EXCLUSIVE: The Age of Disclosure, Dan Farah’s explosive documentary that makes a potent case for the existence of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena and the U.S. government’s alleged efforts to conceal that knowledge, is off to a tremendous start on VOD, boosting the film’s underdog bid for Oscar recognition.
Within 48 hours of the film’s release on Prime Video, it broke that platform’s record for highest-grossing documentary, producers tell Deadline, surpassing the mark set by Oscar winner Free Solo.
“The documentary debuted at #1 and #2 (purchase and rental respectively) on Prime Video’s chart of Best Selling Movies in all genres, where it remained for the first 8 days of its release,” The Age of Disclosure producers said in a release, “outperforming major studio titles such as Warner Bros. One Battle After Another, Weapons, The Conjuring Last Rights, Universal’s Jurassic World Rebirth, Disney’s Tron, and Paramount’s Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning. Two weeks after release, the film remains in the top ten of Prime Videos New Releases Best Sellers chart, and #1 and #2 out of all documentaries.”
The Age of Disclosure is a Farah Films Production, distributed by Relentless Releasing. It features interviews with an extraordinary array of current and former government leaders and experts in a position to know detailed information about UAPs, including Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY); Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD); James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence under Pres. Obama; Jay Stratton, retired defense intelligence senior executive, and many others.
Congress has held recent hearings on UAPs (what used to be termed UFOs) and senators Rounds and Gillibrand and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are calling for passage of the UAP Disclosure Act, which would allow for greater transparency on government findings that date back 80 years. Experts in the film say these encounters have included recovery of crashed vehicles as well as bodies of pilots. They say the U.S., China and Russia have been engaged in a kind of Cold War to “reverse engineer” the alien craft to boost their countries’ defense and technology capabilities.
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“As the film shows, the truth about this situation has been covered up from public, been kept from Congress and even been kept from sitting presidents,” Farah said on Sunday during an appearance at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary event. He added that for his film he only interviewed “people who have direct knowledge of this topic as a result of working for the government so that the bar was set there at this credible level of people who truly know what they’re talking about.”
Hundreds of encounters with unexplained aerial phenomena have been recorded in the last few years alone, the film notes, citing improvements in radar technology as a possible reason for growing numbers of sightings.
“It really is the biggest issue of our time,” Farah told Deadline. “It’s the permanent bureaucracy in various intelligence agencies and private defense contractors and inside of the military that are gatekeeping this information and keeping it from us and our elected officials.”
Director-producer Dan Farah at the Deadline Studio at SXSW on February 10, 2025 in Austin, Texas.
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The Age of Disclosure marks Farah’s directorial debut. He also produced the film. His previous credits including serving as a producer on Ready Player One directed by Steven Spielberg and the Austin Butler starring fantasy series, The Shannara Chronicles, from Wednesday creators Millar & Gough.
The documentary is one of 201 nonfiction features in the running for the Academy Awards. Shortlist voting by the Academy’s documentary branch began today and extends to Friday; that vote will narrow the list to 15 remaining contenders. The shortlists in 10 Oscar categories, including documentary features and shorts, will be announced on December 16.