Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one-man crusade against government deception lives on in the work of such contemporary filmmakers and journalists as Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, David Corn, and Matt Taibbi.
I. F. Stone
as Self - Investigative journalist (archive footage)
Chris Hedges
as Self - Former correspondent, The New York Times
Leslie Moonves
as Self, president of CBS (voice) (archive footage)
Jeff Cohen
as Self, founding director, Park Center for Independent Media
Matt Taibbi
as Self - Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone magazine
John Carlos Frey
as Self - Independent journalist
Colin Powell
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger
as Self (archive footage)
Ralph Nader
as Self, author and political activist
Amy Goodman
as Self, host and executive producer, Democracy Now!
Jeremy Scahill
as Self, co-founder, The Intercept
Erin McLaughlin
as Self, reporter, CNN (archive footage)