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The Fifth Estate is a 2013 biographical thriller film directed by Bill Condon about the news-leaking website WikiLeaks. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as its editor-in-chief and founder Julian Assange and Daniel Brühl as its former spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg.
The Fifth Estate: Directed by Bill Condon. With Peter Capaldi, David Thewlis, Anatole Taubman, Alexander Beyer. A dramatic thriller based on real events that 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.
- Bill Condon
- 3 min
The use of "fifth estate" dates to the 1960s counterculture, and in particular the influential The Fifth Estate, an underground newspaper first published in Detroit in 1965. Web-based technologies have enhanced the scope and power of the Fifth Estate far beyond the modest and boutique conditions of its beginnings.
Oct 15, 2013 · The Fifth Estate opens in US theaters this Friday, October 18th. There was a stretch in the mid-1990s when Hollywood suddenly wised up to the fact that the internet was here to stay, and...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and a colleague, Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl), join forces to become watchdogs over actions of the privileged and powerful.
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- Bill Condon
- R
- Benedict Cumberbatch
Oct 18, 2013 · 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&aci... Read More
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Oct 18, 2013 · Release Date: October 18, 2013. The Fifth Estate. Those who aim to keep governments, clergy, the media, the elite and the common man in check, recently defined as whistleblowers, watchdogs, citizen journalists...and WikiLeaks.
