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Bannon was well-known previously as chairman of Breitbart News, the right-wing news organization that Bannon himself once called the platform of the alt-right, a fringe conservative group that mixes populism, white nationalism and racism.

But he's also worked extensively in the film world, as executive producer on two traditional dramas, including "The Indian Runner," Sean Penn's directorial debut, and as producer, writer and director of political documentaries often released during election cycles.

Among his film topics, the global financial crisis in 2010's "Generation Zero," Sarah Palin, featured in "The Undefeated" in 2011, more recently, 2016's "Clinton Cash" about alleged corruption in the Clinton Foundation, and also last year "Torchbearer," about an America turning from God, and the concurrent rise of a violent and radical Islam.

Reporters at The Washington Post have been looking at Stephen Bannon's work in films and how they may inform his role as the president's right-hand man.

Ann Hornaday is a film critic for The Post. Matea Gold covers politics.

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