Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth and sacrifice.
Direction
Poitras turns her own ethical crisis into the narrative engine.
Editing
Years of footage collapse into something uncomfortably intimate.
Director
Laura Poitras
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Poitras started this before Citizenfour, meaning she had two simultaneous secret projects about mass surveillance.
Released months before the 2016 election, the film's portrait of Assange's anti-Clinton animus now reads as prophecy—or warning unheeded.
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