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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.


“The only safe place is on the run.”
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Edward Snowden

Shailene Woodley
Lindsay Mills

Melissa Leo
Laura Poitras

Zachary Quinto
Glenn Greenwald

Tom Wilkinson
Ewen MacAskill

Scott Eastwood
Trevor James

Timothy Olyphant
CIA Agent Geneva

Ben Schnetzer
Gabriel Sol

LaKeith Stanfield
Patrick Haynes

Rhys Ifans
Corbin O'Brian
Snowden is a drama, history, crime, thriller film released in 2016 exploring themes of biography, idealism, idealist, national security agency (nsa), investigative journalism, whistleblower. Directed by Oliver Stone, it stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo. CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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