We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013) is Alex Gibney's documentary, free to watch online on iFILM. It traces how a single website rattled the way governments guard their secrets.

Two people sit at its core. Julian Assange, the Australian who built a drop box for anonymous leaks, and US Army private Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning, who funneled hundreds of thousands of cables and the Baghdad airstrike footage to the site. Gibney digs past the headlines, reconstructing Manning's chat logs with hacker Adrian Lamo — the man who turned her in — and watching an idealist curdle into a defendant.

Cablegate, Collateral Murder, the flight into Ecuador's embassy: it all tightens into a single thread. The director, who took home an Oscar for Taxi to the Dark Side, refuses to hand out hero and villain badges, leaving you with the uncomfortable math of total transparency. Two hours and ten minutes for viewers who'd rather understand than pick a side. Stream We Steal Secrets (2013) online on iFILM.