THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN: Julian Assange and the Price of Truth
Today Charlotte Street Films is thrilled to announce that it will release its Golden Globe and Cannes Film Festival award-winning film THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN: Julian Assange and the Price of Truth in UK and Irish cinemas from 19 December.
Winner of the 10th Anniversary L’Oeil d’or prize, Cannes Film Festival 2025 and winner of the first-ever Golden Globe Award for Documentary, THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN reveals the real story behind WikiLeaks — a tense, high-stakes investigation into truth, power, and the global fight for press freedom. Featuring never-before-seen footage and unprecedented access, the film unfolds like a real-life spy thriller, reminding us what is truly at stake when journalism becomes a crime.
Directed by award-winning director Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight, The House I Live In, Reagan, and The King) who is a two-time winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize as well as multiple Emmy and Peabody Awards, produced by Kathleen Fournier and Eugene Jarecki and executive produced by James Packer, Addison O’Dea and Mathilde Bonnefoy the film features Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Naomi Klein, Stella Assange, Pamela Anderson, Alan Duncan, Daniel Ellsberg, Jen Robinson, Nils Melzer, Rafael Correa and Sigurdur Thordarson.
Director Eugene Jarecki: “When the film premiered at Cannes Film Festival this year where it won both the Grand Prize and a Golden Globe for Documentary, audiences were shaken up by revelations that will make you question everything you thought you already knew about the Assange case. But now, times have changed so much and so rapidly, that audiences see the film as an urgent cautionary tale about what precisely is happening to all of us right now. We are now witnessing a war on journalism and a war on truth itself.”
THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN: Julian Assange and the Price of Truth received exceptional reviews at Cannes Film Festival* and will be released in UK and Irish cinemas from 19 December.
