Cannes Plays Host to Political Fireball with Julian Assange Doc The Six Billion Dollar Man
- Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, attended the May 20, 2025 Cannes Film Festival premiere of the documentary The Six Billion Dollar Man in France.
- The film traces Assange's decade-long legal battles, including his 2010 WikiLeaks releases and his June 2024 exoneration after the U.S. dropped 17 of 18 charges against him.
- Directed by Eugene Jarecki, the documentary uses archival footage and interviews to explore the political and legal efforts to prosecute Assange and their implications for free speech.
- Jarecki estimates U.S. government spending on prosecuting Assange exceeded $6 billion, calling him “a canary in the coal mine” illustrating media suppression and government overreach.
- Assange's public appearance at Cannes signals his recovery from imprisonment and hints at renewed political engagement amid concerns over global declines in press freedom.
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‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ Review: Straight-Ahead Julian Assange Doc Looks Pessimistically Toward a Post
Eugene Jarecki's Julian Assange documentary 'The Six Billion Dollar Man' contains few extraordinary revelations, but it's authoritative and absorbing.
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Until you adopted the ups and downs — nicely, principally the downs — of Julian Assange’s life over the previous 15 years, you’ll have to attend till the final half-hour of Eugene Jarecki’s new documentary, The Six Billion Greenback Man, to know what its title means. By that time, the WikiLeaks founder had been holed up for over six years on the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the place he confronted imminent arrest by the UK authorities. It’s t…
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The New ArabAssange open to political action as Cannes hosts documentary
Julian Assange was at the Cannes Film Festival with wife Stella and film director Eugene Jarecki. (AP PHOTO) By Hanna Rantala and Miranda Murray in Cannes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is thinking about how to become politically active again once he has fully recovered from prison, his wife Stella says. The couple walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of The Six Billion Dollar Man documentary about Assange’s life.…
‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ Review: Eugene Jarecki’s Julian Assange Doc Is a Jam-Packed Chronicle of Legal Persecution
The new film from the maker of 'Why We Fight' focuses on the fourteen years the famous WikiLeaks founder spent confined to an embassy and a London prison.
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The Straits TimesJulian Assange open to political action as Cannes hosts documentary
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is at the Cannes Film Festival this week for the documentary "The Six Billion Dollar Man," is thinking about how to become politically active again once he has fully recovered from prison, said his wife, Stella. Assange, 53, returned to his native Australia after pleading…
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