Turner Classic Movies will mix Washington and Hollywood this fall with a series of movies introduced by United States senators.

The series, "Party Politics and the Movies," will run each Thursday in October, leading up to the presidential election. Each week TCM will show a set of movies with similar themes -- political satire, war, courtroom dramas -- beginning at 8 p.m. ET. At 10 p.m., a senator will introduce a favorite film that ties into the theme.

TCM has bipartisan support for the series: Two Democrats and two Republicans are taking part. North Carolina senator and Democratic vice-presidential nominee John Edwards will lead off the series on Oct. 7, introducing Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."

"I believe that one of the messages Kubrick was trying to send was that putting this kind of power and this potential holocaust in the hands of human beings, no matter who they are, is an extraordinarily dangerous thing," Edwards says of the black comedy released at the height of the Cold War.

The following week, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will host a screening of another Kubrick movie, "Paths of Glory." McCain says of the movie, in which a fame-seeking general in World War I tries to make an example of soldiers who fall back from an attack that has no chance of success, "the lesson is the incredible obligation that any government has and, in our case, our government has for the expenditure of our most precious treasure, and that's American blood."

Sens. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, are also taking part in the series. Biden will introduce "Dead Poets Society" on Oct. 21, while Hatch will wrap up the series with "To Kill a Mockingbird" on Oct. 28.