Movies and TvShows featuring "local-government" theme.

A senior London bureaucrat, Rodney Williams, receives a grim cancer diagnosis and decides to take time off work. He meets Mr. Sutherland, an insomniac writer, and they spend a night on the town. Williams tries to tell his son about his condition but fails. As his health worsens, he spends time with a former colleague, Miss Harris. Determined to do some good before he dies, Williams rallies his office to build a children's playground. He passes away shortly after its completion.

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) is a TV mini-series that delves into the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. Through interviews and footage, it exposes government incompetence, the flooding disaster, and the struggles faced by the city's residents.

The Beiderbecke Affair is a comedy-drama TV show set in England. It revolves around a schoolteacher who gets tangled up in a corruption scandal involving the local government and the police. The story is driven by a love for jazz and takes place in Leeds, England. Based on a novel, this TV mini-series explores the quirky adventures of the main characters.

Tomorrow is a documentary that showcases various solutions to environmental and societal challenges, focusing on sustainable agriculture, local economies, and renewable energy. It discusses alternative models to capitalism and the importance of cooperation and community involvement. The film takes viewers to different locations around the world, including Iceland, Copenhagen, Denmark, Chennai, India, and highlights innovative initiatives in each place. It also explores the impact of industrialization on the environment and the tipping point towards mass extinction.

A Touch of Zen follows the story of a young artist who becomes entangled in the world of martial arts, corruption, and enlightenment in 14th century China. Set in a mountain village, the artist discovers a plot by corrupt officials and an evil eunuch, and must use his skills to defend himself and his loved ones. Along the way, he finds guidance from a Buddhist monk and learns the ways of the Zen philosophy. The film is a mesmerizing blend of action, drama, and spirituality.

Basic Sanitation, the Movie is a comedy film that follows a furniture salesman in Brazil who decides to make a film about the local sewage system. Along the way, he experiences various personal relationships and encounters with government bureaucracy.

White Lies (1998) is a powerful drama about the consequences of hate and racism in a small town. The film explores the story of a journalist who uncovers a white power group and its destructive actions, leading to a series of unexpected events. As the journalist delves deeper into the dark world of racism, he is forced to confront his own prejudices and reevaluate his beliefs. With powerful performances and thought-provoking themes, White Lies is a harrowing tale that exposes the deep-rooted issues in society.

An ambitious city councilman has his life turned upside down when he discovers that his every move is being filmed by a camera crew that only he can see.

The Revisionaries is a thought-provoking documentary about the battle over education standards in Texas, focusing on the State Board of Education and their controversial decisions regarding topics such as evolution, religion, and science. The film raises questions about the separation of church and state, the influence of conservative politics on education, and the impact on students' knowledge and critical thinking skills.

Mayor is a documentary film that follows the journey of the mayor of Ramallah, Palestine, as he navigates the challenges of governing a city under occupation. It explores his role in the local government, his interactions with the Israeli authorities, and the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the daily lives of the residents. The film provides a unique perspective on the complexities of the situation and sheds light on the struggles faced by the Palestinian people.

Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' stories are used to explain certain sections of the Labelling of Food Regulations 1970.

Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.

Documentary about the environmental policies and tree-planting campaigns of the Chinese state, and the eucalyptus plantations of the Finnish forestry company Stora Enso in Guangxi province and their impact on the lives and livelihoods of local residents.

Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge construction site, but he quickly finds himself clashing against the local decision-makers. The bridge engineer is also popular with the ladies and, being a man of energy, he manages to take care of several of his admirers at once.

M is the most esteemed professional of the many girls at Scarlet's but, even on her birthday, it's business as usual. M's trade is sex, but sex doesn't sell the way it used to; what clients are searching for, paying for, is love.

Second in the series by the Maysles brothers documenting the monuments/sculptures of Christo, whose art projects are landscape-scaled, and more "pop" performance art designed to question how we relate to art in the public sphere, especially when it's as oblique, non-political (at least, that is what he would claim), and neutral as running a fence through a landscape.