Films · Tag
whistleblowing
3 films tagged with “whistleblowing”
documentary · 2014
Citizenfour
Laura Poitras
The film opens with text on a black screen and a voice reading it: instructions for staying alive. Assume that your adversary is capable of a trillion guesses per second. Use a machine that has never touched the network.…
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film · 1999
The Insider
Michael Mann
The question at the centre of The Insider is not whether Jeffrey Wigand should speak. He has data showing that Brown & Williamson manipulated nicotine delivery while its executives testified to Congress, under oath, that…
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film · 1983
Silkwood
Mike Nichols
Nichols and his screenwriters — Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen — make a choice in the first act that governs everything that follows: they show you the work. Not the scandal, not the conspiracy, not the investigation. The w…
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