IN THE NAME OF DEMOCACY: AMERICA’S CONSCIENCE, A SOLDIER’S SACRIFICE is a feature documentary narrated by Eli Wallach, about the court martial of Lieutenant Ehren Watada, the first officer in the US Army to refuse deployment to Iraq on moral grounds, whose first court-martial resulted in a mistrial. On October 2, 2009, Watada was discharged from the army under “Other than Honorable Conditions.”

The film delves into the lead up to the US entry into the Iraq war, and features interviews with Lt. Watada, Colonel Ann Wright, and General Wesley Clark. It asks important questions about American policy in Iraq and Afghanistan.