The most dangerous man in America
Subtitle: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
By: ITVS ; Kovno Communications and InSight Productions present ; a film by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith ;  a co-production of Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith and the Independent Television Service, produced in association ith American Documentary/POV ; produced and directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith ; written by Lawrence Lerew, Rick Goldsmith, Judith Ehrlich, Michael Chandler
Contributors: Ellsberg, Daniel; Ellsberg, Daniel; Franco, Vicente; Krauss, Dan; Leyh, Blake; Kovno Communications (Firm); Insight Productions; Independent Television Service; Corporation for Public Broadcasting; New Day Films
Publisher: New Day Films
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Harriman, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781574482669
Subjects: Film adaptations; Trials, litigation; Political activists; Biography; Freedom of the press; Cases; Government and the press; Political crimes and offenses; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Press coverage; New York times; Pentagon Papers
Other titles: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Description: "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
Notes: 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); Woody Harrelson and Naomi Wolf on Ellsberg; Daniel Ellsburg today; filmmaker's biographies.

Original music, Blake Leyh ; director of photography, Vicente Franco, Dan Krauss (re-enactments) ; editors, Michael Chandler, Lawrence Lerew, and Rick Goldsmith ; 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.

DVD, stereo or 5.1 surround.

Closed-captioned.

Audience award: Mill Valley Film Festival, 2009.
Table of contents: title: Gulf of Tonkin; title: I need blood; title: Vietnam, 1965; title: Asleep at the wheel; title: Secrets; title: My life, split in two; title: Tony Russo; title: Xeroxing; title: The leak; title: The New York times; title: Pentagon papers revealed; title: Senator Mike Gravel; title: Wouldn't you go to prison?; title: Nixon and his plumbers; title: No one is listening; title: The trial; title: Aftermath.