American Umpire Spotlight Highlights the Documentary for Viewers

New to Films On Demand, the American Umpire spotlight is a thoughtful and balanced documentary about U.S. foreign policy. It shows how the U.S. became the world’s policeman. It also asks how long we must keep playing this role. Narrated by Jim Lehrer, formerly of The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, the film explores American military intervention. It also examines the future of America’s military commitments abroad. Award-winning historian Elizabeth Cobbs wrote the film.

About American Umpire

After detailing the principles that guided U.S. foreign policy for 150 years and the sea change that followed WWII, the latter half of the one-hour documentary examines America’s contemporary role on the international stage. The film concludes by asking whether it’s time to rethink our current policies, scale down military spending, and bring our allies back into the game as fellow umpires. American Umpire combines archival footage with candid interviews from former secretaries of state George Shultz, Madeleine Albright, and Condoleezza Rice; General Jim Mattis and Lt. General Karl Eikenberry, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; Nobel Prize winner Michael Spence; Pulitzer Prize winner David Kennedy; and eight scholars from around the world.

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