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The Hidden Hand: Alien Contact and the Government Cover-Up

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 20m
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4.9/10
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The Hidden Hand: Alien Contact and the Government Cover-Up (2013)
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The Hidden Hand is a controversial Award-winning documentary that explores the possibility of an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth. The film takes a keen look at a spectrum of topics l... Read allThe Hidden Hand is a controversial Award-winning documentary that explores the possibility of an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth. The film takes a keen look at a spectrum of topics like alien abduction, human/alien hybridization, the military's reverse-engineering of alie... Read allThe Hidden Hand is a controversial Award-winning documentary that explores the possibility of an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth. The film takes a keen look at a spectrum of topics like alien abduction, human/alien hybridization, the military's reverse-engineering of alien technology and the government cover-up of anything related to extraterrestrials. Is preo... Read all

  • Director
    • James Carman
  • Writer
    • James Carman
  • Stars
    • Tristan Layton
    • Richard Dolan
    • Whitley Strieber
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.9/10
    355
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    • Director
      • James Carman
    • Writer
      • James Carman
    • Stars
      • Tristan Layton
      • Richard Dolan
      • Whitley Strieber
    • 9User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Tristan Layton
    • Self - Narrator
    • (voice)
    Richard Dolan
    Richard Dolan
    • Self - Author. UFOs & The National Security State
    Whitley Strieber
    Whitley Strieber
    • Self - Author, Communion
    Robert Dean
    Robert Dean
    • Self - Retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major
    Stanton Friedman
    Stanton Friedman
    • Self - Author, Flying Saucers & Science
    Paola Harris
    Paola Harris
    • Self - Author, Connecting the Dots
    Joni Strother
    • Self - Abductee
    Roger Leir
    Roger Leir
    • Self - Author, The Aliens and the Scalpel
    Jim Sparks
    Jim Sparks
    • Self - Author, The Keepers
    Niara Isley
    • Self - Abductee
    Lyn Buchanan
    • Self - Director, The PSI Institute
    Nassim Haramein
    Nassim Haramein
    • Self - Director, The Resonance Project Foundation
    David Jacobs
    David Jacobs
    • Self - Historian & Hypnotherapist
    Nick Pope
    Nick Pope
    • Self - Former Head of the British Government's UFO Project
    Milton Torres
    • Self - Former USAF Fighter Pilot
    Edgar D. Mitchell
    Edgar D. Mitchell
    • Self - Former Astronaut
    James Penniston
    James Penniston
    • Self - Sergeant USAF Retired
    David Icke
    David Icke
    • Self - Author, The Biggest Secret
    • Director
      • James Carman
    • Writer
      • James Carman
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    6tmdarby

    Pretty good documentary

    It was a good documentary. I was excited to see Whitley Strieber being interviewed. The people interviewed were very articulate and presented their stories quite well.

    The documentary itself was also quite well done. This however might be a bit too much for a person unfamiliar with the cover up to handle. The sheer number of people interviewed that were or are military and government professionals adds a lot of weight to the documentary in my opinion.

    The only criticism I have is the inclusion of David Icke. To anyone who has seriously looked into this information in the past knows that Icke is a hack and quite possibly insane. I probably would have given this an 8 if he wasn't in it.
    8infernal-eternal

    Very Decent Documentary

    This movie is a decent summary of various aspects of alien contact, featuring well-known researchers like Rich Dolan or Linda Moulton Howe, military personnel like Bob Dean or Clifford Stone, Edgar Mitchell (6th man on the Moon), and many others, most of which people interested in this stuff will be familiar with. I've researched these topics for over 20 years, and I can say there's nothing wrong with the information in this movie, and nobody in it is "crazy".

    The people writing all those negative reviews are morons so ignorant of the reality they live in that it's really mind-boggling in 2014. I'm actually surprised that there are still so many completely clueless people around. The other option is that they're government shills and are part of the cover-up, which would be nothing strange. After all, 1/10 ratings are usually a sign of a personal agenda rather than an objective assessment of the movie's quality.

