Underground: The Julian Assange Story

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• Genre(s): Drama
• Language(s): English
• Cast(s): Callan McAuliffe, Anthony LaPaglia, Alex Williams, Laura Wheelwright, Rachel Griffiths See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 29min
• Award(s): Awgie 2013 (Won)
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• Similar To: The Bluff, Eternity
• Story:
  Julian Assange is one of the most significant figures of the twenty first century. But before he was famous, before WikiLeaks, before the internet even existed, he was a teenage computer hacker in Melbourne. This is his story. In 1989, known as ‘Mendax’, Assange and two friends formed a group called the ‘International Subversives’. Using early home computers and defining themselves as ‘white hat hackers’ - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. They were young, brilliant, and in the eyes of the US Government, a major threat to national security.
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