The parlous state of the Palace of Westminster was laid bare in an unprecedented warts-and-all BBC documentary earlier this year, revealing leaking roofs, crumbling walls and plagues of mice, rats, moths and pigeons.
In the trailer to a fraught, much-delayed documentary about MIA, leaked this summer by its director, Steve Loveridge, we see footage of a younger, lisping Maya talking to a camcorder.
And in further acknowledgement of the need for a debate, the NSA and other agencies have posted declassified files to a new intelligence Tumblr -- revealing for the first time aside from Snowden's leaks documentary evidence of the inner workings of mass surveillance.
3. Before seeing it, I assumed that "Citizenfour," Laura Poitras's documentary about the National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, would be yet another work of earnest cinematic advocacy, preaching to the choir on issues already widely aired in the news media.
The organization, which The Verge reports as relying on government donations for 80-90 percent of its financial backing, kicked off its campaign with a brief profile of Laura Poitras, the filmmaker behind the documentary on the Edward Snowden-NSA leaks and a leading privacy advocate.
The organization, which The Verge reports as relying on government donations for 80-90 percent of its financial backing, kicked off its campaign with a brief profile of Laura Poitras, the filmmaker behind the documentary on the Edward Snowden-NSA leaks and a leading privacy advocate.
Backing up the BBC's promise to bring back more series factual programming to BBC1, the autumn season will also feature One Night in Bhopal, a documentary about the 1984 gas leak from a Union Carbide chemical works that killed thousands in the Indian city.
Even given our preoccupation with leaks now, the documentary doesn't connect those dots to the Obama administration's current effort to investigate leaks of classified information, which includes subpoenaing reporters' phone records and portraying a Fox News reporter as a conspirator to obtain a warrant for his e-mails.
The apartment's interior had been turned into a film studio, where Laura Poitras — the maker of documentaries who, last year, helped Snowden leak documents exposing the fact that the National Security Agency collects huge amounts of data on United States citizens — was in the final days of a three-year project about surveillance in America.
