EXCLUSIVE: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been described at various times by powerful people in the U.S. government as a spy, a “tool of Russian intelligence,” and a “high-tech terrorist.”

But to filmmaker Eugene Jarecki , the proper terms for Assange are whistleblower, truth-seeker, and defender of the public’s right to know essential information about their government’s conduct. Jarecki’s Oscar-contending documentary The Six Billion Dollar Man : Julian Assange and the Price of Truth reevaluates the controversial figure whose website exposed shocking secrets, like the “Collateral Murder” video that showed U.S. military personnel in Iraq committing what can only be called war crimes.

The Six Billion Dollar Man opens in theaters in the UK and Ireland on December 19 and in

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