President Obama’s Favorite Movies and TV Shows in Office (Photos)
President Obama’s Favorite Movies and TV Shows in Office (Photos)
President Barack Obama’s favorite movies and TV shows run the gamut from “The Wire” to “The Godfather” to “Game of Thrones” to “Star Trek” — and he’s kind of a sci-fi nerd, in the best way.
The film was one of his 10 favorite sci-fi movies ever, telling Wired, “it shows humans as problem solvers.”
Among TV shows, Obama was a big fan of Carl Sagan’s documentary series “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,” adding it to his Wired list by saying it fed his “lifelong fascination with space.”
Obama called the Baltimore, HBO drama “The Wire,” “one of the greatest, not just television shows, but pieces of art in the last couple of decades.”
Obama sat down with the show’s creator David Simon to talk about how the drug and law enforcement challenges tackled on the show could provide solutions for the country at large.
M*A*S*H
[...] while Obama might consider “The Wire” the “best” show, his favorite is “M*A*S*H.” In an offhand comment, he revealed to a crowd in Minneapolis that the long running anti-war comedy from the ’70s was his favorite of all time.
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