Presidents Day 2021: 13 Best Netflix Movies & Shows Featuring Real Or Fake POTUS
02/15/21 AT 9:00 AM
Presidents Day 2021 has arrived, and if you’re planning on spending the day off watching Netflix, why not binge on some great films and TV shows about Presidents? The streaming service has several great options in all kinds of genres that deal with both the legacies of real US presidents and hopefuls, as well as some fake POTUS characters as well.
Here are the best presidential movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix for Presidents Day this year.
“Angel Has Fallen” (2019)
Authorities take Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) into custody for the failed assassination attempt of U.S. President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman). After escaping from his captors, Banning must evade the FBI and his own agency to find the real threat to the president. Desperate to uncover the truth, he soon turns to unlikely allies to help clear his name and save the country from immin
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The United States presidential line of succession, while not the most exciting thing we learned in civics class in high school, is a fundamental part of the federal government that ensures that someone is always in charge. This has been used as a plot device time and time again in various movies and TV shows and is usually treated as a serious matter. There are times, however, like in
XXX: State of the Union where Ice Cubeâs character must thwart a plan by a nefarious and power-hungry government official to take out the president and everyone else in front of him to become the leader of the free world.
“Olympus Has Fallen” was a pornographically violent crapfest that
took the standard “Die Hard” template, located it within the confines of a
White House being attacked by Korean terrorists and tried to use such sights as
the White House in flames, hundreds of corpses on the front lawn and the female
Secretary of Defense being brutally beaten as the inspiration for the ensuing
orgy of shootings, stabbings, neck-breakings and quips delivered by star Gerard
Butler. A truly odious work, it wasn’t even the best White House-set “Die
Hard” knock-off released in 2013 the Channing Tatum/Jamie Foxx vehicle “White
House Down” was an infinitely better film that didn t make you feel as if you