Iran Contra: Episode 7 - Olliewood

About this episode

This episode explores how Hollywood attempted to profit from the Iran-Contra scandal and the reasons behind its failure.

How Hollywood tried to capitalize on Iran-Contra -- and why the story didn’t take. For a list of books, documentaries and resources we used to research this episode visit:  bit.ly/fiascopolitics See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Topics covered

• Iran-Contra
• Hollywood
• politics
• media
• history

Keywords

• Iran-Contra
• Hollywood
• politics
• media
• scandal

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hollywood

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