radford
• 30
  The Bridge on the River Kwai
  David Lean
• 31
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 32
  The Last Emperor
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 33
  Lawrence of Arabia
  David Lean
• 34
  Offside
  Jafar Panahi
• 35
  Persepolis
  Vincent Paronnaud
• 36
  Hotel Rwanda
  Terry George
• 37
  The Hurt Locker
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 38
  Infernal Affairs
  Andrew Lau Wai-keung
• 39
  Never Let Me Go
  Mark Romanek
• 40
  Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  Stanley Kramer
• 41
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 42
  Midnight Cowboy
  John Schlesinger
• 43
  Bobby
  Emilio Estevez
• 44
  All the President's Men
  Alan J. Pakula
• 45
  Fair Game
  Doug Liman
• 46
  Centurion
  Neil Marshall
• 47
  Captain America: The First Avenger
  Joe Johnston
• 48
  Fahrenheit 9/11
  Michael Moore
• 49
  Bowling for Columbine
  Michael Moore
• 50
  Sicko
  Michael Moore
• 51
  Monty Python's Life of Brian
  Terry Jones
• 52
  The Last King of Scotland
  Kevin Macdonald
• 53
  Sid & Nancy
  Alex Cox
• 54
  Margin Call
  J.C. Chandor
• 55
  Syriana
  Stephen Gaghan
• 56
  Contagion
  Steven Soderbergh
• 57
  The Dark Knight
  Christopher Nolan
• 58
  The Graduate
  Mike Nichols
• 59
  Duck Soup
  Leo McCarey
• 60
  Green Zone
  Paul Greengrass
• 61
  The History Boys
  Nicholas Hytner
• 62
  The Act of Killing
  Joshua Oppenheimer
• 63
  J. Edgar
  Clint Eastwood
• 64
  Outbreak
  Wolfgang Petersen
• 65
  The Guard
  John Michael McDonagh
• 66
  After the Curfew
  Usmar Ismail
• 67
  Blade Runner
  Ridley Scott
• 68
  Judgment at Nuremberg
  Stanley Kramer
• 69
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 70
  To Kill a Mockingbird
  Robert Mulligan
• 71
  Waiting for 'Superman'
  Davis Guggenheim
• 72
  The Sunset Limited
  Tommy Lee Jones
• 73
  Vanilla Sky
  Cameron Crowe
• 74
  Dogma
  Kevin Smith
• 75
  The Iron Lady
  Phyllida Lloyd
• 76
  My Neighbors the Yamadas
  Isao Takahata