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It apparently means a lot when the Navy pulls more than 20 Vietnam era destroyers out of...

It apparently means a lot when the Navy pulls more than 20 Vietnam era destroyers out of storage for you to blow up

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It apparently means a lot when the Navy pulls
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more than 20 Vietnam era destroyers out
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of storage for you to blow up.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
00:11:29
Uploaded
Apr 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, history
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

If you've seen Top Gun or Transformers, you might suspect all that military machinery comes with strings attached. This influence is not limited to a handful of movies, though. A vast new trove of internal documents reveals that t...
There wouldn't have been a Top Gun without support either, - Theaters of War 00:05
There wouldn't have been a Top Gun without support...
Most of the time, it comes down to the studio's need - Theaters of War 00:05
Most of the time, it comes down to the studio's need
Take The Hunt for Red October, producer Mace Neufeld - Theaters of War 00:09
Take The Hunt for Red October, producer Mace Neufeld
It was a good thing for Neufeld that the script - Theaters of War 00:04
It was a good thing for Neufeld that the script
It set him up for the long Jack Ryan franchise. - Theaters of War 00:05
It set him up for the long Jack Ryan franchise.
In contrast, consider another '90s film, Countermeasures. - Theaters of War 00:05
In contrast, consider another '90s film,...
If it doesn't ring a bell, it's probably - Theaters of War 00:04
If it doesn't ring a bell, it's probably
But that didn't matter as much as what the Entertainment - Theaters of War 00:05
But that didn't matter as much as what the...
They didn't want a story about weapons smuggling - Theaters of War 00:05
They didn't want a story about weapons smuggling
MATTHEW ALFORD: That was rejected explicitly on the grounds - Theaters of War 00:08
MATTHEW ALFORD: That was rejected explicitly on the grounds
We don't want to remind the public of the Iran-Contra - Theaters of War 00:14
We don't want to remind the public of the Iran-Contra
The Office's own database is littered - Theaters of War 00:05
The Office's own database is littered
Denied, and never made. - Theaters of War 00:04
Denied, and never made.
It's clear from its own notes that the Pentagon knows - Theaters of War 00:06
It's clear from its own notes that the Pentagon knows
The entry for A Moral Issue concludes - Theaters of War 00:08
The entry for A Moral Issue concludes
Here's a sample of titles from the '80s and '90s, - Theaters of War 00:09
Here's a sample of titles from the '80s and...
We start to see a clear pattern when - Theaters of War 00:05
We start to see a clear pattern when
The office internally calls these showstoppers. - Theaters of War 00:04
The office internally calls these showstoppers.
And yeah, sometimes they can stop the show. - Theaters of War 00:05
And yeah, sometimes they can stop the show.
The Pentagon publicly says it denies films because they're - Theaters of War 00:06
The Pentagon publicly says it denies films because...