Netflix and the Shaping of Global Politics Database: https://heuristau.net/heurist/?db=COLMAN_NETFLIX_ORIGINAL_FILMS&website=3281

This database consists of the complete data for all Netflix Original Films from 2015 to 2019, a total of 261 films.  This includes a number of proxies including language, genre etc, that point to a certain way of viewing the world. Data in relation to writer, director, producer and stars is collected for all films. Ratings and maturity rating categories are included along with Netflix micro-genre descriptive categories (steamy, dark, suspenseful etc). Reception is an important part of meaning making, so various measures of this (Google rating, IMDb rating etc) are included. All of this data is collected from Netflix and various online sources prior to watching the film. While watching the film, data is then entered in relation to narrative elements of the film including the protagonist, antagonist, hero, villain, setting and period.

The major concerns of the International Relations discipline have been the causes of war and the conditions for peace. As most films are conflict driven, the simple dichotomy of the key understandings of the two major competing ideologies provides a useful tool for categorising the worldview in films of any genre. Providing a simple choice between the anarchical, threatening worldview of realism and the rules-based, ordered worldview of liberalism ensures an applicable determination that is suitable for any film. Equally, by providing a simple assessment of how any conflict is resolved, either independently, as in the self-help mantra of realism, or cooperatively as in the interdependent worldview of liberalism, as well as the compromise position if neither holds true, has a clear applicability to any film. Given the relational aspects of soft power to universalising values, these are considered while watching the film and categorised as well. Lastly, given the role of popular culture in reinforcing or contesting claims to common sense understandings of power relations, how this is represented in the film is also assessed. This led to the development of a simple five step ontology for data mining the international relations of all Netflix Original Films as follows:

IRTheme - Worldview - Resolution - Values Power