I Voted? (2016)

Director: Jason Grant Smith
Run time:  77 min.

"Jason Grant Smith, a young independent filmmaker, asks, 'Are we the country we think we are?' in this timely, provocative, and important exploration of America’s voting procedures. His initial interest in the unlikely primary victory of an unknown candidate for the U.S. Senate in South Carolina morphs into a general investigation of current voting systems, which are likely to be vulnerable to error and manipulation. . . . The personable narration and the use of archival images, amusing animation, and stimulating talking-head interviews make this film highly viewable and a valuable study of the most fundamental of our democratic rights." 

—Eva Elisabeth VonAncken, School Library Journal (full review)

Citizen Koch (2014)

Director: Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
Run Time: 86 min.

"In 'Citizen Koch,' the directors’ subject is an entire country that is drowning, metaphorically speaking, in corporate snake oil. The death of democracy ought to be the biggest story in journalism. But dividing the drama between 300 million citizens leaves it lost in a cloud of sleep-inducing defeatism. . . . Most of the movie is a backgrounder on the Citizens United case, in which a deeply divided Supreme Court opened the door to truckloads of campaign cash from tycoons and corporations."

—Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Electoral Dysfunction (2012)

Directors: David Deschamps & Leslie D. Farrell 
Run Time: 87 min.
Call Number: JK1976 .E54 2012

"For a film that takes on a serious concern of United States democracy—voting and the effective, if not always overt, encouragement and discouragement of that act as practiced across the nation—'Electoral Dysfunction' pulls off an admirable trick: It’s pleasant. It treats Democrats and Republicans respectfully, and its humor, with the comic Mo Rocca as guide, is closer to Garrison Keillor than to Michael Moore. . . . This lighthearted, colorful, nonpartisan documentary spends most of its time in the Indiana of 2008, following get-out-the-vote efforts there by both major parties. These scenes are the film’s most appealing, with person-to-person, neighbor-to-neighbor examples of principled grass-roots campaigning." 
—David DeWitt, New York Times