Traveling Hopefully (1982)
Roger Baldwin (January 21, 1884 - August 26, 1981).
A documentary about Roger Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU.
- Date of release
- 1982-01-06
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 28m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- John G. Avildsen
Casting
- Roger Baldwin — Self
- Carl Baldwin — Self - Roger's son (voice)
- Ramsey Clark — Self - Former U.S. Attorney General
- Norman Lear — Self - Television Producer
- Ted Kennedy — Self
- Andrew Young — Self - Ambassador
- Arthur Schlesinger Jr. — Self - Historian
- Norman Dorsen — Self - UCLA
- Hamilton Fish — Self - UCLA
- Gail Sheehy — Self - Author
- Frank Collin — Self - American Nazi (archive footage)
Interesting facts
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1
Traveling Hopefully is a 1982 American short documentary film directed by John G. Avildsen. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short at the 55th Academy Awards. It focuses on Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. Baldwin tells of how he got interested in civil liberties, and mentions a number of the cases in which the ACLU defended people or entities.
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