‘The War Room’

With his impish grin and the personality of a sardonic Ichabod Crane, James Carville (pictured), Bill Clinton’s preeminent campaign strategist, is a natural actor. And this 1993 D.A. Pennebaker-Chris Hegedus documentary gives him the starring role he thoroughly deserved. Carville shares screen time with George Stephanopoulos, Clinton’s director of communications at the time. As the Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside of the Arkansas governor’s presidential campaign, they light up Clinton’s drive to the White House and turn this film into a tiptop political documentary. The film is most notable for offering a candid and entertaining backstage look at a most unlikely electoral juggernaut (Disney Channel, Sunday at 9 p.m., Monday at 3:30 a.m., Saturday at 11 p.m.).