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The War Room
1993 · Film · documentary · 96 min
Directed by D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Clinton for President campaign, focusing on the adventures of spin doctors James Carville and George Stephanopoulos.
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Lots of good ones already mentioned, but here's a few nobody's brought up yet:
Orson Welles' F for Fake: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072962/
Robert X. Cringely's Triumph of the Nerds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds
The Maysles Brothers' Gimme Shelter: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065780/
Randy Olson's Flock of Dodos: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800334/
Les Blank's Burden of Dreams: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083702/
Steve James' Hoop Dreams: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110057/
Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's The War Room: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108515/
I believe you're referring to James Carville and Mary Matalin? From Wikipedia:
> Both Matalin and Carville have gone on record saying that they do not talk politics at home.[28] The best example of contention between the two, aside from appearances on talk shows, is the 1993 movie The War Room. In the 1992 political campaign, Matalin and Carville were staffing opposing campaigns. Matalin wrote the best-selling book All's Fair: Love, War and Running for President with Carville and co-author Peter Knobler.[0]
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Matalin#Personal_life
"... Again, she started filming casually and ended up making film history for the second time. ..."
A part of what Jehane did was hack the documentary movie making process. When DA Pennibacker (http://www.phfilms.com/index.php/phf/people/d_a_pennebaker/) / Chris Hegedus (http://www.phfilms.com/index.php/phf/people/chris_hegedus) of (The War Room, Ziggy Stardust, dont look back) ~ http://www.phfilms.com/index.php/phf/films/ great documentary makers themselves wanted to film they carried around bulky intrusive tripods and large cameras - requiring permission and time to set up the shot.
In startup.com the key reason a lot of the shots (shooting inside doing the VC rounds / inside the cars after the deal) was the use of hand held cameras. It was Jehane who took the hand held and got the great scenes and dialog that make startup.com a study of founder dynamics.