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D.M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker

Awarded the Grand Prize for Best Feature Length Film at the 2011 Portland Humanist Film Festival – this documentary film chronicles the life of publisher D.M. Bennett (1818-1882).

D.M. Bennett was nineteenth-century America’s most controversial and unjustly imprisoned editor of the “blasphemous” New York City free-thought periodical “The Truth Seeker”.

Written, produced, and directed by Roderick Bradford, author of the biography D.M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker (Prometheus Books). Edited by Tom Flynn at the Center for Inquiry, Amherst, New York. Funded by a grant from the James Hervey Johnson Charitable Educational Trust.

Released in 2011. 60 min. Director: Roderick Bradford. Indie documentary film.

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  • Roy

    An elegant portrayal of a great man I had never heard of and should have.

  • Kim

    Wow I couldn’t even finish this because as a strong Christian I felt attacked. I wanted to watch the documentary to learn about someone I haven ‘t heard of in the past but was very uncomfortable with the strong slant of the documentary against Christianity.

    Very sad.

    By the way the author isn’t very good at interviews he sounded so stiff.

    • Unl3622

      Your faith must not be very strong if you could not watch a video.

      • AddNewComment1

        No, your faith must be very wrong if you can not watch a video….especially since it was not “christian bashing” as “Kim” interpreted

    • trollolol

      If you find anything in this documentary offensive to you as a christian, you need an education.

    • AddNewComment1

      you felt “attacked” because the story was about someone with beliefs other than your own.

  • Bruce

    I could not watch it to the end because it was so boring. Its pictures and talk. Very occasionally a little archive footage.

  • Sam

    Interesting doc. Especially since it’s about a 19th century publisher – before film footage existed.