US Army’s Twitter Question Backfires, Reminder of High Human Cost of War
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‘A Complete Rewrite of the Storyline Would be Required’ – DOD File on The Presidio
1988’s The Presidio wanted to film at the real Presidio in San Francisco, an Army installation. As per usual this...
Forrest Gump – Tom Secker on Fortress on a Hill
Chris and Danny invited me back onto their podcast to discuss the 1994 comedy-drama Forrest Gump. We talked about the...
How the Pentagon Rewrote Man of Steel
The Superman reboot Man of Steel launched the (now abandoned) DC Extended Universe, and put a much darker tinge on...
Don’t Shoot the Looters – Military Script Notes on Deep Impact
Deep Impact is one of a pair of twin films released in 1998 that were based around a giant meteor...
Veteran of Sadr City Ambush Exposes The Long Road Home as Shameful Propaganda
One of the veterans of the ambush in Sadr City in April 2004 has revealed that National Geographic’s film The...
Pentagon Contracts Show US Army Subsidized Production Of National Geographic’s ‘Long Road Home’
Production assistance agreements released by the Defense Department show the United States military used taxpayer money to subsidize part of...
The US Military Celebrate Captain Marvel as ‘the film girls need’
The US military, particularly the Air Force, invested a lot of time and resources in helping make Captain Marvel, and...
When the US Army Decided a Chin Strap was More Important Than the Death of One of Their Soldiers
The US Army provided extensive support to the National Geographic film series The Long Road Home, supposedly to ensure it depicted the real-life battle of Sadr City in a 'reasonably realistic' way. But Army emails that I obtained under FOIA show they were more concerned with the fact that a helmet chin strap was wrong in one scene than in the fact the series depicted the death of a soldier who actually died later in another mission.
The Long Road Home – Tom Secker on Fortress on a Hill
I recently joined Henri of Fortress on a Hill to discuss the National Geographic drama series The Long Road Home,...