"The Grey State" - (David Crowley - Documentary - 2017)

"The Grey State" is an unfinished 2017 American documentary directed by David Crowley, focusing on themes of government overreach, martial law, and societal collapse in a dystopian near-future America. Crowley, a Marine veteran and filmmaker, intended the project to warn against perceived threats to constitutional freedoms, including surveillance states, false flag operations, and elite control mechanisms, drawing from conspiracy theories around events like 9/11 and the New World Order. The 90-minute compilation of available footage, released posthumously after the January 17, 2015, discovery of Crowley, his fiancée Komel Alicorn, and their 3-year-old daughter Rani dead in their Apple Valley, Minnesota home, presents interviews with experts on preparedness, gun rights, and resistance movements. Produced independently with contributions from Alex Jones and Infowars, it blends dramatic reenactments, archival clips, and Crowley's narration to advocate self-reliance and armed defense against tyranny, amid speculation that the family's deaths—ruled a murder-suicide—were linked to the film's sensitive content.