| Traveling Hopefully | |
| Director: | John G. Avildsen |
| Producer: | Steven Haft |
| Starring: | Roger Nash Baldwin Norman Lear |
| Music: | Bill Conti |
| Studio: | Arnuthfonyus Films |
| Distributor: | Films Inc. |
| Runtime: | 29 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Traveling Hopefully is a 1982 American short documentary film directed by John G. Avildsen. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.[1] It focuses on Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. Baldwin tells of how he got interested in civil liberties, and mentions a number of the cases in which the ACLU defended people or entities.
Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote "This is an amiable, well-intentioned documentary, but an extremely superficial one".[2] Also writing in the Times, John J. O'Connor stated that Traveling Hopefully "captures, with warmth, the admirable grittiness of an American original".[3]