Citizenfour

Citizenfour is a documentary film that follows the story of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked classified information about the US government's mass surveillance programs. The film begins with Snowden's initial contact with documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who was working on a film about surveillance in the post-9/11 era. Snowden, who uses the pseudonym "Citizenfour," offers to provide Poitras with evidence of illegal wiretapping practices by the US National Security Agency (NSA). The film follows Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald as they travel to Hong Kong to meet with Snowden, who reveals his true identity as Edward Snowden. The film captures their tense and secretive meetings in a hotel room, where Snowden explains his motivations for leaking the classified information and discusses the risks he faces. As media outlets discover Snowden's location, he becomes trapped in Hong Kong and eventually seeks refugee status with the United Nations. The US government requests his extradition, but Snowden manages to leave Hong Kong and is granted temporary asylum in Russia. The film follows Greenwald and Poitras as they continue to report on NSA programs and interview Snowden remotely from Russia. The film closes with Greenwald and Snowden discussing new details about US intelligence programs while taking extreme precautions to protect their communication from surveillance. Citizenfour provides an inside look at one of the most significant political events of our time while exploring themes of privacy, freedom of speech, and government accountability.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Citizenfour include On Putin's Blacklist, Three Identical Strangers, Weiner, Citizen K, Blackfish, Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution.

Citizenfour was released in theaters on October 10, 2014.