Sundance Channel announced today the acquisition of U.S. pay television rights to Jeremy Gilley’s Peace One Day. The film was acquired from Films Transit, and will premiere on Sundance Channel on the United Nations International Day of Peace, September 21st at 9:00pm ET/PT. The film will also be available on Netflix.com in late September. For more information, visit the Sundance Channel website.

Jeremy Gilley’s Peace One Day documents the filmmaker’s own efforts to establish a day each year to acknowledging the ideal of global cease-fire. Beginning in 1999, Gilley traveled the world, talking with heads of state, Nobel Peace Laureates, aid agencies, freedom fighters, soldiers, and war victims in his goal of convincing several world governments to sponsor a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly.