TY - ADVS AU - Poitras,Laura ED - Praxis Films ED - Participant Media ED - HBO Documentary Films ED - Bertha Foundation ED - Channel Four Films (Firm) ED - BRITDOC Foundation TI - Citizenfour PY - 2015/// CY - [U.K.] PB - Dogwoof KW - Snowden, Edward J., KW - Leaks (Disclosure of information) KW - United States KW - Electronic surveillance KW - Espionage, American KW - National Security Agency N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 2014; Special features: 3 extras scenes: Hong Kong Day One: Inside the CIA ; Hong Kong Day One: Taking Action ; Three weeks after Hong Kong -- 2 short films: Death of a prisoner / dir. Laura Poitras, 2013, 9 min. ; The program / dir. Laura Poitras, 2012, 8 min; BBFC rating: 15 yeras and over N2 - Citizenfour is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalists Ewen MacAskill and Glenn Greenwald's encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA) ER -