Inside the U.S. Secret Service (2004)
Partisan Pictures

Description

This documentary that takes you behind the scenes of the Secret Service, the agency tasked with protecting the President of the United States. The film takes place during the 2004 Bush vs. Kerry campaign, and many of the scenes involve the extensive preparation the Secret Service needs to do to secure a stadium and the surrounding areas for a presidential speech. There are also scenes that walk you through various assassinations and assassination attempts on past presidents like Kennedy, Ford nad Reagan. These events are recounted in vivid detail firsthand by the Secret Service agents who were there at the time.

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Secret Service

Collected reviews and ratings

9.0 Amazon user reviews

I have always been fascinated with the world of the US Secret Service. National Geographic goes "behind the scenes" and explains it all to you.
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7.0 New York Times | Ned Martel

All day and every day, tedium and dread tax the Secret Service, and a two-hour look at its daily routines gives viewers an acute sense of each. "Inside the U.S. Secret Service," exhausts both subject and viewer in a presentation that feels like a history lesson combined with a recruiting video.
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