Reality Winner

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Reality Winner

2023

1h 34m

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A state of secrets and a ruthless hunt for whistleblowers -- this is the story of 25-year-old NSA contractor Reality Winner, who disclosed a document about Russian election interference to the media and became the number one leak target of the Trump administration.

Critics Consensus

Reality Winner is a gripping and thought-provoking documentary that lays bare the harsh realities of government power, while highlighting the personal cost of speaking out against corruption.

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Natalia Winkelman

New York Times

10/12/2023

Who is Reality Winner? This documentary doesn’t dig deeper than her patently well-meaning exterior.

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Jacob Silverman

The New Republic

07/30/2021

United States v. Reality Winner explores profound questions of secrecy, whistleblowing and justice.

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Eric Kohn

IndieWire

03/25/2021

B

With a hodgepodge of testimonies from her family and a sturdy timeline of the events at hand, "United States vs. Reality Winner" consolidates the anger over her fate by the people who understand it best.

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Morgan Rojas

Cinemacy

10/17/2023

3/5

Traitor or hero? While there isn’t any “new” information shed that isn’t already accessible on Google, whistleblower Reality Winner speaks, for the first time, in this thought-provoking, self-titled exposé.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

10/10/2023

Vital, illuminating and enraging. A powerful wake-up call to the harsh truth that we're living in a very dysfunctional democracy.

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Carson Timar

ButteredPopcorn

02/15/2022

B+

The film might not hook every viewer, but plenty will be able to find a powerful and important message that needs to be shared and highlighted.

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Mark J

@RT36317547 04/28/2025

Reality Winner (and her Father) are insufferably intolerant throughout the movie. Her 'boyfriend' nailed it, "You say you care about everyone, but you only care about yourself". Much like Edward Snowden, she was not clever enough to consider there might be good reasons why espionage is not shared with the public. How many lives were endangered by her 'selfless act'? Her lack of any kind of deeper reasoning powers led to her betrayal of her oaths to her government.

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@chipanator 10/10/2023

She engaged in criminal activity. Glorification of sedition.

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America F

@EliTuck 06/13/2023

The Durham report offers more insight to what really happened

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Sonia Kennebeck

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Reality Winner

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Thomas Drake

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Ines Hofmann Kanna

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Synopsis

A state of secrets and a ruthless hunt for whistleblowers -- this is the story of 25-year-old NSA contractor Reality Winner, who disclosed a document about Russian election interference to the media and became the number one leak target of the Trump administration.

Director: Sonia Kennebeck
Producer: Ines Hofmann Kanna
Distributor: Codebreaker Films
Production Co: Codebreaker Films, XTR
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 7, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 31, 2023
Runtime: 1h 34m