Secrecy (2008)

Directed by

Robb Moss, Peter Galison

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary explores the world of government secrecy in the United States. It presents interviews with people who work with or around classified information, including former intelligence officers, journalists, and lawyers. The film examines how secrecy operates and the debates it creates.

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What happens

Secrecy is a 2008 documentary film directed by Harvard University professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss. According to its website, it "is a film about the vast, invisible world of government secrecy," and features interviews with a variety of people on all sides of the secrecy issue, including Steven Aftergood (of Federation of American Scientists), Tom Blanton (of the National Security Archive), James B. Bruce (who was a senior staff member to the Iraq Intelligence Commission), Barton Gellman (a Washington Post journalist), Melissa Boyle Mahle (a former CIA officer), the plaintiffs in United States v. Reynolds (1953) (the case which established the State Secrets Privilege in the United States), Siegfried Hecker (former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory), Mike Levin (a former member of the National Security Agency), and Neal Katyal and Charles Swift (the lawyers for the defendant in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld). The film competed in the Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and at the Berlin Film Festival, among many other venues. The film was the winner of the Special Jury Award for Documentary Features at the Independent Film Festival, Boston, and was named Best Documentary at the Newport International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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