CITIZENFOUR… Documentary on Ed Snowden (coming out 10-24-14)

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http://youtu.be/XiGwAvd5mvM

This looks like quite the riveting documentary. Yes, it is a documentary, apparently, not a “Hollywood-type” take off on the story. [found this at RMN]

Published on Oct 10, 2014

CITIZENFOUR is the never before seen, utterly riveting first-person look at how director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald first met with whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong where he gave them documents showing widespread abuses of power by the National Security Administration. It is an unprecedented fly-on-the-wall account of one of the most groundbreaking moments in recent history.

In January 2013, Poitras (recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Genius Fellowship and co-recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service) was several years into making a film about surveillance in the post-9/11 era when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four,” who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, she and Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The film that resulted from this series of tense encounters is absolutely sui generis [unique] in the history of cinema: a 100% real-life thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes.

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Citizenfour Official Trailer 1 (2014) – Edward Snowden Documentary HD

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