Judith Ehrlich (born 1948) is an American film director, writer, and producer. Her work includes co-directing the 2009 documentary '' The Most Dangerous Man in America'', which was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the

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, won the Special Jury Award at the IDFA, won a

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, and was nominated for an

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for Exceptional Merit In Nonfiction Filmmaking.

Biography

After working as a teacher and curriculum developer, Ehrlich began creating documentaries in the 1980s. In the 1990s, she began work for

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that included research into American history with a focus on

pacifism Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace campaigner Émile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress in Glasgow in 1901. A related term is ...

. Some of this research was incorporated into the documentary ''The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It'', about

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during

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, that she wrote and directed with Rick Tejeda-Flores. The documentary features several conscientious objectors, including Stephen Cary, Bill Sutherland,

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, and

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, is narrated by

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and includes archival footage. The film was completed in 2000 and broadcast on

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in January 2002. For the 2009 documentary '' The Most Dangerous Man in America'', Ehrlich and her co-director Rick Goldsmith have said they began speaking with

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in 2004 about the development of a film, and then spent several years conducting research and obtaining access to archival footage before they began filming in 2007. In 2020, she released her documentary, ''

The Boys Who Said No! ''The Boys Who Said No!'' is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Judith Ehrlich about the anti-war and draft resistance movement in Oakland, California, which developed in opposition to the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War ...

'', about activism in the 1960s and 1970s in opposition to the

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References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ehrlich, Judith Living people American women film directors Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women