Traveling Hopefully (1982)

Name: Traveling Hopefully
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1982-01-06

28m

Running Time

Plot.

A documentary about Roger Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU.

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Cast & Crew.

John G. Avildsen

Director

Steven Haft

Executive Producer

Bruce Ettinger

Editor

Roger Baldwin

Self

Ramsey Clark

Self - Former U.S. Attorney General

Hamilton Fish

Self

Ted Kennedy

Self

Norman Lear

Self - Television Producer

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Self - Historian

Bill Conti

Composer

Richard E. Brooks

Cinematographer

Jon Fauer

Cinematographer

Details.

Release Date
January 6, 1982

Status
Released

Running Time
28m

Wiki.

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. 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.