Daniel Ellsberg
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Biography
Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers. In January 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 al...
Known For
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Colbert Report
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
American Experience
Self
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Self - Anti-Nuclear Activist & Whistleblower
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Self - Rand Corporation Analyst 1959 - 1964
Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories
Self (archive footage)
The Memory of Justice
Self
Filmography
The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream
2026
The Six Billion Dollar Man
2025
as Self
Kissinger
2025
as Self (archival footage)
The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
2024
as Self
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
2024
as Self - Anti-Nuclear Activist & Whistleblower
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
2024
as Self - Rand Corporation Analyst 1959 - 1964
Ithaka
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
2020
as Self
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018
as Self
Risk
2017
as Self
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Our Nixon
2013
as Self
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
2013
as Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
Julian Assange: A Modern Day Hero?
2011
as Self - Whistleblower
Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories
2011
as Self (archive footage)
The Most Dangerous Man in America
2009
as Self (Narraror)
The Colbert Report
2005
as Self
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
2004
as Self
Axis of Evil: Perforated Praeter Naturam
2004
Nixon
1990
as Self (archive footage)
American Experience
1988
as Self
Doomsday Chronicles
1979
as Self
The Memory of Justice
1976
as Self
Hearts and Minds
1974
as Self - Former Aide, Defense Dept., Rand Corp.
Police Off Campus!
1970
as Himself
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self