    The one obvious problem is that the movie is only 80 minutes long and tries to give an overview of a wide range of things, so if you know virtually nothing about aliens (if that's even possible), this would be a lot of information you have no context for, and it won't make much sense to you. Or rather, it doesn't have enough space to provide evidence for everything discussed. If you want an introduction into the topic, look somewhere else. This is more suitable for people who are at least somewhat informed.

    The description of the movie already tells you what you'll be hearing about, so I just want to say that the information is not far-fetched in any way and is based on decades of research. For each of the topics mentioned, you can find endless amounts of information on the Internet. There's plenty of research to back up everything that's said here. If you're seriously looking for relevant information, this movie can give you an idea what's out there but doesn't have time to go into much detail on anything specific. It's only one piece of a puzzle. There's only so much you can fit into 80 minutes, but I think this movie delivers what it's supposed to.
    1sgphoto

    Mental Patients Escaped Asylum and Decided to Make a Movie about ETs

    Usual cast of silly characters, publicity hounds, psychotic 'abductees', and authors looking to sell more books. What is interesting is there really are people walking around this earth so deluded. We must be grateful that the ex-military presented never had keys to the nuclear arsenal.

    No evidence presented, but many of the cast looked as though a tornado just tore up their double-wide in the Spooky Acres Trailer Park and Abductee Center.

    It's the same UFO stories repeated ad nauseam since the 1940s. Most of the contactees appear to have a larger shoe size than IQ.

    Here's the far-fetched mindset of these self-deluded hucksters, PSI fakes, abductees, and the other True Believers.

    You're from another planet. Your technology is far beyond anything we can imagine. You come to earth. Rather than find the brilliant scientists, philosophers, thinkers, inventors, and other luminaries at any given time throughout history you decide to contact and abduct only the ignorant, simple-minded, mentally deficient, and the most paranoid psychotics you can find. Then, for generations, you stay with that same family of sub-par mental misfits for experimentation and breeding purposes.

    Makes perfect sense. Find the dumbest people on earth. There's a light-speed trip worth taking.

    There probably is other intelligent life in this universe. Unfortunately, there is no intelligent life in this movie.

    Do not eat or drink while watching this movie as you might choke from laughing.

    For the record, I'm a reptilian overload from the planet Kzrgqwl and Barack Obama is also reptilian. I have the same evidence to prove my claims as the people in this movie.
    1jcsolorzano

    If extraterrestrial beings ever saw this film, they'd walk out of the theater

    I'm not trying to be rude neither to undermine the work and time spent on developing this "documentary", but everything showed here is nothing short than collective delusion.

    A single individual believing something that may sound far fetched as it is not based on any evidence whatsoever is simply wrong, but if you pool together 5, then 10, then 20, then 100 people believing the same far fetched ideas, the delusion feeds itself. After one person says something and the next one believes it and then says something equally crazy and the next person does the same, and so does the next one, so it goes, it is an endless loop of insanity feeding itself.

    I'm not saying there's no life somewhere else, it's bound to be, the universe is just too big for us to be alone. But if you're looking for evidence or for structurally sound ideas or theories regarding extraterrestrial life, this equivocally called "documentary" is not for you, Keanu Reeve's The Day the Earth Stood Still or Ben10 make much much much more scientific sense than this.
    10glen_perfect_10

    You'd be a fool not to believe

    One of the best documentaries I've ever seen about the alien phenomenon. Packed full of reputable sources: physicists, former CIA agents, astronauts, military personnel, multiple defense ministers from various countries and many more commenting on their own work and experience on the subject, and their first hand accounts.

    A lot of this footage is highly correlated with many other shows I've seen on the subject, including testimony from abductees themselves, to testimony from the highly reputable sources.

    After seeing this, it's hard not to believe! There's just too many people out there experiencing so many similar experiences. Some people that complain about this documentary are the kinds of people that will believe anything until it happens to them personally, which is extremely closed minded.

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