By Morris Dean
After watching The Fifth Estate (2013, directed by Bill Condon, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange), I felt it deserved to be brought to the attention of readers who might not have heard of it. But I felt at a loss as to how I could possibly review it, because I was likely in the same boat as most others, knowing of "WikiLeaks" almost entirely because of PFC Bradley Manning's quickly being identified as the source of the "the largest set of classified documents ever leaked to the public [Wikipedia]," in violation of the Espionage Act and other U.S. laws – but otherwise relatively clueless about whistle-blowing, and about the apparently extensive network of computer-hacking activists intent on rooting out evil and making the world better.
