A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to
expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet
upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.
Storyline
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict
Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team
up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a
shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to
anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of
government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more
hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined.
But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of
confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each
other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping
secrets in a free society-and what are the costs of exposing them?
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