The Pentagon Papers
Production:
- Produced by FX Networks, premier broadcast March 9, 2003
- Directed by Rod Holcomb
- Written by Jason Horwitch
- Produced by Stephen J. Turnbull
- Original Music by Normand Corbeil
- Cinematography by Michael Mayers
Cast:
- James Spader as Daniel Ellsberg
- Paul Giamatti as Anthony Russo
- Alan Arkin as Harry Rowen
- Hannah Lochner as young Mary Ellsberg
- Hayley Lochner as Mary Ellsberg
- Mark Benesh as Leonard Compson III
- Jonas Chernick as Neil Sheehan
- Michael Stevens as Russo's Lawyer
Notes:
This film is based on the true story of Daniel Ellsberg, hired by Pentagon in 1967 to research and write the historical study of the Vietnam War that became known as the Pentagon Papers, who copied and leaked some of the papers to the New York Times that began to publish them in 1971, "the high-ranking Pentagon official whose greatest act of Patriotism was an act of Treason.
At the height of the Vietnam War, Ellsberg turned over a 7000 page
classified Department of Defense document to reporters at The New York Times
and Washington Post, which proved that the war in Vietnam could not be won.
Historians widely regard this act as being a seminal moment in the anti-war
effort to bring American soldiers home from Southeast Asia." (FX)
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