The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son. Arguably the world’s most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a figure pretty much everybody has an opinion about; perhaps more importantly, he serves as the emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption and unpunished war crimes. For his family members who face the prospect of losing him forever to the abyss of the US justice system, however, this David-and-Goliath struggle is personal – and, with his health declining in a British maximum-security prison and American government prosecutors pulling out all the stops to extradite him, the clock is ticking.
John Shipton
as self
Julian Assange
as Self (archive footage)
Donald Trump
as Self (archive footage)
Theresa May
as Self (archive footage)
Daniel Ellsberg
as Self (archive footage)
Boris Johnson
as Self (archive footage)
Edward Snowden
as Self (archive footage)
Joe Rogan
as Self (archive footage)
Ai Weiwei
as Self
Sophie Raworth
as Self (archive footage)
Joe Biden
as Self (archive footage)
Bernie Sanders
as Self (archive footage)
