10 Movies To Watch If You Love The West Wing

10 Movies To Watch If You Love The West Wing

The West Wing was created by Aaron Sorkin and premiered on NBC in 1999, lasting for seven seasons. Here’s what fans can watch next.

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The West Wing was created by Aaron Sorkin and premiered on NBC in 1999. The series lasted for seven seasons, ending in 2006. This series was the first of its kind in that it showed what life in The White House was like for a fictional president and his fictional staff, but used facts and current events to tell the story.

The series starred Martin Sheen, Bradley Whitford, Rob Lowe, and a young Elisabeth Moss and was praised by critics and fans. This series is also credited with being where the now-classic “walk and talk” scene originated, thanks to the pilot’s director, Thomas Schlamme. The series is available in its entirety on Netflix, but if you’re looking for something for your next movie night, here are a few suggestions.

10 Vice

This Academy Award-nominated feature film tells the story of Vice President Dick Cheney and his life leading up to his Vice Presidency and running with George W. Bush in the 2000 election.

The film boasts an incredible cast with Christian Bale playing the title character, Sam Rockwell as President George W. Bush, and Steve Carell at Donald Rumsfeld. Fans who always wondered how much truth there was to The West Wing’s storylines will certainly love playing the same game with this movie.

9 Independence Day

If you love The West Wing but always wish it had a little more action and maybe a few more fight scenes in every episode, Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day should be queued up for your next movie night.

This movie imagines what might happen if aliens from outer space really did come to our planet with hostile intentions. The movie stars Will Smith as Captain Steven Hiller, one of the men in charge of saving the day, and Bill Pullman as President of the United States.

8 The Post

This historical political thriller, set during the Nixon administration in the late ’60s and early ’70s. It tells the story of “The Washington Post” and the newspaper’s role in the events that led to Watergate and President Nixon’s impeachment and eventual resignation.

The film stars Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. If you loved watching Bradley Whitford and Rob Lowe exchange blows in every episode of The West Wing you’re going to love the scenes between Streep and Hanks.

7 Chasing Liberty

In The West Wing, Elisabeth Moss plays Zoey Bartlet, daughter to The President of the United States. Viewers get to see Zoey grow up with every new season and even fall in love with Charlie Young, a presidential aide.

Fans who loved that storyline will love the romantic teen film, Chasing Liberty, starring Mandy Moore as the president’s daughter who desperately wants to escape the walls of her father’s job and branch out on her own adventures.

6 Lincoln

This Academy Award wining bio-pic stars Daniel Day Lewis as the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It also stars Sally Field as Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd.

The 2012 film focuses on the final four months of Lincoln’s life and the events leading up to his assassination. Fans who love the history and true events that inspire the writing on The West Wing will love this feature film, directed by Steven Spielberg.

5 Get Out

Bradley Whitford shines in this political series that really launched him into a new stratosphere of stardom. If you love Bradley Whitford, you will absolutely love his performance in the suspense thriller, Get Out, written and directed by Jordan Peele.

This movie is not your average scary story. It is a thought-provoking thriller that addresses racism and societal issues in present-day America in a truly terrifying way.

4 Forrest Gump

In the same way The West Wing tells a fictional story about real events, the Academy Award-winning feature film, Forrest Gump, takes audiences through the life of a fictional character, but places him in true historical events.

In the year of its release, this film took home Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film Editing. The film has become an American classic over the years and if you haven’t seen it, you should put it at the very top of your watch list,

3 The American President

For fans looking for more of a love story and less of a political drama, check out 1995’s The American President starring Michael Douglas as the president and Annette Benning as the woman who falls in love with him.

This feature film was written by Aaron Sorkin, so it almost seems as though it was Sorkin’s warm-up to The West Wing to figure out if there was an audience for political drama, and luckily Aaron Sorkin found out there was.

2 Dave

The West Wing delivers a lot of laughs. The series does an excellent job of balancing it’s serious nature with its humor so fans never feel overwhelmed by either.

Dave is a film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Kevin Kline that focuses solely on making its audience laugh. This film is about a man named Dave, played by Kline, who works a side job impersonating the President of the United States, frequently impersonating him for security reasons with the help of the secret service.

1 Armageddon

The 1998 science fiction disaster film, Armageddon, is great for fans of The West Wing looking for more adventure, but who also love the emotional arcs throughout the series.

This film, directed by Michael Bay and starring Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler, and Ben Affleck, is about a group of astronauts who have to save the world from a meteor that is headed straight for the planet. The film ends with one of the saddest, yet most heroic scenes audiences have ever seen.

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