Oliver Stone 's Snowden , with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the title character, is less essential, but helps illuminate the man himself and boasts a solid performance from Gordon-Levitt.
Official Secrets dramatizes a lesser-known at least Stateside but no less vital whistleblower story: That of Katharine Gun played by Keira Knightley. The injustices of the War on Terror hang heavily over the movies this year. A star-studded cast playing a roster of familiar government figures surround Driver, including Annette Bening as Sen. Wonder why. Do themes of speaking truth to power seem especially relevant now? Dark Waters shines a spotlight on Robert Bilott played by Mark Ruffalo , a lawyer who undertook a decades-long battle with DuPont over the company's environmental contamination and cover-up.
It transcends politics and ideologies. Save FB Tweet More. Pinterest Email Send Text Message. Credit: Everett Collection. Continued on next slide. Credit: Everett Collection 2. Official Secrets - Still 1. Credit: Sundance Institute. The Report. Replay gallery. A research chemist and a television producer try to let the public know that tobacco companies had been intentionally making their cigarettes more addictive while the tobacco industry tries to discredit them.
Whistleblower : Two utility employees Case : Hinkley groundwater contamination. Erin Brockovich is a drama that tells the story of a woman who in built a legal case against a major California utility. It had been contaminating a large area with chromium and endangering the health of more than families. Brockovich found out about the wrongdoing from two former utility employees who been told to take over three decades of historical records to the rubbish dump.
These records showed how much the utility had polluted the local drinking water. While an employee of the United States government, Edward Snowden revealed details of classified government surveillance programs used to spy on millions of ordinary people though their own emails, phone calls and webcams. Many consider Edward Snowden a martyr. He lost one kind of life and gained a new less stable one in Moscow without his family.
Nonetheless, doing the right thing shouldn't have cost Snowden so much. His experiences show the need to protect people who blow the whistle with comprehensive and well-enforced legislation. This would shield them from retaliation and maintain their anonymity so that they can make a difference and then go on with their lives as normal.
They exposed how the NYPD targeted vulnerable minority communities, arresting young people on low-level charges, mainly later dismissed. The group's fight led to a class action lawsuit against the department in Following a whistleblower's leak, the owner of the Washington Post and her executive editor risk their freedom and livelihoods to reveal the secret activities of the United States government during the Vietnam War. These included secretly bombing Laos and Cambodia.
Seeing people make the hardest decision of their lives poses the question: what would you do if you had the chance to expose the actions of arguably the most powerful government in the world? Similarly to many whistleblowers, these journalists are living normal lives one day and then everything suddenly changes. While working at a nuclear fuel fabrication site, Karen Silkwood played by Meryl Streep in one of her many whistleblower films finds out that worker safety violations are being covered up.
This tense thriller brings to life the experience of discovering serious wrongdoing and trying to find out more while the company responsible takes drastic measures to keep the truth hidden.
Whistleblower : Mark Whitacre Case : Price-fixing in agriculture. The vice-president of a food processing corporation wears a wire to gather evidence against the company over its price-fixing of lysine, an additive used in the livestock industry.
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