We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

2013/05/24 • Released • English

Documentary
6.6
2h 7m

The truth has consequences.

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.

Director : Alex Gibney

Casts
Julian Assange

Julian Assange

Self - Founder, WikiLeaks (archive footage)

Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Manning

Self - WikiLeaks Source (archive footage)

Heather Brooke

Self - Journalist

Alex Gibney

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

Gavin MacFadyen

Self - Director, Centre for Investigative Journalism

Donald Boström

Self - Investigative Journalist

Anna Ardin

Self - Former WikiLeaks Volunteer

Vaughan Smith

Vaughan Smith

Self - Video Journalist

Helena Kennedy

Self - Former Legal Adviser to Julian Assange

James Ball

Self - Journalist

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