Documents

Anwar Al Awlaki was the head of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula until his death in a CIA drone...

Compared to the DOD, the US intelligence agencies support a more politically diverse range of movies, from the hi-tech surveillance...

1996’s action thriller Executive Decision may be light on action and lacking thrills but it is notable for one thing...

The Department of Defense’s entertainment liaison office file on the 1996 thriller Executive Decision was, for many years, secreted in...

The DOD claim that they only rewrite Hollywood scripts in order to ensure accuracy and to inform the public about...

The Pentagon’s censorship of movie scripts is fairly well established – I have documented numerous instances on this site.  But...

A few months ago, then DOD Hollywood liaison Phil Strub gave an interview in which he described the work of the entertainment liaison offices.

The 1990 World Cup was considered a big success for the England football team, as getting to the semi-finals was the greatest progress in a tournament since winning the trophy in 1966. Documents recently released by the National Archives show that the July 1990 visit to Number 10 Downing Street by the England team was little more than a cynical photo opportunity.

One of the Pentagon's consistent bugbears when it comes to movie scripts is swearing. Whether it is from the mouths of military or civilian characters, the DOD doesn't like those ████ing cuss words. But why not? Given their various political and PR concerns why is bad language such a problem? Compared to executing prisoners of war or digging gold teeth out of the mouths of dead soldiers, a quick ████ or ██████████ seems trivial.

Air Force One is one of the great military commercials disguised as a feature film. Laden with Russophobic rhetoric and corny dialogue about the heroism of the US military, it ticked every box for the DOD so they granted it full production support.