Kennedy assassination movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant kennedy assassination movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, political, tense, suspenseful and independent film films and TV shows about / with kennedy assassination, assassination, conspiracy, state affairs, president, politics, murder, u.s. president, john f. kennedy and dishonesty plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as kennedy assassination: 11.22.63 (2016), JFK (1991), Interview with the Assassin (2002), Flashpoint (1984), Killing Kennedy (2013), Executive Action (1973), The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977), I as in Icarus (1979), Frame of Mind (2009), Jackie (2016).

List of kennedy assassination movies

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 120K
11.22.63 (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
Style: exciting, stylized, period piece, tense, intense ...
Plot: time travel, assassination, stephen king, time, kennedy assassination, changing the past or future, altering history, time traveler, love, surveillance, conspiracy theory, sent to the past ...
Time: 60s, future, 2010s, 20th century, year 1963 ...
Place: usa, dallas texas
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 8.0
 181K
JFK (1991)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 189 min.
Story: New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
Style: tense, political thriller, controversial, political, disturbing ...
Plot: investigation, assassination, kennedy assassination, president, political conspiracy, conspiracy theory, legal, politics, cia, assassination of president, cold war era, courtroom ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s, year 1991, year 1963
Place: america, washington d.c., north america, midwest, chile ...
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Interview with the Assassin (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Out of work TV cameraman Ron Kobelski is approached by his formerly reclusive neighbor Walter Ohlinger. Ohlinger claims that he was the mysterious "second gunman" that shot and killed President Kennedy. Ohlinger has kept quiet all these ...
Style: political, tense, suspenseful, realistic, mockumentary ...
Plot: kennedy assassination, conspiracy, politics, found footage, assassination, conspiracy theory, investigation, state affairs, political conspiracy, murder, society, u.s. president ...
Time: year 2002, year 1963, 21st century
Place: dallas texas, america, usa, texas
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 6.4
 3K
Flashpoint (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried for 20 years in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. They decide to keep the money, but quietly check up on the info they find. Soon the Feds are running all over ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kennedy assassination, police detective, border patrol, conspiracy, police investigation, danger, witnessing a crime, tough law enforcer, partners against crime, political conspiracy, assassination, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 80s, year 1963
Place: texas, usa, san antonio texas, austin texas
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Killing Kennedy (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Drama documentary based on Bill O'Reilly's and Martin Dugard's 2012 non-fiction book "Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot". It follows the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald from the winter 1959-1960 to ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, stylized, captivating ...
Plot: kennedy assassination, head of state, politics, assassination, couple relations, state affairs, brother brother relationship, american politics, husband wife relationship, death of brother, president, john f. kennedy ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1963, year 1962
Place: usa, washington d.c., texas, russia, dallas texas
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Executive Action (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.
Style: political thriller, political, neo noir, independent film, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, assassination, paranoia, murder, corruption, assassination of president, conspiracy theory, kennedy assassination, cia, intelligence agency, assassin, sniper ...
Time: year 1963
Place: dallas texas
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story: The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.
Style: historical drama, thought provoking, serious, bleak, tense ...
Plot: conspiracy, kennedy assassination, courtroom drama, assassination, alternate history, controversy, investigation, political intrigue, moral ambiguity, justice, realism, assassination of president ...
Time: 60s
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I as in Icarus (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The film's plot is based on the Kennedy assassination and subsequent investigation. The film begins with the assassination of President Marc Jarry, who is about to be inaugurated for a second six-year term of office. Henri Volney, state ...
Style: political, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: political conspiracy, conspiracy, government corruption, assassination, kennedy assassination, coup d'etat, uncover truth, witnessing a crime, political corruption, legal investigation, dedicated lawyer, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: france, yale university
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 4.7
 513
Frame of Mind (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: What happens when the truth is not enough? A New Jersey police detective comes across new evidence in the Kennedy assassination
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: uncover truth, assassination, political conspiracy, state affairs, law enforcement, danger, dishonesty, kennedy assassination, conspiracy, profanity, violent content, moving ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey
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 6.6
 87K
Jackie (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France, Chile, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Style: period piece, emotional, cerebral, sad, heartbreaking ...
