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Snowden (2016)
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Show Hide Plot:SNOWDEN stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and is written and directed by Oliver Stone. The script is based on the books The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena.
- MPAA Rating: 'R'
- Writers:
- Kieran Fitzgerald (screenplay by)
- Oliver Stone (screenplay by)
- Luke Harding (book)
- Anatoly Kucherena (book)
- Actors:
- Melissa Leo
- Zachary Quinto
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Jaymes Butler
- Awards: 3 wins & 7 nominations.
- Production: Open Road Films
- Director:
- Oliver Stone
- Runtime: 134 min
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 60%
- Metacritic: 58/100
- Genres:
- Biography
- Drama
- Thriller
- Website: http://snowdenfilm.com/
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Citizenfour (2014)
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Show Hide Plot:In January 2013, Laura Poitras started receiving anonymous encrypted e-mails from "CITIZENFOUR," who claimed to have evidence of illegal covert surveillance programs run by the NSA in collaboration with other intelligence agencies worldwide. Five months later, she and reporters Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The resulting film is history unfolding before our eyes.
- MPAA Rating: 'R'
- Actors:
- Edward Snowden
- Glenn Greenwald
- William Binney
- Jacob Appelbaum
- Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 43 wins & 35 nominations.
- Production: Radius-TWC
- Director:
- Laura Poitras
- Runtime: 114 min
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
- Metacritic: 88/100
- Genres:
- Documentary
- Biography
- News
- Thriller
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War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)
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Show Hide Plot:War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse.
- MPAA Rating: 'NOT RATED'
- Actors:
- Daniel Ellsberg
- Franz Gayl
- Seymour Hersh
- David Carr
- Production: Cinedigm
- Director:
- Robert Greenwald
- Runtime: 67 min
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 60%
- Genre:
- Documentary
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