Synopsis
Shock and Awe (2017) is a political drama based on real events — watch it online on iFILM. Director Rob Reiner, who also appears in the film, assembled a cast headlined by Woody Harrelson, James Marsden, Tommy Lee Jones, Jessica Biel, and Milla Jovovich.
In the months before the 2003 Iraq invasion, Knight Ridder journalists Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel kept asking a question no one in Washington wanted answered: where exactly is the evidence of weapons of mass destruction? While the major outlets amplified White House briefings, these two reporters were picking up a very different story from intelligence analysts and diplomatic sources. Their dispatches ran. Nobody read them.
What makes the film sting is how recognisably small the machinery of suppression is — no conspiracy, just selective attention. It sits closer to the quiet frustration of real investigative work than to courtroom-thriller dramatics. Stream Shock and Awe (2017) online on iFILM.
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