We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

2013 "The truth has consequences."
6.9| 2h7m| R| en
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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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Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!
Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.
Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
poe-48833 In a recent interview on DEMOCRACY NOW!, Julian Assange referred to Wikileaks as "the Rebel Library of Alexandrea." He's right: without the Revelations of the past several years, we'd still be in the dark about so much. Unfortunately, a lot of people are STILL in the dark about a LOT of things. For instance: the melting ice in Greenland is on the verge of laying bare nuclear waste that was buried there decades ago. There are hundreds if not thousands of cities in the U.$. with LEAD in the drinking water (including, believe it or not, Wasshington, D.C.!). Just two days ago (here in Crack Town, of all places!), presidential wannabe McDonald Dump verbally assaulted Hitlery Clinton (whose support of the bloody coup in Hondouras recently led to the murder of Environmental Activist Berta Caceres, which may yet come back to haunt her), suggesting that some "second amendment" remedies to her attack ads against him might be in order. (Blackmailed J. Edgar "the Hoover" once proclaimed that there was "no such thing as the Mafia." Now we get Giuliani- who claims to have "put the Mafia out of business"- speaking out on Trump's behalf; the same Trump whose ties to the Ku Klux Klan and organized crime are well documented.) (The Mafia has been a major player in American politics from Day One. See ULTIMATE SACRIFICE by Lamar Waldren and Thom Hartmann for the Final Word on the Kennedy assassinations.) Fux "news" head honcho Roger Ails has joined the Bill Cosby team after decades of sexually harassing female employees (handing the reigns of the Empire over to the murderous Murdochs). The title of this documentary is taken from a statement by former CIA head Michael Hayden, who was speaking of the United $tate$ when he said, "We steal secrets..." Ironic, eh? Freedom of Information doesn't exist, these days: there's a pretty hefty price to be paid for telling the Truth in this company. George Orwell would've understood, as would Franz Kafka.
Hadrian Beath After watching this film, I wanted to research this film further (something I typically do after watching a documentary, rather than taking a film at face value).After internet searching for Assange's response to the documentary, I found the Wikileaks' response in the form of an annotated transcript of the film. The documentary appears to be a slick piece of anti-Wikileaks propaganda, peddled as critical and objective journalism. I won't go into this further as other reviews provide information challenging the factual errors.I encourage you to read the transcript yourself and make up your own mind. Because IMDb does not allow reviews to include URLs, I can not provide the direct link to the transcript. However, it can be found by performing an internet search for the following: "We Steal Secrets the annotated transcript".
seanrkearney If this film tells us anything its that the mainstream media like their corporate paymasters are very much in bed with the governmental organizations who Julian Assange and others looks to expose. From its title its clear that this is film offers little in the way of objective journalism and instead tows the mainstream media line that Assange is not a whistle blower but in fact an irresponsible thief. There is some interesting facts included in the documentary but its inability to remain objective for me at least undermined its credibility and its value as a serious work. Of course without Assange and people like Bradley Manning the worst excesses of government and corporate society would never come to light. A message this film conspicuously overlooks.
John Raymond Peterson IMDb's plot outline is brief when it says 'A documentary that details the creation of Julian Assange's controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history', but it fails to mention that the movie covers many more security breaches besides U.S. ones; it's just that all those other revelations pale in comparison.As documentaries go, this work falls short of the mark by a country mile as there are no interviews of the key people, other than rehashed stuff seen before, here and there. That being said, for those who only have a superficial knowledge of Wikileaks and its founder, you will learn a great deal you ought to know. I didn't think the movie was a hatchet job on Julian Assange, but it certainly doesn't glamorize him. It touched on several very influential achievements of WikiLeaks, without really getting to the meat of any of them. I suppose if you're interested in some of those topics you'll be tempted to dig on your own, on Wikileaks website (amazingly still up on the web). I recommend you do; it's as enlightening as any other good read, very.The 'Cablegate' scandal, which effects are still being felt today, the match that lit the flames of the Arab Spring and has been the bane of Obama's presidency almost from the start is talked about in this documentary, though not nearly as extensively as I felt it should, will blow your mind. You might even understand why so many leaders and countries despise the U.S, if you don't already. The cocoon of protection from secrets large corporations have hidden their shameful deeds has been shattered thanks to WikiLeaks; the veil of righteousness of world leaders has been ripped off their indignant looking faces to reveal the real world. But this movie did not come close to making that point unfortunately, unless you read between the lines.Assange's own credibility and motivation are covered and that admittedly will not reflect well on the man, but it should not deter anyone from consulting the website. I enjoyed watching this movie, but I have to admit it's not for the well informed; I recommend it to everyone else.

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