Plot: president, first lady, american history, kennedy assassination, assassination, u.s. president, loss of husband, biopic, widow, funeral, strong female character, depression ...
Time: 60s, year 2016, 90s, 2010s, year 1963
Place: usa, washington d.c., austin texas, america, texas ...
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Across the River to Motor City (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Across the River to Motor City is a Canadian television drama series, that aired on Citytv stations. It debuted November 22, 2007. The series is about an insurance investigator named Ben Ford who works the border in both Detroit and Windsor. The ...
Style: suspenseful, crime drama, tense, psychological, thrilling ...
Audience: adult
Plot: conspiracy, murder, kennedy assassination, loss, family secret, cold case, investigation, missing person, relationships, past, secret past, deception ...
Time: 60s, 2000s
Place: detroit, michigan, ontario canada
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Running Against Time (1990)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time-traveling college professor goes back to the '60s but can't find his way out. Trapped in a time warp, he can't effect a change because he ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, serious, exciting
Plot: time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, vietnam war, president, kennedy family, tv reporter, history teacher, race against time, state affairs, imaginary, chases and races ...
Place: vietnam, asia, dallas texas
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Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993)
Genre: Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flashbacks, the story traces the woman's life from her days in Russia, the turmoil following the assassination, raising her family, and coming to ...
Style: political, thought provoking, melancholic, period piece, psychological ...
Plot: assassination, widow, conspiracy, biopic, american history, controversy, trauma, mourning, grief, flashback, kennedy assassination, paranoia ...
Time: 60s
Place: north america
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 6.4
 19K
Parkland (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions ...
Style: tense, serious, factual, light, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: secret service, assassination, hospital, fbi, president, kennedy assassination, conspiracy theory, investigation, state affairs, doctors and patients, society, power relations ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: dallas texas, usa, austin texas, texas, california
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 6.4
 3K
Panther (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some ...
Style: political, controversial, disturbing, period piece, cult classic ...
Plot: black panthers, hip hop, racism, african american, black, conspiracy, revolution, marxist, politics, civil rights movement, civil rights, brutality ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 60s
Place: america, vietnam, oakland california, sacramento california, california ...
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Deep in the Heart (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.
Style: independent film, sexual, sexy
Plot: rape, female nudity, revenge, sexual assault, rape and revenge, vengeance, teacher, lawyer, stalking, rapist, stalker, harassment ...
Place: texas, austin texas, america, dallas texas, usa ...
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 8.6
 279K
The Crown (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, costume drama, clever, period piece ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: royal family, british royal family, queen, monarchy, monarch, british history, royalty, winston churchill, queen elizabeth ii, british monarchy, prime minister, politics ...
Time: 50s, 2000s, 1940s, 1950s, 70s ...
Place: england, buckingham palace, london, wales, syria ...
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The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Andy and his friends take a pair of x-ray goggles from a secret lab by mistake.
Style: independent film
Audience: kids
Plot: high school, spy, stepfather, adopted son, research facility, spying, sarcasm, teen romance, respect, outcast, kennedy assassination, children ...
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The J-K Conspiracy (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: San Diego radio host Dave Rickards is accused of stealing his partner's encyclopedia, triggering a comedic misadventure co-starring Bob Costas, Dom Irrera, Doug Flutie, Davy Jones, Dr. Laura Schlessinger and Don Rickles. Along the way you are ...
Style: light hearted, mockumentary, parody, offbeat, slapstick ...
Plot: satire, media satire, celebrity culture, conspiracy theory, behind the scenes, deadpan, mistaken identity, conspiracy, flashback, office, party, political intrigue ...
Place: san diego california, southern california
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now ...
Style: black and white, neo noir, political, independent film, serious ...
