Citizenfour Documentary

Edward Snowden is a whistleblower from the 21st century. Snowden was a man who had outstanding IT skills and eventually landed a job at the NSA. He gained access to numerous files that showed the crimes the NSA was committing against its own people and against other countries as well. They were spying on people’s privacy and claimed that it was for the national security that would benefit all people. Snowden said that he could not let this

Citizenfour is a documentary in which Laura Poitras starts receiving strange anonymous e-mails from a man that called himself by the name of "CitizenFour," that’s why the documentary is named that way. This anonymous guy said that he had evidence of illegal monitoring programs held by the NSA, CIA, GCHQ and many others agencies working worldwide. Months later after that, she and 2 guys named Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill (which are reporters) fly all the way to Hong Kong in order to meet with this anonymous citizenfour man. When they got there, they found out that the man turned out to be Edward Snowden. Throughout the rest of the film, Edward or “citizenfour” starts to reveal all the shocking information he has. This film not only brings to

On May 20 2013, Snowden had traveled to Hong Kong to meet with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, journalists for The Guardian, in order to turn over NSA documents revealing various U.S. surveillance programs and tactics that are used on their citizens and on citizens in other countries. Snowden had also given

Virunga was a documentary that was created in 2014 to bring to people’s attention the problems that were occurring in Virunga. It was directed by Orlando Von Einsiedel and it took place in Virunga National Park, East Congo. The movie showed how people were were being selfish and greedy with the resources in virunga for example, at the beginning of the movie it said people would kill the parents and sell the babies. A major problem that the movie showed was a civil war in virunga. This was very devastating especially since they had worked to protect this area. Then the next big problem was that a British company called Soco International started to look for oil in the UNESCO Heritage in the spring. Between civil war, poaching and people digging

After watching 13th it didn't make me upset at all, it made me very sorrowful, to see some of the things that African Americans had to go through. I wonder how it would feel to be kidnapped and brought to another country, to be enslaved and then freed to only be, enslaved in a different way. Know that I have watched this documentary it oped my eyes on why things are how they are know. Everything that they said in the documentary was linked together one way or another, it’s like putting together a puzzle with a lot of pieces. One thing that really stuck with me from the documentary was when they were saying that, a lot of the african american leaders around the 1960 were either killed, imprisoned or fled the country and that's why there is not a lot of African American civil right leaders, because maybe people seen what happened to the civil right activist and didn't want the same thing to happen to them. After all I don’t blame them I would want to play it safe to. On the other hand I don’t feel

On June 6, 2013, The Guardian published a story about the National Security Agency's (NSA) secret Internet surveillance program, PRISM (Greenwald and MacAskill 2013). The story was based on documents leaked by one of the most successful whistle-blowers in American history, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The documents that Snowden has released up to this time have shown the NSA to be heavily engaged in the collection of personal Internet activity, bulk collection of telephone "metadata," and other forms of surveillance that have brought U.S. intelligence practices into question.

After reading the article, "Why Edward Snowden is a Hero," by John Cassidy, it brings a new

For the most part, Snowden is shot from a close-up angle, showing his face and shoulders. In that context, Poitras deliberately chooses that angle, in order to show Snowden’s facial expressions and emotions. By seeing his true reactions to questions and comments, his emotions while he speaks about the surveillance, we get a glimpse of who Snowden really is and what are his intentions. As a result, the movie is effective in its purpose to reveal the truth about him, the nation’s “hero” and “traitor” and let us judge him accordingly, after seeing his perspective of the

Snowden was a former CIA technical assistant, and more recently worked for the NSA as a defense contractor at Booz Allen Hamilton (Rowen, 2014). Because this company had a contract with the NSA there was always secrets flowing into this business 24/7. In June 2013 Mr. Snowden meet with two journalists at Hong Kong to talk about the information he had on the NSA. What these classified

Edward Snowden was a man who worked for the NSA and exposed all of the information that the NSA was accessing from U.S. citizens and those people around the world. Through his actions Snowden did break the law, “He has been charged with theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence” (BBC News). Even though Snowden knew he would be charged for his actions, he still wanted to do the right thing and expose to the people what the NSA was doing. Snowden was looking at the information that was being collected and realized it was not necessary to keep Americans safe. Instead, collecting this information was abruptly digging into their lives and going against their rights as human beings. When this information was exposed, the citizens wanted the government and the NSA to ultimately change what exactly they were accessing and how they were accessing it. This event that Snowden

Greenwald, G. (2015). No place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the surveillance state.

Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (N.S.A) subcontractor turned whistle-blower is nothing short of a hero. His controversial decision to release information detailing the highly illegal ‘data mining’ practices of the N.S.A have caused shockwaves throughout the world and have raised important questions concerning how much the government actually monitors its people without their consent or knowledge. Comparable to Mark Felt in the Watergate scandals, Daniel Ellsberg with the Pentagon Papers, Edward Snowden joins the rank of infamous whistleblowers who gave up their jobs, livelihood, and forever will live under scrutiny of the public all in the service to the American people. Edward Snowden released information detailing the

In 2011, he was awarded Ridenhour Prize for TruthTelling and was co-recipient of Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award. As we progress into this paper, we will discuss various stages of this crime such as what were his actions in NSA, NSA inquiry and acknowledgement, Inevitable Whistleblowing, FBI raids, Indictment, Court proceedings, Government arguments, final disposition, what happened since 2012. In this paper we will also discuss the Espionage act and Whistleblowing, what is a part of the McCarran Internal Security Act and what was the Nation Defense information, classified information which was mishandled by Thomas Andrew Drake.

The documentary, The Good Fight, captures the many struggles and sacrifices James Farmer faced during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Through first hand accounts, pictures, and documents, this film brings James Farmer to life portraying him as a selfless, committed, and collaborative leader dedicated to the movement. James Farmer experienced segregation from a young age and knew at that point that he must actively do something to put an end to it. He strongly believed in changing something that is wrong rather than just passively accommodating to the world.