20 Mind Blowing Conspiracy Movies You Must Watch

12. Executive Action

You couldn€™t make a movie like Executive Action today. It would amaze me that anyone would have the balls. Certainly, it€™d amaze me if a major studio - and an actor as renowned today as Burt Lancaster was then €“ would front something as contentious and suggestive as this. Executive Action details the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy as if it had been funded and arranged domestically within the American framework of a Military-industrial complex and NOT as the work of a €˜lone gunman€™. Written by Dalton Trumbo, Donald Freed and Mark Lane, it opened to a storm of controversy over the depiction of the assassination and its contention towards the official Warren Commission report of 1964. It was removed from cinemas in December 1973 and did not resurface again until the mid-1990s when it was given legal clearing for release onto the home video market. With enough distance between the film and the controversy now, the film can stand by itself. Yes, it plays a little dry and stagey but its sheer confidence and sense of pace sees it through to being a jaw-droppingly engaging and immensely interesting little curio.