The most dangerous man in America Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

Ehrlich, Judith. (Added Author). Goldsmith, Rick. (Added Author). Lerew, Lawrence. (Added Author). Ellsberg, Daniel Secrets. (Added Author). Franco, Vicente. (Added Author). Krauss, Dan. (Added Author). Leyh, Blake. (Added Author). Kovno Communications (Firm) (Added Author). Insight Productions. (Added Author). New Day Films (Added Author). Independent Television Service. (Added Author). Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (Added Author).

Summary: "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 profound change of heart created a landmark struggle involving America's newspapers, president and Supreme Court -- a political thriller whose events led directly to Watergate, Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War"-- www.newday.com.

Record details

Physical Description: videorecording
videodisc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: Harriman, NY : New Day Films, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally produced in 2009. Based in part on: Secrets: a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers / by Daniel Ellsberg (2002)
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Original music, Blake Leyh ; director of photography, Vicente Franco, Dan Krauss (re-enactments) ; editors, Michael Chandler, Lawrence Lerew, and Rick Goldsmith ; a co-production of Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith and the Independent Television Service, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ; produced and directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith ; written by Lawrence Lerew, Rick Goldsmith, Judith Ehrlich, Michael Chandler.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrator, 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.
System Details Note:	DVD format.