Martin Scorsese's Bill Clinton Documentary Stalled, 'Silence' Pushed To 2016 Release

These days, attempting any kind of cinematic narrative about Bill or Hillary Clinton is proving to be tricky. In 2013 alone, CNN and NBC both scrapped potential projects. The former would've been a documentary about Mrs. Cilnton directed by Charles H. Ferguson ("Inside Job," "No End Of Sight"), but the filmmaker claimed he couldn't find anybody willing to go in front of a camera. "When I approached people for interviews, I discovered that nobody, and I mean nobody, was interested in helping me make this film. Not Democrats, not Republicans —and certainly nobody who works with the Clintons, wants access to the Clintons or dreams of a position in a Hillary Clinton administration. Not even journalists who want access, which can easily be taken away," Ferguson wrote in piece for Huffington Post. "I even sensed potential difficulty in licensing archival footage from [Pat Robertson's] CBN and from Fox. After approaching well over a hundred people,...