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CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press. From TMDB

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  • Delbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    Make a movie a national security threat Snowden White

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  • The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 28, 2025

    Oliver Stone doing a glossy film adaptation of Snowden was a thing.

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  • Tehdastehdas @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 28, 2026

    Pre-emptive manipulation of society by nudge swarms around vigilant targets, as orchestrated by surveillance capitalist companies. Surveillance capitalist companies study people to better manipulate their behaviour by advertisements. That skill can be used to attack a vigilant target by using oblivious mediators as a drone swarm delivering a payload. ![qZDjDKadKCCZIbf.png](https://media.piefed.social/posts/qZ/Dj/qZDjDKadKCCZIbf.png) The documentary "The Social Dilemma" (2020) pointed…

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  • Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    The Snowden movie credit suddenly has a salient context.

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  • Letterboxd @letterboxd.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2025

    Scary Movie 2 (2001), directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans; written by Marlon Wayans, Alyson Fouse, Michael Anthony Snowden, Shawn Wayans, Craig Wayans, Greg Grabianski, Dave Polsky boxd.it/24Cw

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  • xiaolizhi @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 5, 2026

    I watched Citizenfour last weekend. This was an incredible documentary. I was too young to grasp the whole Snowden thing when it happened so this was a great recap. But I have a question. This all happened, but what was the aftermath of these leaks? It seems people today have completely forgotten about this or don't really care, so that domain kind of failed. And were there any consequences for the NSA, any legislative intervention, anything at all, or was it just . Do we have to assume nothing…

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  • Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2026

    Gonna do a film adaptation of Catch-22 where Snowden is just fine, actually. Then maybe follow it up with an adaptation of Angela's Ashes where Frank's mom is a billionaire.

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  • Majestic @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 8, 2026

    Let’s be clear that not just any state actor can do this. We’re talking about the US, UK, rest of the eyes alliance. Snowden revealed they are the threat who operates like this and we shouldn’t forget it. India can’t likely do this, China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa cannot do it.

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  • Snowden St. @snowden.stBluesky · Jul 23, 2026 · official account, not scored

    "never thought the single-name movie title would come for *you* guys, huh? weird, right??" -Me, a Snowden, to the scant few Ebenezers out there

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  • Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 17, 2025

    This was the first film where I actually had a sense of what the NSA does. (And then Snowden and suddenly the NSA was a household name and I was all SNEAKERS WARNED US like a person in an End of the World sandwich board.)

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  • Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 10, 2026

    We have the first review of our new documentary film, *Becoming Benjamin Lay*, written by Jordan Snowden for the *Pittsburgh Review of Books*, and it’s a good one! Join us tomorrow (Saturday, April 11) for the premiere at the Carnegie Library in Braddock, 4:00 pm. pghrev.com/becoming-ben...

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  • Stoner Philly Fan @stonerphillyfan.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2026

    What's striking about Enemy of the State is how much it feels like a post-9/11 movie, even though it came out in 1998. After 9/11, the Patriot Act, expanded warrantless surveillance, NSA data collection, and later the Snowden revelations made the movie’s paranoia seem much less far-fetched.

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  • Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2026

    I read all the reporting on Snowden’s leaks in 2013 and saw the movie Snowden in the theater in 2016. Watching it again now on Netflix… what changed?

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  • Jeremy @floregonian.comBluesky · Jan 4, 2025

    February 2024 I have mixed feelings about Snowden himself, and I haven’t seen the film, but Peter Gabriel is one of my favorite artists and his work on soundtracks is especially great. Just a weird little song, and lovely. I think Down to Earth is even better, but this was a delight to find.

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  • Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    Dick Contino (1930-2017) was an energetic accordion player whose movie-star looks made him a star in the late 1940s. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show nearly 50 times. He also played piano, clarinet, & saxophone. Contino was married to actress Leigh Snowden.

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  • samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    that was right at the end of Obama's War On Whistleblowers, and the leaks in the film (which go nowhere because Bourne doesn't uhhrm feel like it) are repeatedly called "worse than Snowden"

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  • SherrieLynn52 @sherrielynn52.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2026

    Anyone else remember the scene in the Catch 22 movie when Yossarian thinks Snowden is only slightly wounded, and when helping him Snowden's entrails pretty much fall out? Yeah, I think THAT is what the whole, UNREDACTED Epstein files would be like.

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  • Brendan O’Kane @bokane.orgBluesky · Jan 2, 2026

    Sneakers (1992) is a post-2013 movie from an alternate universe that had the Snowden leaks but no Web or cellphones

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  • Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    Many people still want to villainize Snowden as a traitor. What I like about the film is how deeply he works to humanize someone who has become a symbol for US privacy invasion and the need for transparency. Working with a very identifiable actor, Stone is careful to keep this story specific.

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  • Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    Stone made the very smart move to hire a committed, underrated actor (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) to play Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who revealed the scope of just how little privacy we have in a post-9/11 world. The result is a film that thrives off its central performance.

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  • Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    If Edward Snowden didn’t exist, Oliver Stone might have invented him. Snowden (2016) is a Stone film about a former employee of the U.S. government who becomes disillusioned with his country when he learns the depth of its deceit.

