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Documentary /
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Actors:
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John Dean,
Daniel Ellsberg,
Patricia Ellsberg,
Max Frankel,
Bud Krogh,
Tony Russo,
Hedrick Smith
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Duration:
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92 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)72
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Plot Summary:
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"The Most Precarious Man in America" is the story of what happens when a former Pentagon insider, armed only with his morals, unflinching fortitude, and a commode saturated of classified documents, decides to dare an "Regal" Presidency-answerable to neither Congress, the pack, nor the people-in grouping to help end the Vietnam War. In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg shook America to its foundations when he smuggled a trim-secret Pentagon study to the Original York Times that showed how five Presidents uniformly lied to the American people about the Vietnam Struggling that was murder millions and teari... ng America not counting. President Nixon's National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger called Ellsberg "the most rickety inhibit in America," who "had to be stopped at all costs." But Ellsberg wasn't stopped. Facing 115 years in bridewell on espionage and foul play charges, he fought back. Ensuing events surrounding the so-called Pentagon Papers led directly to Watergate and the downfall of President Nixon, and hastened the between of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg's unfaltering telling of actuality to power, which exposed the secret deeds of an "Kingly Presidency," inspired Americans of all walks of memoirs to forever enquiry the previously-unchallenged pronouncements of its leaders. "The Most Unsafe Man in America" tells the inside story, in search the first time on film, of this pivotal consequence that changed history and transformed our nation's federal discourse. It is told in general by the players of that dramatic chapter-Ellsberg, his colleagues, family and critics; Pentagon Papers authors and government officials; Vietnam veterans and anti-engage in combat with activists; Watergate principals, attorneys and the journalists who both covered the facts and were an integral part of it; and inexorably-through Milky Firm audiotapes-President Nixon and his inner of advisors.
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