The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate is an American-British-Belgian 2013 thriller movie about the news-leaking website WikiLeaks starring Benedict Cumberbatch, presented on DVD.
Through the eyes of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, an early supporter and eventual colleague of Julian Assange, the story follows the heady, early days of Wikileaks to its abrupt end after a series of controversial and history changing info leaks.
The websites overnight success brought instant fame to its principal architects, but as their power expanded across the globe, Daniel grew increasingly disillusioned with Julian's questionable tactics and ethics. The rift between the two friends became irreparable and their ideological differences tore them apart, but not before they revolutionized, for better and worse, the flow of information to news media and the world at large.
Critic Reviews:
- " Daniel Bruhl was highly watchable as Assange's second in command, and all these interesting people grappled with compelling questions about what their rights and responsibilities were towards the information they were handed. " – Asia Frey
- " There are real treasures to be had here, the most prestigious of which is an effortless turn from Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange. " – J. Olson
- " As nervy and as excitable as the trade that it depicts. " – Anthony Lane