The Fifth Estate: watch an exclusive clip of the Wikileaks movie - video

The Fifth Estate, Bill Condon's drama about the ascent of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange's collaboration with newspapers such as The Guardian and the New York Times, opens in the UK today. In this clip, Assange and his team begin to feel negative ramifications from their actions, and blowback from their own media coverage

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