Citizenfour (2014)

Directors

Laura Poitras

Cast

Ben Wizner, Carsten Gericke, David Miranda, Edward Snowden, Ewen MacAskill, Glenn Greenwald, Gonzalo Boye, H. Thomas Byron, Harry Pregerson, Jacob Appelbaum, Jeremy Scahill, Jonathan Man, José Casado, Julian Assange, Julian Borger, Kevin Bankston, Ladar Levison, Laura Poitras, Lindsay Mills, M. Margaret McKeown, Marcel Bosonnet, Marcel Rosenbach, Michael Daly Hawkins, Nick Hopkins, Paul Johnson, Rainer Staudhammer, Robert Tibbo, Roberto Kaz, William Bourdon, William Edward Binney, Wolfgang Kaleck

The story

thumb|left|thumbtime=1:05|Shot from the film trailer for Citizenfour In January 2013, Laura Poitras, an American documentary film director/producer who had been working for several years on a film about monitoring programs in the United States that were the result of the September 11 attacks, receives an encrypted e-mail from a stranger who calls himself "Citizen Four." (Per a 2014 Vice article featuring Poitras, Snowden chose this codename as a nod to three NSA whistleblowers who came before him: Bill Binney, J. Kirk Wiebe, and Thomas Drake.) In Snowden's initial message to Poitras, he offers her inside information about illegal…

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