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One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern

One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern

Actors:  George McGovern, Warren Beatty, James Abourezk, Chip Berlet, Frank Mankiewicz, Gore Vidal Directors:  Stephen Vittoria

ONE BRIGHT SHINING MOMENT retraces George McGovern's bold presidential campaign of 1972 - a grassroots campaign that fought for peace and justice, and positioned ideas and people first. But what is remembered today as being the ultimate political defeat of the American Century may also have been its high watermark. The film poses this central qu...

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