Bill W.

The documentary is about William G. Wilson. Wilson was a co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. He was dependent on alcohol for many years himself. The illness brought him close to death. Then he found his own way out. He opened that way to others as well. The account moves through interviews. Recreations and archive material are used. The fellowship began with a handful of men. In time it spread around the world. Membership passed two million. Wilson became a figure because of that. Yet he could not be a member of what he had built. His life was spent in service and sacrifice. What he built carries on today. Two directors made the one hundred four minute documentary. It is a Canadian and American production finished in 2012.