90m
Directors: Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith
Synopsis (Moyers): The story of Daniel Ellsberg, the Vietnam War strategist-turned whistleblower who leaked the documents that came to be known as the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times.
Website: http://www.mostdangerousman.org/
110m; France
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand and Patrick Bruel
Synopsis: Inspired by the Elf Aquitaine scandal of the 1990s, which exposed extensive corruption in France’s giant gas company
55m; U.S.
Director: Rebecca Schanberg
Synopsis: Two reluctant whistleblowers in a small Georgia town endure relentless attacks as the struggle to draw national attention to hospital corruption and the plight of the uninsured.
131m; U.S.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin
Synopsis: Based on the true story of an unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city’s water supply.
108m; U.S.
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Sonya Davison
Synopsis: Based on story of Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame, the married couple who were at the centerstorm of a Washington, D.C. scandal over Plame’s outing as an undercover CIA operative by Washington Post journalist Robert Novak. The scandal, known in the press as “Plamegate”, destroyed her career and rocked the White House as accusations were leveled against the Bush administration and its allies. Ambassador Wilson made the charge that the Bush administration had knowingly leaked his wife’s covert status as a direct response for his public statements that the administration played up or outright lied that Iraq had uranium in its possession to make nuclear bombs.
119m; U.S.
Director: Marc Abraham
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham and Alan Alda
Synopsis: Corporations have time, money, and power on their side. All Bob Kearns had was the truth. Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.
123m; U.S.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Synopsis: This film is based on the life story of Brazilian rubber tapper, environmentalist, and union leader Chico Mendes who led a movement of indigenous rubber tappers in the Brazilian Amazon in struggle against powerful Brazilian rancher interests and multinational corporations and institutions.
115m; U.S.
Director: Steven Zaillian
Cast: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy
The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste: a tort so expensive to prove, the case could bankrupt their lawyer.
24 episodes; U.S.
Director: Michael Moore
Synopsis: Activist film director Micheal Moore hosts a show where he continues his crusade to expose wrongdoing by the high and mighty.
122m; Mexico
Director: Carlos Carrera
Synopsis: The true story of the border town of Juarez, Mexico where since the mid-90’s thousands of women have gone missing or turned up as sun-burnt corpses in the desert. Can new police captain Blanca Bravo stop the savagery?
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