Secrecy

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Sundance Film Festival 2008 - Nominated - Grand Jury Prize

Secrecy

Directors:
Peter Galison , Robb Moss
85 Minutes
 

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Admist the American hunger for instantaneous news and up-to-date "facts," this unflinching film uncovers the vast, invisible world of government secrecy.

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Runtime:
85 min.

Genre:
Documentary

Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Plot Summary

The film is about the vast, invisible world of government secrecy. By filming people from the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, reporters, information seekers, and individuals whose lives have been marked by their encounters with the classification bureaucracy, the film probes secrecy's relationship to fear, executive power and national security.

 

 

 

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  • How Much Secrecy is Too Much?

    This is the first film that Geoffrey Gilmore (Sundance Festival Director) chose for this year’s film festival. It is quite easy to understand why. Secrecy enlightens the viewer as to the history of classification in our government starting with the Manhattan Project, and then shows how it has grown in ... read more