LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Turner Classic Movies plans to present a series of politically-themed films leading up to Election Day, the cable channel has announced.
The series -- "Party Politics at the Movies" -- will be presented on Thursdays at 10 p.m. during October. The pictures will be introduced by four members of the U.S. Senate -- including Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards of North Carolina.
Edwards will kick off the series on Oct. 7, introducing a showing of Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will introduce Kubrick's 1957 World War I film "Paths of Glory" on Oct. 14.
On Oct. 21, Sen. Joseph R. Biden, D-Del., will introduce the 1989 drama "Dead Poets Society." Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, concludes the series on Oct. 28 with a screening of "To Kill a Mockingbird," the 1962 drama about race and injustice in the American South.
