'We Steal Secrets: The Story Of WikiLeaks' Trailer: Truth And Secrets

Information may be the most valuable commodity on Earth, especially when it pertains to the inner workings and policies of major governments. Julian Assange drew the ire of countless officials in governments across the globe when he published state and military secrets through his online portal WikiLeaks.

Documentarian Alex Gibney (Freakonomics, Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) trained his camera on Assange and the furor surrounding WikiLeaks and the reveal of US military documents and videos, taken from classified servers and provided to Assange by Pfc. Bradley Manning. The resulting film, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, premiered at Sundance and opens this spring; now you can see a trailer that outlines both Assange's general ideology and the media frenzy and government concern that surrounded WikiLeaks' rise to prominence.

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks opens on May 24th. (There is another Assange movie coming this year: Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate, with Benedict Cumberbatch playing a dramatized version of the WikiLeaks founder.)

Filmed with the startling immediacy of unfolding history, Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney's We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is a riveting, multi-layered tale about transparency in the information age and our ever-elusive search for the truth. Detailing the creation of Julian Assange's controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history, the film charts the enigmatic Assange's rise and fall in parallel with that of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the brilliant, troubled young soldier who downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents from classified U.S. military and diplomatic servers.