Long before Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, there was Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon analyst who unleashed a political firestorm in 1971 by leaking classified Vietnam War documents.
This acclaimed, Emmy Award-nominated production – released, coincidentally enough, during the 2003 run-up to the Iraq War –stars Boston Legal’s James Spader as Ellsberg, whose experiences in Vietnam and his access to confidential papers regarding the conduct of the Southeast Asia campaign turned him into an ardent anti-war activist.
Determined to help bring an end to the conflict, Ellsberg provided The New York Times and other media with copies of the exhaustive 7,000-page study known as the “Pentagon Papers,” which revealed that four successive U.S. administrations had lied to Congress and the public about the progress of the war effort.
Paul Giamatti (Barney’s Version), Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Claire Forlani (CSI: NY) also star. Rod Holcomb (ER) directed, from a script by Jason Horwitch (Rubicon).
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