As The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers competes for a Primetime Emmy award, we thank the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the many organizations who've arranged screenings, discussions and workshops and produced original broadcast programming over the past year.

POV's The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, directed and produced by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith, has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

Yesterday's 40th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers got a lot of attention in the media. Here's a roundup of coverage from around the Web. And don't forget, you can watch The Most Dangerous Man: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers on the POV website until midnight tonight!

POV is marking the 40th anniversary of the publication of Pentagon Papers with a special opportunity to watch The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers online.

Our community partners across the country are busy hosting screenings of upcoming and past POV documentaries. Last night, Kings of Pastry was screened to a lively crowd of 200 at the Brooklyn Museum and was followed by a great discussion with Jacques Torres (“Mr. Chocolate”) and filmmakers D A Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus. While the audience […]

Celebrating its 24th season on PBS in 2011, POV features the work of the best independent documentary filmmakers from America and around the world. This season, POV films examine such diverse topics as the last generation of children to grow up behind the “Iron Curtain” of the USSR, the lives of soldiers before, during and […]

Theresa Riley reports on her experience attending this year's public media INPUT conference, held from May 9-12, 2011 in Seoul, South Korea.

On May 26, POV films will be seen on screens from Maine to Michigan to California. Our partners have started hosting sneak previews of the upcoming POV season, so don’t miss out on a free screening near you! Brooklyn, NY Kings of Pastry Thursday, May 26, 2011, 7 PM The Brooklyn Museum continues its Thursday […]

Our partners have already started hosting sneak previews of the upcoming POV season — 150 people came out last night to see My Perestroika at the Brooklyn Museum! A great Q&A followed the screening with filmmaker Robin Hessman and the Meyerson family, who are featured in the film. Two of our fantastic community partners — […]

POV’s Community Network members are holding free screenings of POV films around the country all year long. Last year, we had over 500 screenings! Check out some of the exciting community events coming up over the next week… Rochester, NY The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Sunday, May 1, […]

POV’s Community Network members are holding free screenings of POV films around the country all year long. Last year, we had over 500 screenings! Check out some of the exciting community events coming up over the next week… Berkeley, CA The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Thursday, April 28, […]

POV’s Community Network members are holding free screenings of POV films around the country all year long. Last year, we had over 500 screenings! We’ll be posting a listing of the coming week’s events every Friday here on the blog, but you can always view the full calendar on our local events page. Check out […]

Be sure to tune in to Need to Know on PBS tonight for an interview with Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower and the subject of next week’s POV special, The Most Dangerous Man in America. Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.

Watch this Sunday’s Oscar ceremonies for mentions of two POV films nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category — Food, Inc. and The Most Dangerous Man in America. Food, Inc. airs on PBS next month.

Nominations for the 2010 Academy Awards were announced this morning in Los Angeles, and we were thrilled to hear that two upcoming POV films, Food, Inc. and The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, were nominated for Best Documentary Feature. About Food, Inc.: How much do we know about the […]