Since the end of the sixties a small but significant number of political movies have been screened to national and international audiences attending mainstream theatres. But in the last ten years the rate of political film production appears to be on the increase worldwide. Is this a sign that more directors want to use film to influence the electorate’s thinking, or are they just jumping on the ‘social consciousness’ bandwagon driven to such lucrative success by the likes of documentary personalities such as Michael Moore?