In my latest article for Shadowproof I examine the FBI's role in the Mark Felt biopic Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House.  Using documents obtained under FOIA and an interview with Ed Gray, the son of FBI acting director Pat Gray (who is depicted in Mark ...
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The 2010 thriller Unthinkable courted controversy by depicting the torture of a suspected terrorist who claims to have planted nuclear bombs in three US cities.  Despite a strong cast including Samuel L Jackson, Carrie-Ann Moss and Stephen Root it was released direct-to-video and lost money.  Recently released documents show that ...
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Deep Impact is one of a pair of twin films released in 1998 that were based around a giant meteor colliding with earth.  The film and its twin, the more successful Armageddon, were both supported by NASA and the Department of Defense.  Inevitably, this meant script changes to fit in ...
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The post-WW2 period was the zenith for military and war movies - over 200 were made in the 1950s, and the same in the 1960s.  According to an entry in the DOD's Hollywood database they provided support to every major military movie for over a decade, putting an entire genre ...
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Production assistance agreements released by the Defense Department show the United States military used taxpayer money to subsidize part of the production of the National Geographic series, “The Long Road Home,” and a companion documentary. In January, Shadowproof revealed documents from the Army showing how they found ways to reduce ...
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Little Mizz Innocent has been languishing in development hell for several years as the 'female Jason Bourne movie' has struggled to get into production.  It tells the story of a UN interpreter 'caught in a power struggle between the FBI and a criminal dynasty'.  FBI emails released under FOIA reveal ...
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