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Gary Devore and Norman Wexler’s Raw Deal is a typically ridiculous macho action comedy set in the world of covert...

There I was, innocently flicking through hundreds of pages of documents from the Marine Corps entertainment liaison office when all...

In 1986, during the filming of Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War tragedy Gardens of Stone, his eldest child Gian-Carlo died...

One thing the Pentagon love to do is ‘showcase’ absurdly costly technologies to the public. This military product placement helps...
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1996’s Independence Day is corny, schlocky, nationalistic and pro-nuclear weapons. So how did it end up being rejected by the...
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Actor and producer Jack Webb is best known for his copaganda franchise Dragnet – which spanned radio, film and TV...
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If a military supported romance drama with Twitter-level gender politics sounds like a terrible movie then you aren’t wrong. In...
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Good Guys Wear Black is one of very few movies to explicitly discuss the Phoenix Program – a Vietnam-era behind...
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In 2003 one of the longest-running shows on American TV debuted: NCIS.  As previously detailed on this site, the more...

In early 1997 the Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen Charles Krulak issued an order authorising the use of video...