MenuFLIXANO
Start Your Free Trial
Search
Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg, PhD, (born April 7, 1931) is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam war, to The New York Times and other newspapers. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006.

Sign up to watch Free Daniel Ellsberg Movies

Movies Starring Daniel Ellsberg (15)

The Trust Fall: Julian Assange (2024)

Examining the meaning and significance of the insights that WikiLeaks shared with the world, the resulting behaviour of the governments involved, the extraordinary personal risk taken by Assange, and the wider fundamental issues around press freedom that ...

Watch Now

Ithaka (2022)

The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man's fight to save his son. Arguably the world's most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a figure pretty much everybod ...

Watch Now

The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous (2020)

The Berrigan Brothers, Daniel and Philip were Catholic priests dedicated to non violent resistance of the violent policies of the United States government. They rose to prominence as outspoken opponents of the Vietnam War. ...

Watch Now

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky (2018)

This feature length high definition documentary follows one of the Nation's most controversial yet progressive leaders, 2012 Presidential candidate and Former two-term Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. ...

Watch Now

Risk (2017)

Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth and sa ...

Watch Now

Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words (2014)

From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. This film chronicles the content of those tapes, which include Nixon's conversations on the war in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers leak, his Supreme Court appoint ...

Watch Now

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality f ...

Watch Now

Our Nixon (2013)

Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency. ...

Watch Now

The Most Dangerous Man in America (2009)

"The Most Dangerous Man in America" is the story of what happens when a former Pentagon insider, armed only with his conscience, steadfast determination, and a file cabinet full of classified documents, decides to challenge an "imperial" presidency – ans ...

Watch Now

Axis of Evil: Perforated Praeter Naturam (2004)

AXIS OF EVIL is an experimental-feature-documentary-essay that features interviews with sixteen artists, scholars, and activists, including Howard Zinn, Daniel Ellsberg, Bernardine Dohrn, Martha Nussbaum, and others, talking about the concept of evil, its ...

Watch Now

Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004)

You Can't Be Neutral documents the life and times of the historian, activist and author of the best selling classic "A People's History of the United States". Featuring rare archival materials, interviews with Howard Zinn as well as colleagues and friends ...

Watch Now

Doomsday Chronicles (1979)

Plagued by wars, pollution and natural disasters, is man destined to self-destruction before the 20th century folds? Or can he escape the total annihilation the future may hold? ...

Watch Now

The Memory of Justice (1976)

This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the Nuremberg trials to those committed by the French in Algeria and those done by the Americans in Vietnam. The four ...

Watch Now

Hearts and Minds (1974)

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in t ...

Watch Now

Police Off Campus! (1970)

Police Off Campus! Was produced and directed by the students of the UCLA Motion Picture and Television Division following a large protest at UCLA on May 5, 1970, in which students were mobilized murder of white students at Kent State by police the day earl ...

Watch Now