Wikileaks: War, Lies and Videotape (2011)

Directors: Luc Hermann, Paul Moreira
Writers: Luc Hermann, Paul Moreira
Cast: Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg & more
Release Date: January 2011 (USA)
User Rating: 8,8/10

Review: "Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, you’ve undoubtedly heard the word ‘‘WikiLeaks’’ and depending on your leanings, you’ve probably already decided if the website that releases classified government documents and its founder Julian Assange are dangerously imperilling the free world or invaluable in the fight to keep governments honest.
What just may change your opinion however is this documentary tracing the origins of the site, what it and the people behind it set out to do and how it may well be Assange’s ego that’s at fault here, not his intent. There’s interviews with those who were there at the start and reams of documentation about the good WikiLeaks has done as well as a measured look at why the American politicians were so annoyed when they suddenly found thousands of their secrets online.

Most telling however are the chats with Assange’s former partner in online publishing, Daniel Domscheit-Berg. More than anyone else, he’s qualified to say what went wrong and how his dream has become such a nightmare. And wow, does he have a lot to say. It’s a good thing Assange is already fighting multiple legal battles for his own freedom because chances are if he wasn’t he’d be dragging Domscheit-Berg off to court for slander right about now."
Written by Scott Ellis (theage.com.au)