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  • Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    Today's movie (8-26-26) is Snowden (2016) a film about a former employee of the U.S. government who becomes disillusioned with his country when he learns the depth of its deceit.

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  • Snowden St. @snowden.stBluesky · Aug 18, 2026 · official account, not scored

    Stalinist ruler Snowden would prohibit the film industry from making any more movies about the drama of show business

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  • bag of cum @coughyhaus.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Nobody's ever been hurt watching a movie. Just saying! (Snowden, 134 minutes)

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  • seekarete.bsky.social @seekarete.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2026

    It's because of his role the Oliver Stone Snowden movie. Opened a lot of doors with the "what (((they))) don't wan't you to know" crowd.

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  • Friedrich Moser @friedrichmoser.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2026

    not just in the US. I remember well my discussions with folks in Germany and Austria after the release of my film A GOOD AMERICAN (prequel to the Snowden story) who refused any regulation of the digital space. I told them: if you don't regulate, you get law of the jungle. They didn't get it.

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  • Puzzlebombs @puzzlebombs.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2025

    buddy said the best movie he’d ever seen was Snowden with joseph gordon levitt

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  • Genesis & Solo News @genesisnews.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 16, 2025

    The film ‘Snowden’ was released in US cinemas nine years ago today. PETER GABRIEL wrote the song ‘The Veil’ for the film, which was released as a digital single at the time. It’s also on „Flotsam and Jetsam“. youtu.be/O4QutRhblpc @itspetergabriel.bsky.social #petergabriel #snowden

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  • Mel @mjdiscotheque.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    Had another Nicolas Cage movie marathon to get us back on track to watch them all by the end of the year 🙏 Yesterday we watched - Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Astro Boy Arcadian Snowden Hopefully tonight I’ll get the Nicolas Cage thread updated with our ratings 🫡 #filmsky #lastfourwatched

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  • Michael Campbell @moviemikec.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    As expected for a Gil Man movie, Leigh Snowden looks phenomenal in a bathing suit #TheCreatureWalksAmongUs #Svengoolie

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  • Tea-Starved Beast @mixedberrytea.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    it is wild to me that, in the context of the movie, the Edward Snowden-esque hacking collective is more of a priority to Ice Cube than the aliens just ripping through everything I still have no idea what the fuck that movie was trying to say incoherent fever dream of audio and visual input

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  • coupon for poupon @couponforpoupon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2025

    FWIW, I thought the movie 2073 did a pretty good job depicting the extent and nature of modern surveillance states. (Snowden wasn't wrong, but pretty foolish to take refuge in the land of oligarchs who push journalists and whistleblowers out of windows.) youtu.be/YDE97KrYDuU?...

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  • Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2024

    To be fair, if Western media starts questioning the "Pablo Gonzalez" case, it's a slippery slope that ends who knows where. Might start asking questions about Assange helping Guccifer2.0 & lying about Seth Rich. Or reading about what Snowden actually did rather than watching the Oliver Stone movie.

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  • Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 16, 2024

    Under-discussed how weird American politics got in like 2013-2015, when Hollywood made a big budget sympathetic movie about Snowden. Liberals were bored (the 2014 mid-terms had absolutely shockingly low Democratic turnout) and conservatives, well…

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  • kavyasingh.bsky.social @kavyasingh.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    Survilence capitalism as our technological affordances grew only gave more power to corporations. it’s a huge violation of privacy with not enough media literacy to tackle it. Influencers are like mini salesmen dressed as someone “relatable”. the movie “Snowden“ is a great example #Media180FA26D06

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  • Tehdastehdas @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 28, 2026

    Pre-emptive manipulation of society by nudge swarms around vigilant targets, as orchestrated by surveillance capitalist companies. Surveillance capitalist companies study people to better manipulate their behaviour by advertisements. That skill can be used to attack a vigilant target by using oblivious mediators as a drone swarm delivering a payload. ![qZDjDKadKCCZIbf.png](https://media.piefed.social/posts/qZ/Dj/qZDjDKadKCCZIbf.png) The documentary "The Social Dilemma" (2020) pointed…

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  • H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.orgBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    Snowden showed me that pic for the first time and I was like holy shit, that rocks howd they get that on film and he was like “uh, they didn’t dude, this is a recreation lol” and fuck I felt stupid

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  • omacolt.bsky.social @omacolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 28, 2026

    #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge Day 28 Movie about data security or a data breach Snowden (2016)

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  • Cibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2026

    IIRC it's a plot point in that post-Snowden Bourne movie

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  • Scott Myers @gointothestory.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2025

    Page One: “Scary Movie 2” (2001), written by Shawn Wayans & Marlon Wayans & Alyson Fouse & Greg Grabianski & Dave Polsky & Michael Anthony Snowden & Craig Wayans Read the screenplay here. gointothestory.blcklst.com/page-one-sca... #movies #screenwriting

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  • mizGigiB🇨🇦🪶🧡💛🤍🖤🇵🇪 @gigibu.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2025

    If you watch Snowden the movie on Netflix, he appears in the end. He had no regrets as to what he did, nor where he landed.

