Film Screening: The Most Dangerous Man in America, 2009

Join us for the first program in Archives in Motion, a film series hosted by the Archive of Documentary Arts. This casual gathering offers students, staff, faculty and our greater campus community an opportunity to engage with films from the Archive. The selections have been chosen to extend and deepen conversations around the documentary exhibition, "WARphotography AMERICANimage", on display through mid-November. Bring your lunch. Desserts and drinks will be available.

"The Most Dangerous Man in America:: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers", 2009 (111min)
Produced by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith

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 Most Dangerous Man in America" is a riveting story of 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.

Part of the New Day Digital Films collection. Among its many awards, this film was nominated for an Academy Award in 2009.