Biased Documentary is Biased.

It's very hard to review this because, there's too many parties involved, so let's start with why this doc was bashed by Wikileaks supporters:
Prior to the official release of this doc, wikileaks website published a statement bashing the documentary title, the title "We Steal Secrets" isn't directed to wikileaks, it's a direct statement made by former CIA/NSA director Michael Hayden in relation to the activities of US government spies, so you can't get that until you watch the documentary, but even after watching the documentary, the title still misleading, because it's a quote from a former CIA/NSA director followed by "the story of wikileaks", which implies that wikileaks steal secrets, so the title is whoring for attention, pretty much like what tabloids are doing and that's flaw no.1.

Flaw no.2 is a major portion being that the director Alex Gibney, never interviewed Julian Assange, so how can you conduct an entire documentary about a person without that person having a say in this, you can't relay on stock footage and allegations and rumors to discredit a person, you have to interview him to get the truth, and people are saying that "in his defense, he did try to interview Assange, but Assange wanted a million dollars for the interview", well, i'm gonna go out of the limb here and say that this whole documentary shouldn't exist if the director couldn't interview Assange, the director should have gathered information, did the research and then interviewed Assange, and THEN make the documentary, instead, the director tried to get that interview right before the documentary ended.

Many shocking things about this documentary that i can't mention all, but what bothered me the most was the fact that after the sexual assault allegations against Assange, one of the quote from an interview was that Assange was intentionally trying to make children with every girl he sleeps with, and that's basically his ideology of applying what he thinks in the digital world to what he thinks in real life, THAT'S completely ridiculous, offensive and stupid, also they bashed on him so much, trying to show him as an insecure and paranoid person, and the documentary officially stated at the end that Wikileaks is dead and the same person who created the website have now destroyed it, when in reality, a simple research into Wikipedia will show you that wikileaks released 5 millions phone calls and other information on the torture of detainees in Guantanamo prison, so wikileaks isn't dead at all.

To me, this whole professional editing and soundtracks doesn't cover the fact that this whole documentary is completely manipulative and wrong on so many levels, and even if it wasn't then you can't make a documentary about a person without that person official statement, (unless he's dead), Ironically, this documentary made fun of media outlets being manipulative and then followed along the same track.

5/10