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Craft guide / 2 tracks

How logistics become ideology

Wolfgang Petersen turns aircraft, control rooms, military advice, models, and visual effects into a credible machine of presidential authority. Andrew Niccol follows a bullet and an arms dealer through factories, borders, ports, airfields, and war zones, exposing the network beneath individual violence. Together, the tracks show production logistics mirroring systems of power: one manufactures the feeling of state command, while the other reveals how states and private operators keep weapons moving.

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Follow the production story.

  1. Air Force One poster

    Part 1 of 2

    Air Force One (1997)

    Wolfgang Petersen / Michael Coleman

    Director / 1h 58m / 278 segments

  2. Lord of War poster

    Part 2 of 2

    Lord of War (2005)

    Andrew Niccol

    Director / 1h 59m / 372 segments