Risk
2016 · Movie · NR · 91 min · ★ 6.6 · 77% critics
With rare access to a controversial public figure and his team, this documentary follows a filmmaker as she navigates competing agendas and shifting loyalties. As events unfold, it becomes a tense portrait of power, truth, and the personal costs of pursuing transparency.
Also known as Asylum
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Details
- Years
- 2016
- Release date
- 2017-05-05
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Critic score
- 77/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (76 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like investigative documentaries about scandal, power, and messy ethics, such as Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal or Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet; Not for you if you want clear heroes and easy answers.
Pros: rare behind-the-scenes access; timely real-world stakes; tense ethical questions | Cons: dense political context; limited opposing voices; uncomfortable moral ambiguity
Themes
- asylum
- national security agency (nsa)
- information leak
- investigative journalism
- semi-biographical
- fake news
- surveillance state
- observational documentary
- julian assange
- immersive
- mass surveillance
- crime documentary
- +2 more
Cast & crew
Julian Assange
as Self
Sarah Harrison
as Self
- JA
Jacob Appelbaum
as Self
- JF
Joseph Farrell
as Self
- RA
Renata Avila
as Self - Lawyer
Jennifer Robinson
as Self - Lawyer
- EC
Erinn Clark
as Self - Tor Project developer
Laura Poitras
as Self (voice)
- AA
Ana Alban
as Self - Ecuadorian ambassador
- CA
Christine Assange
as Self - Julian's mother
Directed by Laura Poitras