Daniel Ellsberg
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Daniel Ellsberg, PhD, (born April 7, 1931) is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Ellsberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: April 07, 1931
Deathday: June 16, 2023
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The Most Dangerous Man in America
2009-10-16
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Overview: "The Most Dangerous Man in America" is the story of what happens when a former Pentagon insider, armed only with his conscience, steadfast determination, and a file cabinet full of classified documents, decides to challenge an "imperial" presidency – answerable to neither Congress, the press, nor the people – in order to help end the Vietnam War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-16
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Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
2004-06-18
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Overview: You Can't Be Neutral documents the life and times of the historian, activist and author of the best selling classic "A People's History of the United States". Featuring rare archival materials, interviews with Howard Zinn as well as colleagues and friends including Noam Chomsky, Marian Wright Edelman, Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Hayden and Alice Walker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-18
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Ithaka
2022-04-21
Ithaka
Overview: The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son. Arguably the world’s most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a figure pretty much everybody has an opinion about; perhaps more importantly, he serves as the emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption and unpunished war crimes. For his family members who face the prospect of losing him forever to the abyss of the US justice system, however, this David-and-Goliath struggle is personal – and, with his health declining in a British maximum-security prison and American government prosecutors pulling out all the stops to extradite him, the clock is ticking.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-21
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How to Stop a Nuclear War
How to Stop a Nuclear War
Overview: Follows Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg’s efforts to raise an alarm about the threat of a devastating nuclear war and his concerns about the United States and Russia planning for a globally destructive nuclear attack that could be launched by accident, or intentionally. Ellsberg explains the “institutional madness” of American nuclear war plans and how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has made the world far more dangerous. The documentary will trace Ellsberg’s journey from being a Cold War hawk to becoming an anti-nuclear weapons activist, a stance he held right up to his death. Ellsberg warns that the nuclear weapons arsenals of the U.S. and Russia are still very much a threat to global peace and that an all-out nuclear war remains capable of being launched from missile silos or submarines on a few minutes’ notice.
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Our Nixon
2013-01-23
Our Nixon
Overview: Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-23
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The Memory of Justice
1976-10-04
The Memory of Justice
Overview: This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the Nuremberg trials to those committed by the French in Algeria and those done by the Americans in Vietnam. The four-hour epic questions the right of any country to pass self-righteous moral judgements upon the actions of another country.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-04
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Doomsday Chronicles
1979-01-01
Doomsday Chronicles
Overview: Plagued by wars, pollution and natural disasters, is man destined to self-destruction before the 20th century folds? Or can he escape the total annihilation the future may hold?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Hearts and Minds
1974-12-20
Hearts and Minds
Overview: Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-20
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Axis of Evil: Perforated Praeter Naturam
2004-12-28
Axis of Evil: Perforated Praeter Naturam
Overview: AXIS OF EVIL is an experimental-feature-documentary-essay that features interviews with sixteen artists, scholars, and activists, including Howard Zinn, Daniel Ellsberg, Bernardine Dohrn, Martha Nussbaum, and others, talking about the concept of evil, its usefulness as a framework for US foreign policy, and evils that they've encountered in their lives. The interviews are illustrated with postage stamp art, archival footage, and other elements that interact with, illustrate, and comment on the statements of the interviewees.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-28
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The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
2024-01-25
The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
Overview: Examining the meaning and significance of the insights that WikiLeaks shared with the world, the resulting behaviour of the governments involved, the extraordinary personal risk taken by Assange, and the wider fundamental issues around press freedom that affect all of us and our right to know.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-25
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War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
2013-04-19
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Overview: War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality for whistleblowers and the press. The film includes interviews with whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl and Thomas Tamm and award-winning journalists like David Carr, Lucy Dalglish, Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Michael Isikoff, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton, Jane Mayer, Dana Priest, Tom Vanden Brook and Sharon Weinberger.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-19
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Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018-06-18
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Overview: This feature length high definition documentary follows one of the Nation's most controversial yet progressive leaders, 2012 Presidential candidate and Former two-term Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-18
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Risk
2017-05-05
Risk
Overview: Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth and sacrifice.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-05
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Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014-08-04
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Overview: From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. This film chronicles the content of those tapes, which include Nixon's conversations on the war in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers leak, his Supreme Court appointments, and more--while also exposing shocking statements he made about women, people of color, Jews, and the media.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-04
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The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
2020-12-06
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
Overview: The Berrigan Brothers, Daniel and Philip were Catholic priests dedicated to non violent resistance of the violent policies of the United States government. They rose to prominence as outspoken opponents of the Vietnam War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-06
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Police Off Campus!
1970-06-15
Police Off Campus!
Overview: Police Off Campus! Was produced and directed by the students of the UCLA Motion Picture and Television Division following a large protest at UCLA on May 5, 1970, in which students were mobilized murder of white students at Kent State by police the day earlier (May 4, 1970), as well as the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, the ongoing war in Vietnam, and the political repression of Black Panthers including the firing of Angela Davis from UCLA and the incarceration of Bobby Seale in connection with the Chicago 8 and the New Haven Black Panther trials. Police came onto UCLA’s campus and began beating and shooting at students. The police’s violence mobilized students to strike and hold a moratorium, halting coursework and business as usual for the University. Television students shot footage on ½” open reel video tape, or the Portapack Camera, the first commercially available portable video camcorder.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-15
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Julian Assange: A Modern Day Hero?
Julian Assange: A Modern Day Hero?
Overview: Documentary on Julian Assange, Wikileaks and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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