Mighty Ira

Mighty Ira

Mighty Ira

Great movie, it raises awareness to something most people don't know, along with teaching us how freedom of speech is for everyone, not just the side you are on.

This is a movie everyone should watch and a concept everyone should know. It teaches us about how to lead and what we can do to make a positive effect on our community.

A wonderful and powerful documentary about the importance of free speech. Not only does the film show how the best way to combat dangerous or hateful speech is with better speech, but it also shows to how to keep humanity even through ideological debate. I particularly appreciated learning about Ira's friendship with Buckley, and the conversations he has with a Skokie resident who survived The Holocaust. The film showed how people can disagree respectfully and still laugh together and enjoy each other's company. Learned a lot not just about one man, but about a way of life and thinking that needs to be reintroduced to our hyper partisan world.

Mighty Ira shows how a principled man can make all the difference. Ira Glasser looked a Holocaust survivor in the eyes as he told him he will fight for the right of a Neo-Nazi group to exercise their First Amendment rights. Glasser is a man to admire because he chooses to do what he believes is right in an honest, compassionate, and uncompromising manner. The story, pacing, and cinematography are all well-done. The film does not try to be anything other than it is-a story about a man who believes in the ideals of liberty and navigates his way through a messy world in order to live up to them.

It's a joy to meet Ira Glasser, the down-to-earth, extremely funny and intensely principled hero of this joyous doc. I'm appalled that I would have known nothing about him without this movie (and my parents lived in Skokie!!!). So glad I got to "meet" Mighty Ira through this very warm, inspiring film about free speech, and its importance to the left, right, center -- the very heart of America. Makes me proud!

Some documentaries, especially political ones, preach at you. Some are just boring because there's no storyline - just someone pushing their viewpoint and you either agree or you're a monster. Mighty Ira is different because of it's presentation. We learn the story of the Nazi march in Skokie and why the ACLU supported it. But the kicker is that all parties, in the end, respect the other side and demonstrate that we really can agree to disagree. And more than that, genuine friendships can develop between the most unlikely people. No one is cancelled, no one is disrespected (well, maybe the ACTUAL Nazis). This is a political movie that REDUCES stress. How rare is that!?

Now, more than ever, advocacy for free speech and the uninhibited exchange of ideas is essential to the maintenance of a free society. Perrino and FIRE do just that with this documentary. 100% recommend this film for spreading the contagious idea that more speech, not less, preserves a free and open society.