Snowden

Snowden (2016) is Oliver Stone's biographical thriller, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the analyst whose single choice rewrote his whole life.

A patriot who once trusted his government without question, Edward Snowden climbs through the CIA and NSA — and stumbles onto how far the agencies reach into ordinary phones, emails and webcams. What he sees at the screen keeps him up at night. His girlfriend Lindsay (Shailene Woodley) senses he is pulling away but cannot guess why. The road leads to a Hong Kong hotel room, two reporters and a recorder that cannot be switched off. The cast also includes Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Olyphant and Nicolas Cage.

Stone built the film from Snowden's own account and the journalists who first ran the leak. Less a lecture than a close study of a man who picked his conscience over his country. Stream Snowden (2016) online on iFILM.