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  • GeekTyrant @geektyrant.comBluesky · Dec 7, 2024

    “No word on plot details yet, but we hear Gordon-Levitt wrote the script with Kieran Fitzgerald, who previously co-wrote his 2016 Oliver Stone movie Snowden.” AI will probably be the villain

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  • @JohnBGilman.bsky.social @johnbgilman.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2026

    Finally had a chance to watch Oliver Stone's 2016 film about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Joseph Gordon-Levitt turns in a superb performance as Snowden. A very well done, powerful & disturbing film. We must remember that this happened under Obama's presidency & things must be much worse now.

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  • Andy Rose @andyrose12.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2026

    bookmark, share, follow “While also for the PRoB, Jordan Snowden interviewed documentarian Tony Buba & historian Marcus Rediker about their new film on the 18th century abolitionist Benjamin Lay.

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  • ChainPaul Man: The Movie - Reze-less Arc. @plh85.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    Kinda figured SNOWDEN would be his last movie and he'd spend the rest of his career making unwatchable hagiographies of murderous dictators but I am a fan of his theatrical narrative work and will check out Josh Hartnett in a new film from Oliver Stone. deadline.com/2026/03/oliv...

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  • Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2026

    Well duh! The penny finally dropped. But then, I was asked to review the ‘Snowden’ movie some years ago so I’ve been aware. Seems perhaps a lot of people didn’t see it.

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  • Jim 🏳️‍🌈 @crazyjim.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 8, 2026

    Absolutely nothing beats the awful wig they made poor Shailene wear in Snowden. A freaking OLIVER STONE film…

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  • Now Playing Podcast @nowplayingpod.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2026

    Everybody seems to like lists sorted by string length (why???) But to jump on the trend, here’s every movie we reviewed in 2025! Clue Ouija Congo Nobody Wicked The Net Hackers Snowden Sinners Species Inferno The Wiz

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  • Techs @werewolfpack.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2024

    Hackers Can Access Laptop Webcams Without Activating LED Indicator cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-can-... #hackers #laptop #webcam #edwardsnowden yes in the movie based on Edward Snowden showed this

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  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 1, 2026

    I'm a straight guy and even I can tell he's a handsome bloke. I had a similar thought about Snowden and Assange. Both those guys look like movie stars.

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  • tookwancottage.bsky.social @tookwancottage.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 25, 2026

    ..+even more progressive African-American people livid+another public rejection of zionism+even more Edward Snowden has revenge against zionism+more anti-zionism Antipodes power+again covert zionism of Global North corpocracy film industry+even more closeted bisexuality of United States corpocracy..

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  • Andee Harry @andeeharry1.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    Today is 10th anniversary to Sully Bayer Monsanto Merger Snowden film Nick Cave and the bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree song Angel Olsen: My Woman song Spongebob; Mall Girl Pearl Spongebob Two Thumbs Down The Simpsons: Monty Burns Fleeing Circus Star Trek Beyond

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  • Stephen Gutknecht @[email protected]Mastodon · Sep 13, 2026

    #LG #FWakeLG #Spying Look everyone. The year 2016 film #Snowden #OliverStone Oliver Stone is the legend on men arguing conspiracy. 1. NSA was spying on other nations 2. Korea is doing it via LG

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  • MyloWhylo @mylowhylo.spacechicken.gayBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    Star Trek: Into Darkness really feels like a movie released in the middle of the war on terror, post-Snowden, and post-Sandy Hook. It's a little too 2013 Zeitgeisty for me lmao

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  • Not Morals of an Alley Cat. @tradesouthwest.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2026

    Have you seen "Citizen Four" The 3rd Ed Snowden movie.

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  • ChapterBrief @chapterbrief.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2026

    Motoko's story gets more relevant every decade. the 1995 film reads completely differently post-Snowden - do you think the new gen has that context when they watch it?

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  • estate4column5 @estate4column5.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2026

    a reminder to re-watch Oliver Stone's Snowden film where Ed works for Dell

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  • Andee Harry @andeeharry1.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2026

    Happy International (1) Go Skateboarding Day Peaches and Cream Day Anne Day Samantha Day Arizona Day UK father's Day Bereaved Fathers' Day Edward Snowden 43rd birthday Fast and Furious 25th anniversary Dr Dolittle 2 25th anniversary Evolution film 25th anniversary The Kinks Day

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  • Ekimellnea @ekimellneaMastodon · Jun 5, 2026

    Who watches the watchers? Richard J. Aldrich asks the hard questions in GCHQ. Security vs. privacy. Power vs. accountability. A 4-star read. #GCHQ #Surveillance #Snowden #books #bookreviews https://grandpasbookreviews.blogspot.com/2026/04/gchq-britain-secret-intelligence-agency.html

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  • RF_Dude Слава Україні 🇺🇦 @rfdude.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2026

    Orbán and Snowden and Tara Reid can take tea on the patio, maybe joined by Yanukovich and Famous Aktion Movie Star Steven Seagal! Good times! 🤣

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