Most Dangerous Man In America – Official Film Site

The Pentagon Papers, which started the chain of events that brought down Nixon, had slipped to the back of my mind, and the man who leaked them, Daniel Ellsberg, had slipped right along with it.  I couldn’t have said for sure that he was still alive until he started popping up and mouthing off as part of the Edward Snowden fiasco.

So I tracked him down to the place where he has lived for 35 years in the hills of Kensington, up above Berkeley, and sat down at his kitchen table to hear him spew venom .   To read more, click here

Daniel Ellsberg’s Op-Ed in the Washington Post

Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.

Many people compare Edward Snowden to me unfavorably for leaving the country and seeking asylum, rather than facing trial as I did. I don’t agree. The country I stayed in was a different America, a long tim

Camouflaging the Vietnam War: How Textbooks Continue to Keep the Pentagon Papers a Secret

Like today’s whistle-blowers Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg knew the consequences for his act of defiance. Ultimately, he was indicted on 11 counts of theft and violation of the Espionage Act. If convicted on all counts, the penalty added up to 130 years in prison. This story is chronicled dramatically in the film The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, and in Ellsberg’s own gripping autobiography, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.

Obama Worse Than Nixon? Pentagon Papers Attorney Decries AP Phone Probe

When Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and others abruptly cut off all payments to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks last year, they offered a lesson in how financial giants can use their purse strings to choke controversial media. Now Daniel Ellsberg and a group of digital liberties advocates hope to prevent that kind of financial blockade on information from ever occurring again.

Read the whole article at Forbes.com

In this 1971 photo, Daniel Ellsberg, holds a copy of Newsweek on CBS television program.

One of the world’s most important doc festivals, Doc Leipzig will be highlighting “The Most Dangerous Man in America” this Fall as part of a celebration of POV’s 25th anniversary and the fragile institution of democracy.

Daniel Ellsberg will be giving the Kelly Lecture at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara on Thursday, February 23rd on “Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Humanity.”

The lecture is on Thursday, February 23 at 7:00 p.m. at the Lobero Theatre (33 E. Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, California). This is a free event; tickets are not required. We do suggest that you arrive early to ensure a seat.

We’re honored to announce that “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” has been nominated for a 2011 Emmy award for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking.

The Primetime Creative Arts Emmys (that’s us) will air on the E! Network, sometime after the taping on September 10.  The 63rd Primetime Emmys air September 18 on Fox.

Thanks to everyone for the continuing support!

The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention