The story of Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon official who in 1971 at person peril leaked thousands of top secret pages to the press on the Vietnam War, a conflict which he himself had personally helped architect. Judith Ehrlich and Richard Goldsmith's documentary is not dressed up or apparently made with a lot of money, but still manages to be an engrossing, comprehensive record on a self-important whistleblower.
*** 1/2 out of ****
