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Politics in fiction

This is a list of fictional stories in which politics features as an important plot element. Passing mentions are omitted from this list.

Plato
Thomas More
Miguel de Cervantes
Ignacy Krasicki
Benjamin Disraeli
Turgenev
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Henrik Ibsen
Henry Adams
Henry James
Anthony Hope
Bolesław Prus
Joseph Conrad
Władysław Reymont
Upton Sinclair
Martín Luis Guzmán
Aldous Huxley
Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
George Orwell
Robert Penn Warren
Gore Vidal
Barbara Boxer

Written works

Film

Mike Judge, director of Idiocracy (2006)

Television

  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1962–63)
  • Slattery's People (1964–65)
  • The Prisoner (1967)
  • Grandpa Goes to Washington (1978-1979)
  • Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy (1980 Polish TV miniseries)
  • Yes Minister (and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister) (1980–88)
  • Edge of Darkness (1985)
  • First Among Equals (1986)
  • The New Statesman (1987–94)
  • A Very British Coup (1988)
  • Tanner '88 (1988)
  • House of Cards (1990)
  • Babylon 5 (1993)
  • To Play the King (1993)
  • The Politician's Wife (1995)
  • The Final Cut (1995)
  • Spin City (1996–2002)
  • Nostromo (1997)
  • Smallville (2001–11)
  • 24 (2001–10)
  • The Wire (2002–08)
  • The Project (2002)
  • Absolute Power (2003, 2005)
  • Battlestar Galactica (2004)
  • Commander-in-Chief (2005)
  • The Thick of It (2005–12)
  • Brotherhood (2006)
  • Party Animals (BBC Two, 2007)
  • Parks and Recreation (2009–15)
  • The Good Wife (2009–16)
  • Boardwalk Empire (2010–14)
  • Downton Abbey (2010–15)
  • Game of Thrones (2011–19)
  • The Hour (2011–12)
  • Boss (2011–12)
  • Homeland (2011-)
  • Scandal (2012–)
  • Political Animals (2012)
  • Veep (2012–19)
  • House of Cards (US) (2012–18)
  • Orange is the New Black (2013–)
  • Wentworth (original Australian title: Wentworth Prison) (2013–)
  • The Politician's Husband (2013)
  • Rectify (2013–16)
  • The Best Laid Plans (2014)
  • The Red Road (2014–15)
  • The Honourable Woman (2014)
  • Madam Secretary (2014–)
  • The Code (2014–)
  • Utopia (Australian TV series, titled Dreamland elsewhere) (2014–)
  • Gotham (2014–2019)
  • American Crime (2015–17)
  • The Same Sky (2016)
  • BrainDead (2016)
  • Designated Survivor (2016–)
  • The Good Fight (2017–)
  • Wildflower (2017-2018)

Musicals

Comic strips

See also

External links

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