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PLEASE REMOVE YOUR SHOES is a revealing documentary about broken government process and a familiar topic to all of us who have flown in the last fifteen years: the security routine at the airport - first the FAA and now the TSA.
PLEASE REMOVE YOUR SHOES examines the period before 9/11 and the current situation and asks the questions that make Washington squirm: "Are we really any better for all our money spent? Or is it safe to say that nothing has changed?" The answers come in excoriating detail in places, and by unnerving implication in others. Direct disobedience of agency charter, subversion of management practices, and terrifying abuse of power and secrecy become the film's markers for the superagency charged with protecting us on airplanes.
With testimony from congressional lawmakers who created TSA, to federal air marshals, screeners, and testing agents who "served" it, you'll wonder if we weren't actually safer before 9/11, as they reveal their personal stories about a government agency run amok, which lies and covers up its oversights as frequently as it makes them. Vivid HD visuals and undercover recordings add grit and realism to the personal horror stories of the "cast."
The film leaves no doubt that we need a better system to watch over our transportation. Who will watch our watchdogs? Flying in an airplane will never be the same after you've watched PLEASE REMOVE YOUR SHOES.
Original Release
07/01/2010
US Release
07/01/2010
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Cast
Name | Character |
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John Adler | Self - Federal Law Enforcement Officers Assoc. |
Mohammad Atta | Self |
Malcolm Bennett | Checkpoint Security Guard |
Kathleen Berrick | Self - Managing Director, Homeland Security and Justice |
Steven Bierfeldt | Self |
P. Jeffrey Black | Self - U.S. Federal Air Marshal |
Barbara Boxer | Self - California Senator |
Hillary Clinton | Self -New York Senator |
Jeffrey Denning | Self - U.S. Federal Air Marshal |
Byron Dorgan | Self - North Dakota Senator |
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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John Adler | Self - Federal Law Enforcement Officers Assoc. |
Mohammad Atta | Self |
Malcolm Bennett | Checkpoint Security Guard |
Kathleen Berrick | Self - Managing Director, Homeland Security and Justice |
Steven Bierfeldt | Self |
P. Jeffrey Black | Self - U.S. Federal Air Marshal |
Barbara Boxer | Self - California Senator |
Hillary Clinton | Self -New York Senator |
Jeffrey Denning | Self - U.S. Federal Air Marshal |
Byron Dorgan | Self - North Dakota Senator |
Bogdan Dzakovic | Self - FAA Security Special Agent |
Steve Elson | Self - FAA Security Special Agent |
Kip Hawley | Self - TSA Administrator 2005-2009 |
Audrey Hudson | Self - Homeland Security Reporter Washington Times |
Claire McCaskill | Self - Missouri Senator |
John Mica | Self - House Committe on Transportation and Infrastructure |
James Oberstar | Self - Chairman House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure |
Franklin Puello | Self - TSA Screening Supervisor |
Karola Raimond | Checkpoint Security Guard |
Billy Jo Rodriguez | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Frederick Gevalt | Executive Producer |
Frederick Gevalt III | Executive Producer |
Susan Escher | Producer |
Lorraine Pouliot | Producer |