Snowden (2016)
Real-life whistleblower: Edward Snowden
Case: U.S. National Security Agency's use of illegal mass surveillance programs
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Poll: Favorite Real-Life Whistleblower Movie?
A movie tribute poll saluting those who courageously act to stop illegal acts, corruption, fraud or other types of injustice. According to Wikipedia, a whistleblower movie portrays a person who exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that is either private or public. The information of alleged wrongdoing can be classified in many ways: violations of company policy/rules, law, regulation, or threat to public interest/national security, as well as, outright fraud and corruption.
Which of these movies that tells the story of a real-life whistle blower is your favorite film? *fictionalized real-life whistleblowers have been classified as fictional for poll
Vote in the companion poll: Favorite Fictional Whistleblower Movie?
Make Your Choice
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All the President's Men (1976)
Real-life whistleblower: "Deep Throat", later to be revealed as FBI Deputy Director William Mark Felt Sr.Case: U.S. President Richard "Dick" Nixon's Watergate scandal
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The Post (2017)
Real-life whistleblower: Daniel EllsbergCase: U.S. Department of Defense's Pentagon Papers scandal
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Serpico (1973)
Real-life whistleblower: Frank SerpicoCase: N.Y.C. Police Department police corruption
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The Insider (1999)
Real-life whistleblower: Jeffrey WigandCase: Brown & Williamson's cigarette additives cover-up (carcinogenic/addictive)
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The Report (2019)
Real-life whistleblowers: Daniel J. Jones, lead investigator and other investigative team membersCase: "Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Committee Report of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program," was the largest investigation in U.S. Senate history. It was described by the Los Angeles Times as the "most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations" comprising a review of 6.3 million pages of classified documents.
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The Fifth Estate (2013)
Real-life whistleblowers: Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder and Daniel Berg, OpenLeaks FounderCases: Various Leak websites serve as a whistleblower conduit and are devoted to making their information public
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The Informant! (2009)
Real-life whistleblower: Mark WhitacreCase: Archer Daniels Midland food and commodities price fixing
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Kill the Messenger (2014)
Real-Lifel whistleblower: Coral BacaCase: CIA's supported cocaine trafficking into the USA
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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
Real-life whistleblower: William Mark Felt Sr., aka "Deep Throat"Case: U.S. President Richard "Dick" Nixon's Watergate scandal
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Fair Game (2010)
Real-life whistleblower: Joseph C. WilsonCase: U.S. George W. Bush's misrepresentation of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capability (yellowcake uranium)
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Silkwood (1983)
Real-life whistleblower: Karen SilkwoodCase: Kerr-McGee Corporation's health and safety practices and anti-union backlash at its Cimarron Nuclear Fuel Fabrication Site
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The Whistleblower (2010)
Real-life whistleblower: Larysa KondrackiCase: DynCorp International's United Nations peacekeeper sex trafficking
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Official Secrets (2019)
Real-life whistleblower: Katharine GunCase: U.S. National Security Agency's bugging of United Nations Security Council foreign offices of Angola, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chile, Guinea and Pakistan
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Citizenfour (2014)
Real-life whistleblower: Edward SnowdenCase: U.S. National Security Agency's use of illegal mass surveillance programs
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
Real-life whistleblower: Sherron WatkinsCase: Enron Corporation's financial fraud and accounting practices that led to its bankruptcy and the de facto dissolution of Arthur Andersen, a "Big Five" accounting firm
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We Steal Secrets (2013)
Real-life whistleblower: Julian AssangeCase: Various WikiLeaks, a website devoted to making public information (a whistleblower conduit)
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The Pentagon Papers (2003)
Real-life whistleblower: Daniel EllsbergCase: U.S. Department of Defense's Pentagon Papers scandal
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Erin Brockovich (2000)
Real-life whistleblower: Erin BrockovichCase: Pacific Gas & Electric Hinkley's drinking water contamination
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Breach (2007)
Real-life whistleblower: Eric O'NeillCase: Robert Hanssen's espionage activities
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The Pentagon Wars (1998)
Real-life whistleblower: Lieutenant Colonel James BurtonCase: U.S. Military's Bradley Fighting Vehicle project
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Dark Waters (2019)
Real-life whistleblower: Robert Bilott and Wilbur TennantCase: DuPont knowingly contaminates the public drinking water supply for decades with the toxic chemicals used to make Teflon.
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A Good American (2015)
Real-life whistleblower: William Binney, Kirk Wiebe, Edward Loomis , Diane Roark and Thomas DrakeCase: U.S. NSA's decision to use "Trailblazer", a NSA electronic surveillance program that was a billion-dollar failure over "ThinThread", a less costly in-house program with built-in privacy protections for United States citizens. In a secret 2002 test run, the cheap surveillance tool predicted the attacks on September 11, 2001.
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Chasing Madoff (2010)
Real-life whistleblower: Harry MarkopolosCase: Bernie Madoff's Ponzi investment fraud
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The Great Hack (2019)
Real-life whistleblowers: Brittany Kaiser, Christopher Wylie, and othersCase: Facebook's & Cambridge Analytica's data scandal and related manipulation of political elections through personal data mining, targeted social media, and voter mind control, most notably, the Leave EU Brexit campaign and Donald Trump's 2016 US presidential bid.
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Reality (2023)
Real-life whistleblower: Reality WinnerCase: National Security Agency's unpublicized report that revealed proof of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
Added 01 November 2023
