MUBI

Very good documentary revealing some of the little known background and detail of the events leading to and motives behind Daniel Ellsberg’s leaking of the Pentagon papers to the press and some of the heroic risks taken by a number of people involved. When I saw the film Mr. Ellsberg spoke afterward about what we had seen, what many of us remembered about the time, and what was still missing from the story just presented to us. Good as the movie is – and it deserves to be seen widely as an example of how individual choices and individual courage can inspire change – the movie that could have been is even greater.