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United States of Secrets (Part One): The Program (2014)

Directed by Michael Kirk

Overview

Last year Edward Snowden downloaded tens of thousands of top-secret documents from a highly secure government computer network. The revelations that followed touched off a fierce debate over the massive surveillance operations conducted by the National Security Agency.  Through exclusive interviews with intelligence insiders, cabinet officials, and government whistle-blowers, the film reveals how the U.S. government came to monitor the communications of millions of Americans and to collect billions of records on ordinary people around the world.

Length 114 minutes

Actors

Glenn Greenwald | Will Lyman | Michael Hayden