Snowden (film)

Snowden is a 2016 film about the NSA's illegal surveillance techniques that are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.

Directed by Oliver Stone. Written by Kieran Fitzgerald and Oliver Stone, based on The Snowden Files by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena.

One nation under surveillance for liberty and justice for all.  (taglines)

Edward Snowden

• Terrorism is just an excuse.

Corbin O'Brian

• The modern battlefield is everywhere.

Taglines

• One nation under surveillance for liberty and justice for all.
• The only safe place is on the run.

About

• It's a very strange thing to do [a story about] an American man, and not be able to finance this movie in America. And that's very disturbing, if you think about its implications on any subject that is not overtly pro-American. They say we have freedom of expression; but thought is financed, and thought is controlled, and the media is controlled. This country is very tight on that, and there’s no criticism allowed at a certain level. You can make movies about civil rights leaders who are dead, but it’s not easy to make one about a current man.
  • Oliver Stone, Oliver Stone Reveals Clandestine Meetings With Edward Snowden, NSA Worries (March 8, 2016)

Cast

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Edward Snowden
• Shailene Woodley — Lindsay Mills
• Melissa Leo — Laura Poitras
• Zachary Quinto — Glenn Greenwald
• Tom Wilkinson — Ewen MacAskill
• Scott Eastwood — Trevor James
• Logan Marshall-Green — Male Drone Pilot
• Timothy Olyphant — CIA Agent Geneva
• Ben Schnetzer — Gabriel Sol
• LaKeith Lee Stanfield — Patrick Haynes
• Rhys Ifans — Corbin O’Brian
• Nicolas Cage — Hank Forrester
• Joely Richardson — Janine Gibson
• Edward Snowden — himself
• Robert Firth — Dr. Stillwell

External links

• Snowden quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Snowden at Rotten Tomatoes
• Official website