‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ Review: Straight-Ahead Julian Assange Doc Looks Pessimistically Toward a Post-Truth World Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Special Screenings), May 21, 2025.

The first half of The Six Billion Dollar Man gives us some of the backstory leading up to that point, showing how Assange rose from unknown Australian hacker to worldwide hero of free journalism ...

As a work of journalism itself, “The Six Billion Dollar Man” is a methodical assemblage of known facts rather than a revelatory investigation — though it may be an eye-opener to younger ...

CANNES, France, May 21 (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is at the Cannes Film Festival this week for the documentary "The Six Billion Dollar Man," is thinking about how to become ...

The first half of The Six Billion Dollar Man gives us some of the backstory leading up to that point, showing how Assange rose from unknown Australian hacker to worldwide hero of free journalism ...

He deserves that." Indeed, with "The Six Billion Dollar Man," Jarecki hopes to recalibrate Assange's public image, painting a more fulsome picture of the Wikileaks founder.