MGM was founded in 1924 by Marcus Loew of the production company Metro Pictures who bought out both the Goldwyn Company and the business of Luis B. Mayer. Despite the inclusion of his name Samuel Goldwyn was never a part of MGM.

Jack Parsons (OTO leader) and Frank Malina of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who successfully developed a rocket fuel for use in US missiles by the end of WW2, sent a script for a film based on their research to MGM which was never acknowledged.

In 1994 MGM released the science fiction film, Stargate, containing themes of a military-occult nature. One year later the CIA decommissioned and partially declassified the last official U.S. Army remote viewing program, 'Stargate' (1991-1995). The film depicts glyphs which operate the Arc Angle, derived from the Enochian language of Dr John Dee.