CITIZENFOUR [BLU-RAY] [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 2014
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: 2014's Academy Award winning documentary Citizenfour is a real life international thriller that unfolds by the minute. With unprecedented access, this gripping behind-the-scenes chronicle follows award winning director Laura Poitras (My Country, My Country) and journalist Glenn Greenwald's remarkable encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA).; ; The documentary not only shows the dangers of governmental surveillance, but makes audiences feel them. After seeing the film, viewers will never think the same way about their phone, e-mail, credit cards, web browser or digital footprint again.
• Cast: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum, Ewen MacAskill, Jeremy Scahill, M. Margareth McKeown, Kevin Bankston, Harry Pregerson, H. Thomas Byron, Michael Daly Hawkins, Jonathan Man, Robert Tibbo, José Casado, Roberto Kaz, Julian Borger, Paul Johnson, Nick Hopkins, Julian Assange, Marcel Bosonnet, Wolfgang Kaleck, Ben Wizner, William Bourdon, Gonzalo Boye, Carsten Gericke, David Miranda, Ladar Levison, Marcel Rosenbach, Rainer Staudhammer, Lindsay Mills, Laura Poitras, Barack Obama
• Director: Laura Poitras
• Runtime: 1:53
• Company: Praxis Films, Participant, HBO Documentary Films
• Media Format: Movie