Risk

About Risk

Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth and sacrifice.

Risk is a 2017 crime documentary film directed by Laura Poitras. Julian Assange stars as Self, Sarah Harrison as Self, Jacob Appelbaum as Self, and Joseph Farrell as Self.

Released in May 2017, it runs 91 minutes.

Members will find observational documentary, investigative journalism, asylum, and semi-biographical in it. In the United States it streams on fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, and Paramount Plus Premium. It scores 6.6 out of 10 from 80 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.

Citizenfour, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, and Snowden make useful companions to Risk, all filed under FBI surveillance and mass surveillance.