Synopsis
The Final Year (2018) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM — director Greg Barker spent 2016 inside the Obama administration filming the foreign-policy team in its last stretch before the handover.
The camera follows Secretary of State John Kerry across negotiating tables, UN Ambassador Samantha Power pushing for accountability on mass atrocities, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes working the message, and National Security Advisor Susan Rice holding the operation together. The footage is unscripted: flight delays, briefing rooms, quiet arguments about what is still achievable. Then November 2016 arrives on camera, and the mood shifts in real time.
There is no shortage of fictional White House dramas, but watching the actual machinery run — and then stop — is a different thing entirely. Stream The Final Year (2018) online on iFILM.
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