Los Angeles, Oct. 27 (AP): President George W. Bush is getting another big-screen close-up.

Two films touching on Bush open the same day, one about a country trio ashamed the President’s from their home state, the other chronicling his fictional assassination.

As Michael Moore’s Bush-bashing hit Fahrenheit 9/11 showed two years ago, politically charged films are not likely to affect elections. But Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing and Death of a President, both debuting today, are positioned as talking points for the congressional elections 10 days later.

“Films don’t influence elections. People have to,” said Barbara Kopple, who directed Shut Up and Sing with Cecilia Peck. “If there’s something they see in a particular film, maybe they’ll explore it further. If it hits at just the right spot, they may go out and help to change something.”

Shut Up and Sing recounts the fallout after Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines told a London concert crowd in 2003 that she and band mates Martie Maguire and Emily Robison were ashamed that Bush is from Texas, the remark coming on the eve of the US war in Iraq.

Conservative commentators condemned them, country radio stations banned their songs and fans boycotted their records.

Death of a President is a fictional film presented as a documentary examining the assassination of Bush after an economic speech in Chicago on October 19, 2007.

Bush is gunned down by a sniper, the film focusing on the chaotic months that follow as conspiracy theories arise, questions emerge about the government’s key suspect and Dick Cheney, sworn in as president, pushes through an expansion of the Patriot Act to broaden federal powers of surveillance.

The two films are the latest critiquing Bush and his administration’s policies amid the war on terrorism.

Among them are The Road to Guantanamo, about the plight of British Muslims held without charges for two years at the US military prison in Cuba, and the satire American Dreamz starring Dennis Quaid.