The Most Dangerous Man in America

One Week Only!
at Pleasant Street Theater
Daily through Thursday 4/29   7:15
Plus Wednesday 4/28   10:30am and Baby-friendly show at 2:30pm
Wednesday 4/28  7:15 Show presented by Bill of Rights Defense Committee with Q&A

Best Documentary Feature, Academy Award Nominee

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. Hailed as a hero, vilified as a traitor, and ostracized by even his closest colleagues, Ellsberg risks life in prison to stop a war he helped plan.  This is the riveting story of one man's profound crisis of conscience that shook a nation, its courts, its free press and its presidency to the core. It is also an acutely timely and piercing look at the world of government secrecy in wartime as revealed by the ultimate insider. Marked by a landmark Supreme Court battle between America's greatest newspapers and its president, this political thriller unravels a saga that leads directly to Watergate, Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.

Directors Judith Erlich and Rick Goldsmith.  92 mins, NR