A controversial new documentary has finally landed a distributor for wide release, and it’s sure to cause a stir once it can be seen by a wider audience. A new report has been released that states that the film, titled The Age of Disclosure, is set to have a limited theatrical run in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. This careful choice of distribution will help the movie qualify for Oscar Season, though audiences in other cities will have to wait to experience the documentary when it drops on VOD and streaming at a later date.
Besides the small theatrical window, The Age of Disclosure will be exclusively streaming on Prime Video, and will be available for purchase starting on November 21. The film first premiered at the 2025 South by Southwest film festival in March, where it received a strong reaction from critics. On the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, the documentary only has six reviews posted, with five of them being “rotten.” With the movie set to be released to a wider audience, it will be interesting to see what the overall critical reception will be for what has been described as speculative and heavy-handed.
The latest trailer for the film (which can be viewed below) compiles interviews with 34 current and former senior members of the U.S. Government and Intelligence community who have knowledge of what the movie calls “aerial phenomena.” Perhaps the biggest selling point of The Age of Disclosure is the film’s theory that there has been a cover-up happening for the past 80 years about intelligent life that exists outside of Earth. Instead of divulging this information to the public, the documentary goes so far as to claim that there is a secret Cold War to reverse engineer UFO technology.
‘The Age of Disclosure’ Wants Us to Take UFOs Seriously
The Age of Disclosure comes at an interesting time, in no small part thanks to the recent Congressional hearings on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP, formerly UFOs) that have primarily been about requesting more transparency for what the government knows anout any non-human life. Director Dan Farah would have this to say to The Hollywood Reporter about the film:
“My goal was to only interview people who had direct knowledge of the UAP topic as a result of their work for the U.S. government, and who would share what they can legally disclose … There are people who want the topic to continue to be kept from the public entirely. So I went to great lengths to make this documentary in secret over the last two-and-a-half years … there are these fundamental facts — like that we’re not alone in the universe — that everyone feels like the public has the right to know, and it’s also in our best interest to make known so that there’s no longer this antiquated, unjust stigma that is making our country fall behind in how seriously this topic is taken.”
Come November 21, The Age of Disclosure’s divisive content will make itself known to a much wider audience, and more than likely re-ignite the discussion about the existence of extraterrestrial beings.
- Release Date
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March 14, 2025
- Runtime
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109 Minutes
- Director
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Dan Farah
- Producers
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Dan Farah