Death of a President (2006 film)

Death of a President
Directed by	Gabriel Range
Produced by	Gabriel Range Simon Finch Ed Guiney Robin Gutch
Written by	Gabriel Range Simon Finch
Starring	Hend Ayoub Brian Boland Becky Ann Baker
Music by	Richard Harvey
Cinematography	Graham Smith
Edited by	Brand Thumim
Production company	FilmFour Borough Films
Distributed by	Optimum Releasing (UK) Newmarket Films (U.S.)
Release date	10 September 2006 (Toronto Film Festival) 9 October 2006 (UK TV) 27 October 2006 (U.S.)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English, Arabic
Budget	$2 million
Box office	$869,352

Death of a President is a 2006 British docudrama political thriller film about the fictional assassination of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President, on 19 October 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. The film is presented as a future history docudrama and uses actors, archival video footage as well as computer-generated special effects to present the hypothetical aftermath the event had on civil liberties, racial profiling, journalistic sensationalism and foreign policy.

Broadcast in the year 2008, the film is presented in a TV documentary style format, combining talking head interviews, news coverage clips and video surveillance footage surrounding the assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush in Chicago around a year earlier on 19 October 2007. The president is fatally shot by a sniper after he addresses an economic forum at the Chicago Sheraton Hotel, before which an anti-war rally had taken place. News outlets immediately begin reporting on the incident along with its political ramifications. After authorities earlier arrest and interrogate war-protesting detainees, Jamal Abu Zikri (Malik Bader), an IT professional of Syrian origin, becomes the prime suspect.

Vice President Dick Cheney, now president, uses the possible al-Qaeda relationship in connection with the suspected assassin, Zikri, to push his own domestic political security agenda. He calls for the legislation of PATRIOT Act III, trying to increase the investigative powers of the FBI, the police, and other government agencies over U.S. citizens and resident aliens as he contemplates attacking Syria.