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THEATERS OF WAR

Interviews with Oliver Stone + Daniel Ellsberg. Director of Photography. 2022

Oliver Stone interviewed for Theaters of War documentary

Theaters of War premiered at the 2022 Lone Star Film Festival and later won Best Feature Documentary at the 2023 I Will Tell Festival. CounterPunch called it a "fantastic new film [that performs] an important public service." Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and journalist David Sirota called it a "must-see documentary." Journalist and media watchdog Norman Solomon described it as "dramatic smoking-gun evidence of methodical and deadly manipulation."

Traveling across America, filmmaker and media scholar Roger Stahl engages researchers, bewildered veterans, PR insiders, and industry producers willing to talk. In unsettling and riveting detail, he 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. As these activities gain new public scrutiny, new questions arise: How have they managed to fly under the radar for so long? And where do we go from here?