{"id":189335,"date":"2025-11-19T17:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/189335\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:24:17","slug":"watch-clip-from-julian-assange-documentary-the-six-billion-dollar-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/189335\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Clip From Julian Assange Documentary ‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki<\/a> harbors no doubt about who came out the victor in the protracted legal battle between the U.S. government and Wikileaks<\/a> founder Julian Assange<\/a>. He says Assange prevailed over the most powerful country in the world.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Jarecki\u2019s Oscar-contending documentary The Six Billion Dollar Man<\/a>, the director explores the stunning classified information Wikileaks exposed over the years, like the \u201ccollateral murder\u201d video that showed U.S. military personnel in Apache helicopters firing on innocent people in Iraq in 2007, killing a dozen people including two Reuters journalists. And he documents the twists and turns in the American government\u2019s legal case against Assange that charged him with violations of the Espionage Act and conspiracy related to computer hacking.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this month, Watermelon Pictures<\/a> announced it acquired North American rights to the documentary. It plans an Oscar-qualifying run this year before a wider theatrical release in the new year. Watch an extended clip from the film above.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Director<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tDirector Eugene Jarecki and Julian Assange pose during the \u2018The Six Billion Dollar Man\u2019 photocall at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2025.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTristan Fewings\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tAssange has been free for a little over a year since he struck a plea bargain with the U.S. that saw him plead guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Act, though he publicly stipulated the espionage law runs counter to the First Amendment, bringing into question its legality. He attended the world premiere of The Six Billion Dollar Man at the Cannes Film Festival in May where it won the festival\u2019s 10th anniversary L\u2019Oeil d\u2019or prize, along with the newly-created Golden Globe Award for documentary.<\/p>\n

\n\tAssange attended the L\u2019Oeil d\u2019or ceremony; Deadline attempted to speak with him there but he declined. We did talk with Jarecki after he accepted the L\u2019Oeil d\u2019or prize.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s exciting, it\u2019s validation for Julian and for Wikileaks,\u201d Jarecki told us. \u201cI think Julian is getting validated all over the world. I think it started when the U.S. dropped 17 of their 18 counts against him and revealed that they had literally been in a campaign to destroy him all these years. That\u2019s where he first got a boost. All that\u2019s happening now is he gets to take his victory lap. He gets to take his triumphant walk on the ashes of their phony case against him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Cannes, we also spoke with the filmmaker in our Deadline Studio<\/a> where he alluded to the meaning of his documentary\u2019s title.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat we witnessed is about 15 years of [the U.S.] going after Julian Assange to bury him and his team,\u201d Jarecki noted, \u201cand ultimately the U.S. government was willing to spend $6 billion to try to destroy him, which is what the film really reveals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Wikileaks<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tWikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London on February 5, 2016.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCarl Court\/Getty Image<\/p>\n

\n\tMuch of that $6B figure took the form of an alleged financial inducement offered by the first Trump administration in 2019 that incentivized Ecuador to renege on a deal that had granted political asylum to Assange. After his asylum was revoked, Assange was booted from the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he had taken refuge; he was promptly arrested by U.K. authorities and spent five years in custody there before striking his plea deal with the U.S. under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tDirector Eugene Jarecki with the L\u2019Oeil d\u2019or prize in Cannes<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatthew Carey<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Six Billion Dollar Man is produced by Jarecki and Kathleen Fournier for Charlotte Street Films, and co-produced by Andrew McLain, Molly Bareiss, Claudia Becker, Jos\u00e9 Passarelli, and Juan Passarelli; executive producers include Addison O\u2019Dea, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Geralyn White Dreyfous, and James Packer.<\/p>\n

\n\tJarecki\u2019s credits include Why We Fight (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance 2005), The House I Live In (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance 2012), and The King (Cannes Official Selection, 2017).<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Julian<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tJulian Assange<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSunshine Press Productions Ehf<\/p>\n

\n\tRegarding The Six Billion Dollar Man, he told us in our studio interview, \u201cThe truth matters to us more than ever because we\u2019re living in a world that really feels like it\u2019s spinning out of control to most of us. So we want to know what\u2019s going on. And when you find out that the U.S. government was willing to spend $6 billion just to bury one truth seeker, it tells you what they think about the truth, the very truth we want to know. So, there\u2019s more reason than ever to understand the Assange and Wikileaks story because it relates to everything we are all about to face in our own world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the extended clip from The Six Billion Dollar Man above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki harbors no doubt about who came out the victor in the protracted legal battle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,105959,19,17,105960,327,105961,105962,105963],"class_list":{"0":"post-189335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-eugene-jarecki","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-julian-assange","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-the-six-billion-dollar-man","16":"tag-watermelon-pictures","17":"tag-wikileaks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115577531384953258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}