Lord of War

Type: Media

As of November 2026, Lord of War has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Glenn Beck (Jan 2026). Used to illustrate the alleged illegal reflagging/painting as something 'straight out of' a movie, reinforcing the episode’s 'movie-like' framing.

Lord of War is a 2005 crime drama film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Ethan Hawke, and Eamonn Walker in primary roles. The plot follows an unscrupulous Ukrainian-American man named Yuri Orlov as he participates in the global arms trafficking industry in the years preceding and succeeding the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The film opens with arms dealer Yuri Orlov delivering a direct-to-camera monologue against a backdrop of spent bu