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Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden

“Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you're risking, what you're bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn't hurt anybody else.”

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    Citizenfour

    CITIZENFOUR

    LAURA POITRAS United States, 2014

    Before earning an Oscar® nomination with All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras won an Academy Award® for Citizenfour. Capturing lightning in a bottle, the documentarian worked with whistleblower Edward Snowden as he exposed the United States’ far-reaching program of mass surveillance.

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