Reporting from NEW YORK — The story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been as compelling and Shakespearean as any in modern media.‎ But the tale of the person making a documentary about him — by ...

Four lawyers for the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks issued a joint statement May 17 strongly censuring Laura Poitras’ Risk, the documentary about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, which opened May 5 ...

If Laura Poitras’s documentary about Julian Assange, “Risk,” does anything, it shows how blasé it can look to disrupt the world these days. A portrait in catered seclusion as both legal necessity and ...

Near the beginning of Risk, Laura Poitras’s new documentary about Julian Assange, we’re shown a bizarre, bird’s-eye view of the WikiLeaks founder as he exits a London courtroom. He had just attended a ...

Laura Poitras’s new documentary, Risk, has all the conspiracy and paranoia you could wish for – much of it behind the camera as well as on screen. The latest film from this Oscar-winning filmmaker, ...

An April 24 screening was canceled so Poitras could update her doc, following a statement from U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions that prosecuting Assange is a "priority." Earlier this week, Tim ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Filmed over six years, the movie tells the story of Assange and WikiLeaks, the controversial organization he founded to publish ...

Laura Poitras first made a supportive documentary of Assange and Wikileaks, but then they had a falling out. The new version is dramatically new and better work. Unleashing government documents from a ...

Laura Poitras’ “Risk” is hardly the first feature film to take on Julian Assange, the elfin WikiLeaks mastermind who has spent the past decade exposing powerful secrets and cultivating his notoriety ...