All the Way (2016)

This film follows the first year of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency from the assassination of Kennedy to his own election almost a year later. Much focus is spent on the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the pressure that MLK and other Black leaders placed in getting it passed. It’s a fairly standard biopic made much stronger by an embodying performance by Bryan Cranston. The film covers many of LBJ’s well-known quirks and also goes far in connecting the passage of the Act with the Democrats’ loss of their former Southern stronghold.