We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
6.5
|Documentary
2013-05-24
127 mins
The Plot
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.
Cast and Crew
Julian Assange
Self - Founder, WikiLeaks (archive footage)
Chelsea Manning
Self - WikiLeaks Source (archive footage)
Heather Brooke
Self - Journalist
Alex Gibney
Narrator (voice)
Robert Manne
Self - Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne
John 'Fuzface' McMahon
Self - NASA Network Administrator
Michael Hayden
Self - Former NSA and CIA Director
J. William Leonard
Self - U.S. Government Classification Czar
Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Self - Former WikiLeaks Spokesperson
Smári McCarthy
Self - Icelandic Digital Freedom Society
Birgitta Jónsdóttir
Self - Icelandic Parliamentarian
Adrian Lamo
Self - Hacker
Timothy Douglas Webster
Self - Former Army Counterintelligence Agent
Jason Edwards
Self - Friend of Bradley Manning
Jihrleah Showman
Self - Bradley Manning's Supervisor
Philip J. Crowley
Self - Former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
Mark Davis
Self - Journalist & Filmmaker
Ken Day
Self - Australian Federal Police
Kevin Lee Poulsen
Self - News Editor, Wired.com
Nick Davies
Self - Investigative Journalist, The Guardian
Iain Overton
Self - Former Managing Editor Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Gavin MacFadyen
Self - Director, Centre for Investigative Journalism
Donald Boström
Self - Investigative Journalist
Anna Ardin
Self - Former WikiLeaks Volunteer
Vaughan Smith
Self - Video Journalist
Helena Kennedy
Self - Former Legal Adviser to Julian Assange