Naval Criminal Investigative Service - NCIS in Media

NCIS in Media

  • In 2003, the television show NCIS premiered on CBS, based on the NCIS. This series was a "spinoff" of the television series JAG.
  • In 2009, the television show NCIS: Los Angeles premiered on CBS, based on the Office of Special Projects of the NCIS, in Los Angeles. This TV series is a "sister show" to and is itself a "spinoff" of NCIS.
  • The Pentagon Channel aired a documentary in June 2009 entitled "Recon: Military CSI" about crime scene investigation techniques used in the theater of war by NCIS Special Agents.
  • Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History was Brought to Justice was published in 2006. Written by retired NCIS Special Agent Ron Olive, it recounts the NIS investigation of Pollard.
  • In the 2006 CBS drama Jericho a character was found with a counterfeit NCIS badge.
  • The 2000 movie Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story is based on the 1995 best-selling book Dangerous Evidence. The book recounts the true story of NIS Agents framing an African-American marine corporal for a crime he did not commit. CBS News journalist Ellis A. Cohen covered the story for 60 minutes and then wrote the book and produced the Lifetime movie.
  • In the 1997 film, G.I. Jane, LT Jordan O'Neil is threatened with a then-NIS investigation involving an alleged lesbian relationship.
  • In the 1992 movie A Few Good Men, a marine's letter to the then-NIS was the motive for the alleged homicide at the heart of the courtroom drama.
  • In Richard Marcinko's book Rogue Warrior, he details his conflict with NIS. Later an NIS investigation named "Iron Eagle" would result in a federal prison sentence.
  • Special Agent, Vietnam: A Naval Intelligence Memoir was written by former Special Agent Douglass H. Hubbard about special agents during the Vietnam War. Hubbard served as an NCIS Special Agent in Vietnam from 1969 to 1972.
  • NCIS is mentioned in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk is Underwater".
  • Author Mel Odom authored an NCIS series of novels entitled Paid in Blood, Blood Evidence, and Bloodlines.
  • The National Geographic Channel filmed a documentary entitled "Inside the Real NCIS."
  • Investigation Discovery filmed a 13-episode series called "The Real NCIS" highlighting thirteen different crimes solved by NCIS Special Agents.
  • The Crisis: A Dan Lenson Novel by David Poyer details the adventures of NCIS Special Agents in the Horn of Africa (HOA).
  • NCIS is mentioned various times in TV drama JAG, based on the Navy's legal division, the Judge Advocate General's Corps.

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