Speechless
“In the battle over free speech… who gets the last word?”
Synopsis
In 2017, Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Ric Esther Bienstock set out to investigate campus free speech controversies - and uncovered an ideological war reshaping universities and democracy itself. With secret recordings, raw phone footage, and unprecedented access to professors, administrators and students on the front lines, Speechless is an eight-year investigation into how pressure from the Left inside campuses provoked a fierce counteroffensive from the Right - turning higher education into a political battleground and exposing what’s lost when debate gives way to dogma.
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- Bret Weinsteinas Self - Former Professor Evolutionary Biology
- Christopher Rufoas Self - Conservative Activist & New College of Florida Trustee
- Libby Harrityas Self - Former New College of Florida Student Senate President
- Kathleen Stockas Self - Former University of Sussex Professor of Philosophy
- Zack De Pieroas Self - Former Penn State University Assistant Teaching Professor of English Composition
- Tabia Leeas Self - Former Faculty Director
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13 unique people credited
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Bret Weinstein
as Self - Former Professor Evolutionary Biology
Christopher Rufo
as Self - Conservative Activist & New College of Florida Trustee
Libby Harrity
as Self - Former New College of Florida Student Senate President
Kathleen Stock
as Self - Former University of Sussex Professor of Philosophy
Zack De Piero
as Self - Former Penn State University Assistant Teaching Professor of English Composition
Tabia Lee
as Self - Former Faculty Director
Yoleidy Rosario Hernandez
as Self - Former New College of Florida Chief Diversity Officer and Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Erec Smith
as Self - Associate Professor of Rhetoric
Richard Corcoran
as Self - New College of Florida President
Carole Hooven
as Self - Former Human Evolutionary Biology Lecturer at Harvard University
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