We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013)
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Reviews Counted: 73
Fresh: 69 | Rotten: 4
As fascinating as it is provocative, We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks presents another documentary triumph for director Alex Gibney, as well as a troubling look at one of the more meaningful issues of our time.
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 2
As fascinating as it is provocative, We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks presents another documentary triumph for director Alex Gibney, as well as a troubling look at one of the more meaningful issues of our time.
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Acclaimed documentarian Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) takes the reins for this no-holds-barred look at one of the most unusual phenomena of early 21st century media. In 2006, an Iceland-based outfit called The Sunshine Press launched the website WikiLeaks.org. As run by Australian Internet activist Julian Assange, the site's mandate involved regularly publishing top-secret documents and covert information, often regarding governments and their respective military operations.
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This thorough, engrossing film shows how idealistic Aussie hacker Julian Assange took on the might of the US, exposing their military and diplomatic misconduct, then allowed his own murky personal life to tarnish his credibility.
Top CriticSometimes it takes a feature-length documentary to stitch together a story we think we already know.
A real-life cyber-thriller with real-life consequences, Alex Gibney's We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is a riveting and revelatory documentary ...
Gibney builds a remarkable level of suspense, given how exhaustively WikiLeaks has been covered in the media.
Engaging, kinetic, revelatory and unexpected.
At once an awkward mingling of two complex life stories and a gripping, necessary look at how information is gathered, shared and, yes, stolen.
Words on the screen, their power to free you, and also entrap you - if this isn't the internet's deadly blessing, what is?
The film creates an astonishing picture of the complex new world of internet communications, intelligence and the ever-expanding web of post-cold war secrecy.
Having recently released documentaries on clerical abuse, Mario Cuomo, Park Avenue, Lance Armstrong and, now, WikiLeaks, Gibney seems in danger of becoming an actualité machine.
Outstanding, cool-headed documentary.
Compelling, enlightening and utterly accessible, Gibney's ultra-slick pop-doc cleaves through the thorniest thicket of contemporary political issues to find, at its heart, two wholly human stories.
A breathless, dazzling and mind-blowingly complex 130-minute story.
I'd have liked to know more about his private life and background but Gibney has too much other ground to cover.
We Steal Secrets is much concerned with conspiracy theories and may well wind up fuelling new ones.
A thorough and decently intentioned work, though it accepts a little too glibly the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger line against Assange: that he is a fascinating radical who simply became a paranoid authoritarian.
With a subject matter that oddly feels both timely and out-of-date, this documentary is packed with telling details about WikiLeaks, Although it gets muddy as it delves into the lives of founder Julian Assange and whistleblower Bradley Manning.
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This is an expertly organised documentary; Gibney's always are.
In truth, there's little in Alex Gibney's film that won't be familiar to attentive news watchers, but this skilled documentarian has mastered the art of condensing a vast and complex amount of information into a gripping and entertaining package.
The range of Gibney's subjects, the rigour of his research and the complexity of his questions make We Steal Secrets breathlessly compelling, but it's the moments of psychological probing that haunt the most.
Noxious government activities may warrant exposure, but Gibney points out that the whistleblowers can be pretty flawed too.
Alex Gibney adds to his forensic examinations of Enron and Abu Ghraib with another fine documentary.
Alex Gibney has shone his spotlight into a few dark corners and shown us something worthy of discussion.
A thoughtful documentary about Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, secrets, lies, power and the poorly understood nature of the internet.
If you're looking for a really comprehensive, clear, evenhanded and thoroughly entertaining examination of, well, the story of WikiLeaks, master documentarian Alex Gibney has gone to the trouble of providing you with one.
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- We Steal Secrets: Die WikiLeaks Geschichte (DE)
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