Alex Gibney‘s new Wikileaks documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was then picked up by Focus Features for a May 24 release.
The film is one of two major features focusing on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange coming out this year, the other being the dramatization of his story titled The Fifth Estate in which Benedict Cumberbatch plays the infamous Australian.
The documentary comes with the following synopsis:
Filmed with the startling immediacy of unfolding history, Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney’s We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is a riveting, multi-layered tale about transparency in the information age and our ever-elusive search for the truth. Detailing the creation of Julian Assange’s controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history, the film charts the enigmatic Assange’s rise and fall in parallel with that of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the brilliant, troubled young soldier who downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents from classified U.S. military and diplomatic servers.
Check out the first trailer for the film directly below.
