The official channel for the documentary film, "Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood" (2021), distributed by The Media Education Foundation (mediaed.org).
If you've seen Top Gun or Transformers, you may have wondered: Does all of that military machinery on screen come with strings attached? Does the military actually get a crack at the script? With the release of a vast new trove of internal government documents, the answers have come into sharp focus: the US military has exercised editorial control over thousands of films and television programs. From The Longest Day to Lone Survivor, Iron Man to Iron Chef, and James Bond to Jack Ryan, the deliberate creation of this other cinematic universe is one of the great PR coups of our time.