The Fifth Estate is a 2013 American thriller film directed by Bill Condon, about the news-leaking website WikiLeaks . The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as its editor-in-chief and founder Julian Assange, and Daniel BrΓΌhl as its former spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Estate_(film) The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keepin...