Benedict Cumberbatch

Daniel Brühl

Anthony Mackie

David Thewlis

Alicia Vikander

Stanley Tucci

English

English [Audio Description]

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Bill Condon

Steve Golin

Michael Sugar

Based on true events, it’s a fast-paced thriller filled with intrigue.

Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, “The Fifth Estate” reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization. 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 whistleblowers 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?

Based on true events, this fast-paced, global thriller takes you behind the shocking headlines. The Fifth Estate reveals a rebel journalist’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) quest to expose fraud and corruption to the widest audience possible:  the internet.

The Fifth Estate

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