Director: Bill Condon

Writer: Josh Singer

Based on a book: WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by David Leigh, and Luke Harding

Keywords: Thriller

Political thriller dramatizes the real-life events behind the start and rise to notoriety of state-secret clearinghouse WikiLeaks.

ABSTRACT
Adapted from tell-all books WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange and the World's Most Dangerous Website and WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, The Fifth Estate provides viewers with a dramatized account of the founding of infamous secret-sharing resource WikiLeaks, following Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg as they design a platform for whistle-blowers, attract a wide variety of interested parties willing to share information, and ultimately come to realize that the secrets they possess may forever shift the paradigm of global diplomacy.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Moritz Bleibtreu	Actor	13-Aug-1971		Run Lola Run
Daniel Brühl	Actor	16-Jun-1978		Inglourious Basterds
Peter Capaldi	Actor	14-Apr-1958		12th Doctor on Doctor Who
Benedict Cumberbatch	Actor	19-Jul-1976		BBC's Sherlock Holmes
Laura Linney	Actor	5-Feb-1964		Meryl in The Truman Show
Anthony Mackie	Actor	23-Sep-1979		The Manchurian Candidate
Alexander Siddig	Actor	21-Nov-1965		Dr. Julian Bashir on DS9
Dan Stevens	Actor	10-Oct-1982		Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey
David Thewlis	Actor	20-Mar-1963		Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Stanley Tucci	Actor	11-Jan-1960		Joe Gould's Secret
Alicia Vikander	Actor	3-Oct-1988		Ex Machina

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