In a recent synergistic extravaganza, the folks at Slate and one of their related publications Foreign Policy held an exhaustive list-making drill on international relations in film. It started with Stephen M. Walt’s list of 10 (including Casablanca, Dr. Strangelove and – gasp – Independence Day), followed by Daniel W. Drezner’s top 8 rebuttal (which included The Lion in Winter, Conspiracy and - gasp - Y tu mamá también), all of which was rebuffed, rebuked and reproached by Fred Kaplan in Slate’s 25 Important Movies About War and Diplomacy (which includes The Third Man, The Lives of Others and - gasp - The Lady Vanishes). Since we enjoy such exercises, allow us to throw some more names into the hat: Team America (for what not to do), The Fifth Element (for more or less covert ops), Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind (for peace), Star Wars (for republics), Gladiator (for senates), Throne of Blood (for tyrants) and Equilibrium (for totalitarianism):