It felt like something you would watch on the Discovery channel on a Sunday afternoon. A pretty interesting story, but the interviews themselves were not very illuminative. I would have had a similar kind of experience if I had just read an article or a book on the Pentagon Papers. The documentary format added nothing here.

The story of a man's heroism.

Not an alarmingly great documentary. Intriguing enough to carry it.

The film is pretty straightforward but manages to touch on a number of themes, many of which resonate with the current situation in the Middle East. What I found most intriguing was the reaction of the public, who seemed more interested in the media spectacle than the actual content of the documents. This movie most definitely brings to mind Fog of War, not just in content, but it also mimics a lot of Morris' techniques. It's even tempting to cry "rip-off", but let's just say "spin-off".

Acts as sort of a companion piece to "The Fog of War", looking through the Vietnam struggle through the very specific, and sometimes myopic, lens of Ellsberg's case.