In the comments to my post on They Came Back, Ginger Yellow suggests that if it's government-in-action that I want to see, then I should check out Threads -- "nuclear apocalypse from the point of view of Sheffield City Council." I'm down, as I've long wondered how the Sheffield City Council would react to nuclear apocalypse. Sadly, I can't seem to find Threads in ye olde Netflix. But let's make the question larger: What are the best movies about government in general and bureaucrats in particular? I'm not looking for thrillers taking place in the halls of Congress, but love stories in the depths of the EPA and dramas tracking one deputy undersecretary of state's lonely crusade to popularize the metric system.
