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Director Alex Gibney
Runtime 2h 7m · R
Genres Documentary · Drama
Film We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks 2013 · R· 2h 7m· Documentary· Drama
“The truth has consequences.”
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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Julian Assange as Self - Founder, WikiLeaks (archive footage) Chelsea Manning as Self - WikiLeaks Source (archive footage) Heather Brooke as Self - Journalist Alex Gibney as Narrator (voice) Robert Manne as Self - Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne John 'Fuzface' McMahon as Self - NASA Network Administrator Michael Hayden as Self - Former NSA and CIA Director J. William Leonard as Self - U.S. Government Classification Czar Daniel Domscheit-Berg as Self - Former WikiLeaks Spokesperson Smári McCarthy as Self - Icelandic Digital Freedom Society Birgitta Jónsdóttir as Self - Icelandic Parliamentarian Adrian Lamo as Self - Hacker Timothy Douglas Webster as Self - Former Army Counterintelligence Agent Jason Edwards as Self - Friend of Bradley Manning Jihrleah Showman as Self - Bradley Manning's Supervisor Philip J. Crowley as Self - Former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Mark Davis as Self - Journalist & Filmmaker Ken Day as Self - Australian Federal Police Kevin Lee Poulsen as Self - News Editor, Wired.com Nick Davies as Self - Investigative Journalist, The Guardian Iain Overton as Self - Former Managing Editor Bureau of Investigative Journalism Gavin MacFadyen as Self - Director, Centre for Investigative Journalism Donald Boström as Self - Investigative Journalist Anna Ardin as Self - Former WikiLeaks Volunteer Vaughan Smith as Self - Video Journalist Helena Kennedy as Self - Former Legal Adviser to Julian Assange James Ball as Self - Journalist Key Crew
Full cast & crew (27 cast · 13 crew)
Details Runtime 2h 7m · R
Status Released
Studios Global Produce · Jigsaw Productions
Box office $602,042
Languages English
Countries United States of America
Rating 6.5/10 · 165 votes
Original language en
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