Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door is an independent documentary that traces the production of the controversial and FBI repressed 1973 black film. The Spook Who Sat by The Door is widely hailed as a cult classic and one of the most important underground black productions. Based on Sam Greenlee's 1969 novel, a political satire and semi autobiography, race baiting allows a black man to be begrudgingly trained as a CIA agent. This politicized but underground "Spook" would then use the white perception of black simplicity and inadequacy to turn the tables on the establishment. Infiltrating Hollywood reveals the numerous obstacles the film production faced including little to no budget and the denial of permits to film in the city of Chicago, the primary location of the novel. The documentary also shows how Sam, Ivan and their cast and crew used every tactic possible and received incredible support from the Black Community to bring the film to the public, while battling interference and suppression from the FBI.