We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

[A] most compelling documentaries focused directly on the issues of intellectual property rights and definitions of privacy and secrecy in the digital age.

Words on the screen, their power to free you, and also entrap you - if this isn't the internet's deadly blessing, what is?

Having recently released documentaries on clerical abuse, Mario Cuomo, Park Avenue, Lance Armstrong and, now, WikiLeaks, Gibney seems in danger of becoming an actualité machine.

We Steal Secrets is much concerned with conspiracy theories and may well wind up fuelling new ones.

A thorough and decently intentioned work, though it accepts a little too glibly the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger line against Assange: that he is a fascinating radical who simply became a paranoid authoritarian.

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Alex Gibney moves into an elite class of filmmakers with this timely tale of tormented whistleblowers.

We Steal Secrets is a surprisingly even-handed look at a controversy with more than its share of fanatics on both sides.

Comprehensive, eloquent and provocative.

The film has access to some fascinating expert witnesses and commentators.