Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- biography
- national security agency (nsa)
- woman director
- investigative journalism
- whistleblower
- surveillance state
- observational documentary
- mass surveillance
- fbi surveillance
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Barack Obama — Self
- Jacob Appelbaum — Self
- Julian Assange — Self
- Jeremy Scahill — Self
- Kevin Bankston — Self
- Ewen MacAskill — Self
- Lindsay Mills — Self
- Directed
- Laura Poitras
- Written
- Laura Poitras
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 1,442 ratings
- Studio
- Participant, HBO Documentary Films, The Bertha Foundation, BR, NDR, Praxis Films Berlin
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
