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Presidential movies range from historically accurate biopics to downright ridiculous disaster flicks. Can you separate fact from fiction (and actor from president) in these presidential films?Brolin played George W. Bush in Oliver Stone's "W."
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Jeff Daniels played the first president in "The Crossing."
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Day-Lewis won the best actor Oscar in 2012 for playing Lincoln in "Lincoln."
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Nolte played the third president in "Jefferson in Paris."
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Sinise was the star of "Truman" in 1995.
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All these actors have played LBJ.
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All of them have been Richard Nixon at some point in time.
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Beyond Daniel Day-Lewis, you get a rather motley collection of actors playing Abraham Lincoln.
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Williams was T.R. in the three "Night at the Museum" movies and Eisenhower in 2013's "The Butler."
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"JFK" is about the aftermath of the assassination, so JFK doesn't appear in the film.
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Fonda plays presidential hopeful William Russell in "The Best Man."
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Fonda played Abe in "Young Mr. Lincoln."
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Stanton is a very thinly disguised Bill Clinton.
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Travolta put on his best Arkansas accent for the 1996 film.
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Jimmy Carter has somehow missed big-screen treatment. An actor named Ed Beheler played him in 1978's "Sextette" and also in "Hot Shots! Part Deux" (1993).
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Heston portrayed Andrew Jackson in 1953's "The President's Lady" and again in 1958's "Buccaneer."
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Hopkins was John Quincy Adams in "Amistad."
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"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" stars Benjamin Walker.
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Kline had two roles in the 1999 Will Smith vehicle: protagonist Artemus Gordon and Ulysses S. Grant.
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"Thirteen Days" follows JFK and his cabinet as they deal with the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.
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Joan Allen plays Laine Hanson, a senator who is tapped for vice president.
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It's possible that a supertornado and a deep freeze could've happened in "2012," but the precipitating event is the melting of Earth's core.
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Danny Glover is President Thomas Wilson, who's desperately trying to hold it all together.
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A massive comet is hurtling toward Earth in 1998's "Deep Impact."
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Morgan Freeman's President Beck must declare martial law in the face of the impending comet.
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Evil aliens arrive in a gigantic mothership in "Independence Day."
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Bill Pullman saves the day as President Thomas Whitmore.
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Sela Ward is Elizabeth Lanford, the first female president.
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The nuke-wielding Russians are determined to start a war, but President James Marshall is determined to stop them.
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Ford's President Marshall actually engages in hand-to-hand combat with the bad guys.
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