#1195 - Matthew Alford

Matthew Alford is a teaching fellow at Bath university UK, in politics with research interests in the relationship between screen entertainment and political power. His new documentary "Theaters Of War" digs deep into a vast new trove of recently released internal government documents about the government influence in Hollywood. Matt discovers how the military and CIA have pushed official narratives while systematically scrubbing scripts of war crimes, corruption, racism, sexual assault, coups, assassinations, and torture. From The Longest Day to Lone Survivor, Iron Man to Iron Chef, and James Bond to Jack Ryan, Theaters of War uncovers an alternative “cinematic universe” that stands as one of the great Pentagon PR coups of our time.