The Trust Fall: Julian Assange

Jan 25, 2024

2h 8m

★ 10.0

Overview

Examining the meaning and significance of the insights that WikiLeaks shared with the world, the resulting behaviour of the governments involved, the extraordinary personal risk taken by Assange, and the wider fundamental issues around press freedom that affect all of us and our right to know.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Films For Change

The Trust Fall: Julian Assange Trailers

Cast

Self - Narrator

Susan Sarandon

Self - Narrator

Tom Morello

Self - Narrator

M.I.A.

Self - Narrator

Jonathan Oldham

Self

John Pilger

Self

Stella Assange

Self

Jill Stein

Self

Chris Hedges

Self

Daniel Ellsberg

Self

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Sigurdur Thordarson, known as Siggi, becomes a hacker at 12, exposing Icelandic bank corruption at 14. Branded the "teenage whistleblower," he joins WikiLeaks in 2010, mentored by Julian Assange. Siggi leaks globally, but clashes with Assange, prompting him to spy for the FBI at 18. This tale weaves paranoia, hacking, and friendship, portraying Siggi's turbulent journey from trust to betrayal, revealing a heart-wrenching coming-of-age narrative.

8.3

Ithaka

Apr 21, 2022

The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son. Arguably the world’s most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a figure pretty much everybody has an opinion about; perhaps more importantly, he serves as the emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption and unpunished war crimes. For his family members who face the prospect of losing him forever to the abyss of the US justice system, however, this David-and-Goliath struggle is personal – and, with his health declining in a British maximum-security prison and American government prosecutors pulling out all the stops to extradite him, the clock is ticking.

0.0

Eyewar

Oct 15, 2013

What threads of history bind Manhattan's Ground Zero to those of Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Or connect sight to truth, games to war, or the silkworm to the drone? What does the United States hold to be the role of science in warfare? How has war historically been waged in Buddhist traditions? These are some of the topics addressed in Eyewar: 80 minutes of found footage which traces the development of the digital image from the maps of the second century to the screens of the twenty-first, and the uses of the field of cybernetics from Japan in the 1940s to Chile in the 1970s and Iraq in the 1990s.

6.0

Der Fall Assange: Eine Chronik

May 31, 2021

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10.0

Wikileaks – USA against Julian Assange

Sep 7, 2020

The film tells the story of the rise and fall of Julian Assange. Once a celebrated publicist and over the years decried as an eccentric, spy and rapist. The documentary shows a differentiated picture of Julian Assange and Wikileaks. For the first time in German television Assange’s fiancée gives an interview. Further interviews, amongst others, with former CIA-director Leon Panetta, Edward Snowden and John Shipton.

6.0

Hacking Justice

May 20, 2017

Since he took on the case in 2012, defending Julian Assange has put judge Baltasar Garzón's talent and ability to the test. They've won a few battles, but nobody knows how the war will end.

8.0

Julian Assange: The Price of Truth

Jan 15, 2021

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6.6

Risk

May 5, 2017

Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth and sacrifice.

9.0

Julian Assange : l’homme à faire taire

Oct 28, 2025

In the spring of 2010, Julian Assange published classified documents that shed a harsh light on the war crimes committed by the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq.

6.0

Damage

Nov 4, 2022

Ali is not a citizen. He drives a taxi using another man’s license and relies on the GPS to negotiate his way around a city he doesn’t know. His passenger, Esther is an old woman who can’t remember where she is going. She is angry because she has been stripped of everything that is familiar to her and she doesn't recognise the world anymore. They travel through the night in search of a vague destination while surveillance cameras mark their journey, coldly omitting the human element, defining who belongs and who does not, who is safe and who is not. What they have in common is their damage – she can’t remember and he can’t forget.

6.8

Julian

Jan 9, 2012

In school, 9-year old Julian gets into trouble for squealing a bully and therefore disturbing class.

0.0

Tales From The Tube

Jan 1, 1975

A Spectacular Surf Odyssey

8.0

Code Name Lucy: Spies Against Nazis

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The greatest secret of the Second World War has remained a mystery for the last 80 years: a Jewish Communist, Sandor Rado, led a spy network that proved essential to the victory of Allied Forces. Rado received details of strictly confidential strategies from the highest echelons of the Nazi State through Rudolf Roessler, a dedicated anti-Nazi he'd only known as code name "Lucy." Aided by key German industry leaders, Roessler transmitted timely information from high-ranking collaborators within the German army headquarters. Despite their achievement, Rado, Roessler and their sources remained unacknowledged heroes until today. Thanks to the recent declassification of secret archives, we are now able to step behind the scenes of this incredible story.

8.2

Silverback

Jan 7, 2024

Feature-length documentary following award-winning wildlife cameraman Vianet Djenguet as he documents a gruelling but vital mission to ‘habituate’ a notoriously protective 450lb silverback, in a last-ditch effort to save the critically endangered eastern lowland gorillas from extinction.

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0.0

When Presenters Go Horribly Wrong

Jan 7, 2024

Jan Leeming narrates a collection of on-air disasters involving TV presenters, from live gaffes and wardrobe malfunctions to slip-ups, pratfalls and even flying fists.

0.0

Poesia che mi guardi

Nov 20, 2009

No overview available.

0.0

Notes on the Death of A Cinema

Jan 27, 2024

A personal tribute to the liturgy of cinema, to its ghosts and its dreams.

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0.0

Das Haus hinter dem Kupfergraben

Dec 31, 1988

The documentary portrays the art historian Wilhelm von Bode as a realistic visionary.

0.0

Museum für Deutsche Geschichte. Einblicke und Begegnungen

Jan 1, 1988

In 1952, the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) decides to establish a "Museum of German History" (MfDG) in the Zeughaus Unter den Linden. As the central history museum of the GDR, it is committed to the Marxist-Leninist conception of history. The film Museum of German History. Insights and Encounters - a GDR television documentary from 1988 - shows the reconstruction of the war-damaged building, presents selected eras such as the Peasants' Wars and the Revolution of 1848 and observes the preparations for a special exhibition on "Artists in the Class Struggle". The film also provides insights into the restorers' workshops, the coin collection and the painting depot.

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0.0

Dalibor Janda – oheň, voda, vítr

Jan 6, 2024

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