🎖️Bodyguard of Lies (2025): Unmasking the Afghanistan War’s Hidden Truths

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” These words echo hauntingly through Bodyguard of Lies, the first unflinching, unvarnished documentary to confront the two-decade-long Afghanistan War — and the staggering cost of the deception surrounding it. Premiering September 23, 2025, exclusively on Paramount+, this gripping original documentary shatters the carefully constructed narratives and dares to show the war as it truly was.

🕵️ The Deception Beneath the Flag

For twenty years, the American public was fed a version of the Afghanistan War polished for political optics. But director Dan Krauss (The Kill Team, Extremis) refuses to play along with history’s cover-up. Through insider testimonies, confidential documents, and private recordings, Bodyguard of Lies dismantles the façade to reveal a tangled web of misinformation spun at the highest levels of power.

The revelations are as chilling as they are enraging — accounts from military insiders who watched truths get buried, strategies fail, and human lives be reduced to mere talking points. One veteran’s voice cracks as he recalls, “We fought the battles, but they fought to control the story.”

💰 The Human and Financial Toll

The film doesn’t just trace the lies — it tallies the cost. The numbers are almost too vast to process:

• Thousands of American and Afghan lives lost

• Trillions of dollars drained from taxpayers

• A generation shaped by war, loss, and disillusionment

Yet, behind the figures are faces — soldiers returning home with invisible wounds, Afghan civilians whose futures were rewritten in moments, and policymakers still unwilling to admit their complicity.

🎬 A Documentary That Pulls No Punches

Krauss approaches the subject with surgical precision, balancing raw testimony with archival footage that feels almost surreal in contrast to the truth being told. The pace is relentless, the tension suffocating — and yet there’s a quiet, human heartbreak running through every frame.

This isn’t a history lesson. It’s a reckoning.

📅 Streaming Details

• Title: Bodyguard of Lies

• Genre: Documentary / Thriller

• Director: Dan Krauss

• Release Date: September 23, 2025

• Platform: Paramount+ (exclusive)

⚖️ Why Bodyguard of Lies Matters Now

In an age where information can be twisted, buried, or weaponized, Bodyguard of Lies stands as a defiant act of historical truth-telling. It’s not comfortable viewing — nor should it be. This is the kind of film that forces audiences to confront how far a government will go to maintain control of the narrative, even at the expense of reality.

The war may have ended, but for many, the fight for truth is only beginning.