The most dangerous man in America [DVD video] : Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

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Title:

Added Author:

Ehrlich, Judith, director, producer.

Goldsmith, Rick, director, producer.

Ellsberg, Daniel. Secrets.

Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

ISBN:

9781574482669

Abstract:

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to the New York Times, making headlines around the world. The film tells how one man's change of heart created a landmark struggle involving America's newspapers, president and Supreme Court, the surrounding events of which led directly to Watergate, Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.

General Note:

Based in part on: Secrets : a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers / by Daniel Ellsberg (2002).

Originally produced in 2009.

Special features: The Nixon tapes (audio highlights from the Oval Office); curriculum guide; Daniel Ellsberg today; filmmaker bios.

Performers:

Narrated by Daniel Ellsberg ; commentators, Patricia Ellsberg, Richard Falk, Thomas Schelling, Tom Oliphant, Mort Halperin, Janaki Tschannerl, Randy Kehler, Tony Russo, Robert Ellsberg, Pete McCloskey, Howard Zinn, Hedrick Smith, Max Frankel, James Goodale, Ben Bagdikian, Mike Gravel, Anne Beeson, John Dean, Egil 'Bud' Krogh, Leonard Weinglass.

Technical Details:

DVD; stereo. or 5.1. surround.

Personal Subject:

Ellsberg, Daniel-Film adaptations.

Ellsberg, Daniel.

Title Subject:

New York times -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- 20th century.

Pentagon Papers.

Subject Term:

Political activists -- United States -- Biography.

Freedom of the press -- United States -- Cases -- 20th century.

Government and the press -- United States -- 20th century.