January 2022 update: Atomic Cover-up has now screened at sixteen festivals. Pleased to announce our film has just received top prize at the Barrymore Film Festival in New Jersey (based at the site where the USA movie industry was born). Interview with me there. …

This is drawn from my recent bestselling book on heroes (cue Bowie) who dug escape tunnels under the Wall, The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill. Part of Bruce’s performance, and remarks, via link below. …

As Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times contemplates a race for governor, examples set by Upton Sinclair, Gore Vidal, and Norman Mailer do not bode well. H.L. Mencken, Ezra Pound, Theodore Dreiser and Dorothy Parker all weigh in…. The news out of Oregon today: resident, popular author, and longtime…

Updated: June 2023. My acclaimed book, from The New Press, The Beginning or the End, explores the startling story of the first movie on the atomic bomb, from MGM, and how Truman and the Pentagon sabotaged it to defend the use of the new weapon — and building bigger ones…

Details, trailer, previews and reviews here. “What a great film and original concept. An absolutely crucial way to understanding all wars. Don’t be surprised if this documentary is a player at next year’s Oscars.” — Rod Lurie, director of The Outpost, The Contender, others. My first film Atomic Cover-up, which…

Details below. The Barrymore Film Festival is streaming the 2021 film that I wrote and directed through this Tuesday, free. It’s the “short” (29 minutes) version of the “feature” (52 minutes) film but just as powerful, I believe. You will find it third from the top here. This is the…

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Early acclaim for new documentary, now streaming free for all via festival in Rio after world premiere. “It is the visual equivalent of John Hersey’s classic 1946 New Yorker article and Hiroshima book,” one reviewer writes. My first film Atomic Cover-up received its world premiere a few months back at…

Since meeting The Boss in Sing Sing Prison Forty-eight years ago this month I got a phone call at my office at the legendary Crawdaddy, where I served as #2 editor for nearly the entire 1970s, that would change my life, for several years, anyway. It was from a fast-talking…