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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Documentary · 2013
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.
The sides of We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
- Julian Assange and the rise of WikiLeaks
- Chelsea Manning and the leaked war files
- Governments, secrets and journalists
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is good for you if…
- you like seeing who controls secrets and who pays for leaking them.
- you want the real story behind Cablegate and the war logs.
- you'd rather judge Assange yourself than be handed a hero.
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is bad for you if…
- you find two hours of interviews too much for one evening.
- you can't watch real footage, filmed from a helicopter, of civilians shot in Baghdad.
About: secrecy · freedom of information · power · betrayal
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