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In 2015, legendary TV producer Dick Wolf approached the FBI about developing scripted and unscripted products based around the Bureau. ...

While digging into the production of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent I contacted the Croatian Ministry of Culture for...

Among the numerous agencies who vetted and reviewed the script for the 1994 film adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Clear and...

One of the recurring propaganda techniques identified by Roger Stahl in Theaters of War is that you can remediate military...

Three years ago, when the third and final season of Designated Survivor came out on Netflix, I said the show...

In my latest piece for Shadowproof I outline the production history of Top Gun: Maverick, using documents from the Pentagon,...
The post How the Pentagon Shaped Top Gun: Maverick into a PR Vehicle first appeared on Spy Culture.(Read more...)

The 1995 nuclear submarine mutiny thriller Crimson Tide was rejected by the US Navy, for fairly obvious reasons (the whole...

In the first of a series of releases, the FBI sent me some of their historical files on working with...
The post You Can’t Get Away With It – The First Film to Star J Edgar Hoover first appeared on Spy Culture.(Read more...)

Something I recently stumbled on while researching the 2011 terrorism sci-fi thriller Source Code is a batch of contracts between...

All the waves made by Don’t Look Up have missed one key landmark – the Pentagon supported the movie.  Unlike...
The post How the US Military Rewrote Don’t Look Up first appeared on Spy Culture.(Read more...)