Jeffrey Hartmann

A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013) [N/A]

Release Date:
April 19, 2013

Original Title:
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

Genres:
Documentary

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
N/A

Runtime: 66

Overview from TheMovieDB

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality for whistleblowers and the press. The film includes interviews with whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl and Thomas Tamm and award-winning journalists like David Carr, Lucy Dalglish, Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Michael Isikoff, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton, Jane Mayer, Dana Priest, Tom Vanden Brook and Sharon Weinberger.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form

Video

Click each video panel to show or hide.

Trailer

Although TheMovieDB might provide a key to a YouTube video, there is no guarantee that the video might be present at YouTube.

Performers

Daniel Ellsberg
Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
Franz Gayl
Self - Whistleblower
Seymour Hersh
Self - Journalist
David Carr
Self - Journalist, New York Times
Sharon Weinberger
Self - National Security Reporter
Tom Vanden Brook
Self - Journalist, USA Today
Danielle Brian
Self - Executive Director at Project On Government Oversight
Conchita Gayl
Self - Franz Gayl's Wife
Joe Biden
Self - Vice President (archive footage)
Robert Gates
Self - Former Secretary of Defense
Ben Freeman
Self - National Security Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight
Winslow Wheeler
Self - Director of the Straus Military Reform Project
William Hartung
Self - Director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy
Pete Sepp
Self - Executive Vice President for National Taxpayers Union
Dana Priest
Self - Investigative Reporter, Washington Post
Michael Isikoff
Self - National Investigative Correspondent for NBC News
Thomas Drake
Self - Whistleblower
Michael DeKort
Self - Whistleblower
Thomas Tamm
Self - Whistleblower
Jane Mayer
Self - Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Tom Devine
Self - Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project
Bill Keller
Self - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
Eric Lipton
Self - Investigative Reporter, The New York Times
Kate Bohner
Self - KBTV Video Blog
Jesselyn Radack
Self - Director of National Security and Human Rights, Government Accountability Project
J. William Leonard
Self - Former Director of the Information Security Oversight Office
Steven Aftergood
Himself - Director of the Project on Government Secrecy, The Federation of American Scientists
Barack Obama
Self - President (archive footage)
Jake Tapper
Self - Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN (archive footage)
Jay Carney
Self - White House Press Secretary (archive footage)
Lucy Dalglish
Herself - Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
James Risen
Self - New York Times (archive footage)
Chelsea Manning
Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)
John Kiriakou
Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)
Glenn Greenwald
Self - Journalist, The Guardian
Shannon Bream
Self - Fox News Anchor (archive footage)
Stephen Vladeck
Self - American University Washington College of Law (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Pierre Sprey
Self - Weapons Designer and Analyst

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

Production

Director:
Robert Greenwald

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.