Citizenfour

About Citizenfour

In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.

Laura Poitras's Citizenfour is a 2014 documentary film. The film is filed under observational documentary, investigative journalism, whistleblower, and national security agency (nsa).

Edward Snowden stars as Self, Glenn Greenwald as Self, Laura Poitras as Self, and William Binney as Self. Released in October 2014, it runs 113 minutes.

The screenplay is by Laura Poitras. It was produced by Channel 4 Television and HBO Documentary Films. In the United States it streams on Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel.

Snowden, Risk, and Winner make useful companions to Citizenfour, all filed under biography and mass surveillance. TMDB voters put it at 7.7 out of 10 across 1,458 votes and it carries a R rating.