Movie #2753 "The Final Year" I recommend you see this to remember just how much our president, national security advisor, secretary of State Kerry and others did for our national security the final year of Obama's presidency. The HBO camera follows them as they feverishly try to do as much as they can to insure our reputation is solid and our country safe and humanitarian issues are being addressed before Obama left office --- they were working on their foreign policy legacy, which they made their focus that last year --- and ironically while the next president was tweeting all kinds of superfluous stuff that just divided our country more and more. The highest point in the film happens to be one of the the lowest point in our American history (in my opinion) - you guessed it, the 2016 election, and that sent them packing and moving on full off worries of what was to come next. The film does manage to try to raise our spirits by taking Obama's comments about how important and powerful the "citizen" of our country can be ---- but still, the film is very sad to us who know how much dismantling of Obama's legacy has happened since that final year of Obama's presidency. Still, I recommend this film to watch to see what we did have back in 2016........and maybe someday again (if John Q Citizen uses his power for the good!). This is a documentary that is very slow paced, so you don't watch to watch it late at night....... but I found it very informative about U.S. foreign policy. 4 out of 5 stars. (this is on dvd from netflix)
"THE FINAL YEAR" 2017 1 hour and 29 minutes
Enjoying rare access to Barack Obama and some of his top aides during the last year of his presidency, filmmaker Greg Barker captures the urgency of White House foreign policy experts as they hasten to cement Obama's global legacy.
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