Plot: politics, biopic, john f. kennedy, intrigue, nixon, cold war, fbi, president, gangster, government agency, head of state, law enforcement ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, 60s, 1930s, 20th century ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, los angeles, california, chicago
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Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 163 min.
Story: They were more than Washington wives. They were part of an American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image by concealing their private truths. Jackie, Ethel and Joan had little choice. They were Kennedy ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, political, bleak ...
Plot: kennedy family, politics, introspection, rise to the top, ambition, state affairs, society, head of state, crumbling marriage, family life, family tradition, relationship vs career ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 80s
Place: cuba, usa, texas
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 7.7
 659
Kennedy (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 282 min.
TV show
Story: Biography of the 1961-1963 presidency of John F. Kennedy
Style: political, captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic ...
Plot: politics, u.s. president, president, crisis, biopic, american politics, cuban missile crisis, kennedy family, missile, intrigue, north american history, vietnam war ...
Time: 60s
Place: washington d.c., cuba, north america, usa, dallas texas
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Postcards from America (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Inspired by the autobiographical writings of David Wojnarowicz, "Postcards From America" chronicles the abuse the artist suffered as a child at the hands of his father and his subsequent running away to New York to become a street hustler.
Style: semi autobiographical, independent film, queer cinema, gay cinema
Plot: lgbt, writers, painter, gay subtext, city, drag queen, sadomasochism, prostitution, art collector, kennedy assassination, domestic violence, male prostitute ...
Place: new york
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The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.
Style: parody, humorous, funny, spoof, absurd ...
Plot: satire, sex scene, female nudity, culture clash, peeping tom, masturbation, adaptation, storytelling, unlikely friendships, disorder, family relations, journalism ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1957, 1950s, 50s ...
Place: kansas, arizona, new york, manhattan new york city, texas ...
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 5.6
 4K
Greetings (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An offbeat, episodic film about three friends, Paul, a shy love-seeker, Lloyd, a vibrant conspiracy nut, and Jon, an aspiring filmmaker and peeping tom. The film satirizes free-love, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, and amateur film-making.
Style: funny, light, cult classic, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: voyeur, bookstore, peeping, sexuality, book, film industry, exodus, voyeurism, satire, partner, looking for love, anti war ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, asia, usa, vietnam
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A Bright Shining Lie (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion. However, he disagrees vocally (and on the record) with ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: vietnam war, vietcong, soldier, military, adultery, corruption, adulterous husband, ambassador, peasant, womanizer, patriotism, helicopter ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, saigon, asia, indochina
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 5.3
 756
Timequest (2000)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A story about a man who travels back in time to Fort Worth, Texas on Novemeber 22, 1963 and prevents the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Style: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, head of state, heroic mission, political conspiracy, race against time, dishonesty, assassination, on the run, state affairs, politics, government agency ...
Time: 60s, future, 20th century
Place: texas, dallas texas
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 5.5
 2K
Ruby (1992)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.
Style: neo noir, independent film, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: spy, nightclub, assassination plot, killer, john f. kennedy, italian mafia, professional killer, cia agent, italian gangster, corruption, mafia, conspiracy ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, year 1992, 60s
Place: usa, chicago, texas
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 7.2
 16K
All the Way (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the ...
Style: factual, realistic, tense, intense, talky ...
Plot: politics, racism, closeted homosexual, civil rights, president, u.s. president, african american, propaganda, biopic, election, civil rights movement, usa president ...
Time: year 2016, year 1963, 60s
Place: texas, dallas texas, america, vietnam, usa ...
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 6.2
 4K
Winter Kills (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avoid his wealthy and domineering father's attempts to control his actions, Nick follows the ...
Style: dark comedy, anamorphic, neo noir, surreal, political ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, assassination of president, assassination, winter, sex scene, bare breasts, female nudity, assassin, chess, cop, basement, paranoid ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century, year 1959, 60s ...
Place: philadelphia, new york, havana cuba, cleveland ohio, malaysia ...
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