Citizenfour

Synopsis: In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone identifying himself as "citizen four", who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programmes run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2015
Year of production: 2014
Notes: Available in the UK and Ireland only.
Subjects: Social Studies; Media studies
Keywords: civil rights; espionage; surveillance; United States of America; whistle-blowing; Snowden, Edward

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