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The truth has consequences. - We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
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Title: We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

Release Date: 24 May 2013

Runtime: 2h 7m

Genre: Documentary

Director: Global Produce, Jigsaw Productions

Production Companies: Global Produce, Jigsaw Productions

Overview: Julian Assange. Bradley Manning. Collateral murder. Cablegate. WikiLeaks. These people and terms have exploded into public consciousness by fundamentally changing the way democratic societies deal with privacy, secrecy, and the right to information, perhaps for generations to come. We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is an extensive examination of all things related to WikiLeaks and the larger global debate over access to information.

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Cast

  • Self - Founder, WikiLeaks (archive footage): Julian Assange
  • Self - WikiLeaks Source (archive footage): Chelsea Manning
  • Self - Journalist: Heather Brooke
  • Narrator (voice): Alex Gibney
  • Self - Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne: Robert Manne
  • Self - NASA Network Administrator: John 'Fuzface' McMahon
  • Self - Former NSA and CIA Director: Michael Hayden
  • Self - U.S. Government Classification Czar: J. William Leonard
  • Self - Former WikiLeaks Spokesperson: Daniel Domscheit-Berg
  • Self - Icelandic Digital Freedom Society: Smári McCarthy
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