Unless you followed the ups and downs — well, mostly the downs — of Julian Assange ’s life over the past 15 years, you’ll have to wait until the last half-hour of Eugene Jarecki’s new ...

Cannes: Eugene Jarecki on Why ‘Six Billion Dollar Man’ Subject Julian Assange is “Probably Not Dr. Evil” In his new documentary, Jarecki confronts the U.S.-led smear campaign against ...

‘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 saga of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has dragged on long enough, and complicatedly enough, to render a number of past films about him, if not obsolete, clear period pieces. Documentaries ...

With ‘Six Billion Dollar Man’ Doc, Eugene Jarecki Wants Julian Assange to Be Seen ‘As a Full Person’ Cannes 2025: “I’m not here to do counter-propaganda, I’m here to speak truth to ...

The Six Billion Dollar Man is premiering in the Special Screenings section of Cannes. It serves as a companion piece, in a sense, to another film bowing at the festival: Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2 ...

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 ...