Plot
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?
Written by
Daniel Domscheit-Berg, David Leigh, Luke Harding
Directed by
Bill Condon
Crew
Production Countries
United States of America, Belgium, India
Production Companies
DreamWorks Pictures, Anonymous Content, Touchstone Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Participant
Languages
English
Awards
2 wins & 3 nominations total