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3	''The Fifth Estate'' is a movie directed by Creator/BillCondon about the founding of the controversial website Wikileaks. It stars Creator/BenedictCumberbatch as Julian Assange and Creator/DanielBruhl as his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (and is based on Domscheit-Berg's book ''Inside [=WikiLeaks=]: My Time with Julian Assange and the World's Most Dangerous Website''). It also stars Creator/CariceVanHouten, Creator/DavidThewlis, Creator/StanleyTucci, Creator/LauraLinney, Creator/AnthonyMackie, Creator/AliciaVikander, Creator/DanStevens, Creator/PeterCapaldi and Creator/AlexanderSiddig.
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5	The film was released on October 18, 2013 in the States. The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZT1wb8_tcYU here]].
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7	For six years, this was Creator/{{Disney}}'s last R-rated release. The break ended with ''Film/{{Stuber}}''.
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9	Not to be confused with the long-running Creator/{{CBC}} newsmagazine series.
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12	!!Tropes associated with this film include:
13	* AdaptationTitleChange: The movie was changed from the novels' original title ''Inside [=WikiLeaks=]: My Time with Julian Assange and the World's Most Dangerous Website'' to make it more marketable to moviegoing audiences.
14	* IntrepidReporter: Nick Davies. TruthInTelevision.
15	* KickTheDog: It wasn't enough for Julian to suspend Daniel from service, he also had to spread rumors of Daniel having schizophrenia or that Daniel and his girlfriend Anke were government agents.
16	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: What's that, Julian? They're making a [=WikiLeaks=] movie? When's it coming -- oh.
17	* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Fed up with Julian's dishonesty, Daniel and the original Wikileaks team resign, delete the site and block Julian's access to the server.
18	* MoralityChain: Daniel's girlfriend, Anke, is this to Daniel. Meanwhile, Daniel ''attempts'' to be this for Julian.
19	* PetTheDog: Despite the film arguably portraying Julian Assange as the villain (at least in scenes during the [[DrivenToVillainy latter half of the movie]]), he does have occasional sympathetic moments, one subtle example being when he notices a young boy watching his outburst against [[BerserkButton Domscheit-Berg's "disloyal" behavior]] on the plane, seemingly considering that he is being a bad rolemodel for the child and ceasing his rant.
20	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Fed up with Julian's dishonesty, Daniel and the original Wikileaks team resign, delete the site and block Julian's access to the server.
21	* ShownTheirWork:
22	** The scene of Assange dancing in an Iceland club actually happened, with the same moves. In the real life video, a man can be seen in the spot at the bar where Berg sits in the film.
23	** As the real-life Alan Rusbridger pointed out in his review of the film, the leather jacket David Thewlis's Nick Davies always wears is spot-on.
24	* SidelongGlanceBiopic
25	* TitleDrop: After Nick Davies tells Daniel about how the modern fourth estate was born, he dubs Wikileaks as part of the fifth estate.

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