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Citizenfour An Oscar-winning, eye-opening, ire-inducing, educational, cinéma vérité style, 114-minute, 2014 Laura Poitras documentary, which follows The Oath and Flag Wars in her trilogy about America post 9/11, in which 29-year-old whistleblower Edward Snowden, who was a defense contractor analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA), worked primarily with investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian journalist Ewen MacAskill to give them an in-depth interview over an 8-day period in Hong Kong to divulge to the American public that the NSA has been using illegal covert surveillance techniques, software programs., and wiretapping to capture and store myriad types of communication that users generated through companies such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Corporation, and Apple as they use email, cellphones, metro cards, debit cards, and so on; the U.S. charged Edward Snowden with three felonies under the Espionage Act, which forced him to take political asylum in Russia.   Redhead: Year: 2015 Rating:  R View Citizenfour on the Internet Movie Database