"The Selling of the Pentagon" was an important documentary aired in primetime on CBS on 23 February 1971. The aim of this film, produced by Peter Davis, was to examine the increasing utilization and cost to the taxpayers of public relations activities by the military-industrial complex in order to shape public opinion in favor of the military.
Peter Davis
Writer, Director
Roger Mudd
Narrator
Robert Stack
Self (archive footage)
John Wayne
Self (archive footage)
Jack Webb
Self (archive footage)
The Class of ‘9271%
Directed by John Ford70%
Sherman's March67%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Above Majestic73%
Bitter Lake75%
Room 23761%
Sidney70%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Night Will Fall76%
180° South72%
Voyeur59%
McQueen74%
Fuck64%
28 Up75%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Hawking76%
Naqoyqatsi61%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
