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A blockbuster film takes on the big beasts of Hollywood - but Gabriel Gatehouse finds that all is not as it seems.

In the summer of 2023 a small budget thriller becomes a smash hit. Sound of Freedom is based on the true story of Tim Ballard, a former officer at the Department for ±«Óãtvland Security, who spent years undercover busting child sex trafficking rings before he quit and set up his own organisation.

The film was linked to QAnon, the conspiracy theory about a satanic cabal of paedophiles secretly running America. Q, the anonymous figure who posted cryptic messages in online forums, isn’t mentioned in the film. He’s stopped posting and the movement has withered. But Q’s ideas have seeped into the mainstream. Now they’ve merged with a bigger story about dark forces that have captured the institutions of America - the Federal Reserve, the FBI, and…. Hollywood.

Producer: Lucy Proctor
Sound design and mix: James Beard
Editor: Richard Vadon
Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray
Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke
Original music: Pete Cunningham

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Opening sequence includes sound from from:

Sound of Freedom, Official Trailer, Angel Studios
Jim Caviezel on Bannon’s War Room, Rumble
Woke Hollywood FURIOUS Over Sound Of Freedom HUGE Box Office Success! | They CAN'T STOP This Movie! Ryan Kinel, Youtube
Controversial movie becomes a surprise summer hit, CNN
How 'Sound of Freedom,' controversial child sex trafficking film, became a hit in theaters, USA today

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