History worth knowing
“The Most Dangerous Man in America” catapults us to 1971 where we find America in the grip of a familiar scenario: a dirty war based on lies. And Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, one of the nation’s leading war planners, has the documents to prove it. Armed with 7000 pages of Top Secret documents; he leaks the truth about the Vietnam War to “The New York Times” and risks life in prison to end the war he helped plan. It is a story that held the world in its grip, with daily headlines, the top story on the nightly news for weeks on end.
What makes a dedicated Cold Warrior throw away his high-level access, his career, his friends, and risk life in prison for a mere CHANCE at helping to end the war? Ellsberg’s leak of the top-secret Pentagon Papers to “The New York Times” sets into motion an extraordinary series of events.
Film will be presented on the 3rd of August at the PGE Cinema at 1.30 p.m.