For mainstream Political Science and International Relations, ‘popular culture’ is slowly becoming a tool to still not considered worthy of serious investigation. Similarly, the idea of using movies as a pedagogical tool has remained at the margins. Nevertheless, film can be a valuable means of teaching university students about politics and international politics. In an elective at my university, I offer a course titled, Films and International Relations which is open to Bachelors and Masters students. The course focused on the topics of history, conflict, peace and theories of international interactions. The primary goals of the course are to learn about the various topics of international politics portrayed by films and to critically evaluate the films in the context of discourse about international politics