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Theaters of War

The entry for A Moral Issue concludes that since the film was never produced, the answer...

The entry for A Moral Issue concludes that since the film was never produced, the answer must have been no

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The entry for A Moral Issue concludes
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that since the film was never produced,
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the answer must have been no.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
00:13:06
Uploaded
Apr 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, history
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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...
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...
But you don't have to be an expert - Theaters of War 00:06
But you don't have to be an expert
Just listen to what the consultants and writers - Theaters of War 00:06
Just listen to what the consultants and writers
- The idea that people chase people around, - Theaters of War 00:08
- The idea that people chase people around,
- It's not realistic compared to what we do every day. - Theaters of War 00:04
- It's not realistic compared to what we do every day.
I said, if there was a Top Gun trophy, - Theaters of War 00:04
I said, if there was a Top Gun trophy,
It would all be midair collisions, and crashes, - Theaters of War 00:05
It would all be midair collisions, and crashes,
Never let the truth get in the way of a good movie. - Theaters of War 00:04
Never let the truth get in the way of a good movie.
ROGER STAHL: None of these concerns - Theaters of War 00:06
ROGER STAHL: None of these concerns
In fact, a memo from the Marine Corps - Theaters of War 00:07
In fact, a memo from the Marine Corps
In Top Gun, they said, buzzing the tower wouldn't - Theaters of War 00:06
In Top Gun, they said, buzzing the tower wouldn't
And the famous inversion scene simply couldn't happen. - Theaters of War 00:04
And the famous inversion scene simply couldn't happen.
The Marine Office assembled this list - Theaters of War 00:12
The Marine Office assembled this list
The issue of realism comes to a head with films - Theaters of War 00:06
The issue of realism comes to a head with films
Surely they must pass the authenticity test - Theaters of War 00:06
Surely they must pass the authenticity test
Jarhead was based on the celebrated book - Theaters of War 00:08
Jarhead was based on the celebrated book