Year One: A Political Odyssey

Name: Year One: A Political Odyssey
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-10-19
Rating: 28

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Bookended by Inauguration Day 2021 and the State of the Union speech of March 2022, YEAR ONE: A POLITICAL ODYSSEY is a front-seat account of the Biden administration's tense first year, marked by security threats both at home and abroad. Assuming office only two weeks after the January 6th attack on the Capitol, Biden's presidency entered the maelstrom of an ongoing global pandemic, renewed conflicts with Russia and China, and America's international standing in decline.

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Nicolas Rapold

New York Times

Despite the insider access, intriguing tidbits... will be few to anyone who has been reading the news.

Oct 19, 2022

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Daniel Fienberg

The Hollywood Reporter

Despite participation from many bigwigs within the Biden team, Year One fails completely as any sort of chronological overview, which is how the documentary presents itself.

Oct 18, 2022

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Randy B

This documentary has a bunch of democrats spinning their narrative to turn everything that happened in Biden's first year of presidency positive, without any other perspective or facts to back up their words. Typical indoctrination video to turn people with no critical thinking skills to their side and get their votes. I will give them a bit of credit in that they did sort of admit their blunder of how they coordinated the pullout of troops from Afghanistan. If you're on the left side of politics, discover the facts and review your history. Watch documentaries on history and you'll see the issues with democrats and the suffering their policies and decisions have brought to this world…

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/11/22

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Ann Marie M

You can't be serious and expect people to believe this fairytale movie. Just the synopsis alone "Biden using the year to dig the country out of the mess Trump put us in," Come on! I barely got through it without laughing in total disbelief.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/06/22

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greg r

A look at the fight against what has become roughly 38% of our great country, gone insane.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Jake Sullivan

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William Joseph Burns

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Director: John Maggio
Producer: Caroline Cannon, Caroline Pahl, Tina Nguyen
Production Co: HBO Documentary Films, Ark Media
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 19, 2022
Runtime: 1h 30m

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