war films

The 2005 biographical war film Jarhead is one of a very small number of films set in the first Gulf...

The post-WW2 period was the zenith for military and war movies – over 200 were made in the 1950s, and...

One of the veterans of the ambush in Sadr City in April 2004 has revealed that National Geographic’s film The...

Production assistance agreements released by the Defense Department show the United States military used taxpayer money to subsidize part of...

Word about the entertainment liaison offices continues to spread – The Statist Quo podcast recently did a focus episode on...

The Last Ship is one of the most popular cable TV shows of recent years, as well as one of...

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.

I recently joined Henri of Fortress on a Hill to discuss the National Geographic drama series The Long Road Home,...

In this month’s subscriber-only podcast I explore several DOD-supported films and the files on them from the Lawrence Suid archive. ...

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