How to create a view using the References module? I currently have Two content types:  

Content Type 1: Videos

Content Type 2: Politicians 

The main Videos content type references the Politicians content type as a way of "tagging" Politicians that can be seen in the videos.  What I'd like to do on each Video node is create a view that shows all other video nodes that have the same Politicians referenced within them.  For some reason I cant seem to get it to work.  This is what I have so far.


Create a view block with title field from the Video id like to
see
Create a relation to the Politicians field with a reverse
Create a filter based on Content NID


For some reason when i go to a Video node I don't see any results at all. In fact I don't even see the video of the node I'm currently on.

If I change the relation to Politicians field without the reverse I only see the same node that I'm currently on.  I should be seeing all videos with the same politician.  What am I doing wrong here?

Keep in mind I and not using and wont be switching to the Entity Reference module since this is a large legacy project (I'm using the References module).
You could achieve your goal by building two views 

The first is the view you have build with relationship to politicians content type, Add new field gets the politician id tagged in that video

The second is a view that gets videos for politicians ids sent as a contextual filter 


  that accepts multiple values by checking that checkbox as in the picture
  


Install  that module views field view that enables you to embed a view inside another view as a field

Add new field in the first view that embed the second view and send the politicians ids as tokens to that view

Now you could achieve your goal