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Uncover the shocking and courageous stories behind some of cinema’s most gripping whistleblower tales. From corporate corruption to government scandals, these movies showcase the brave individuals who risk it all to bring hidden truths to light. Featuring powerful performances and intense drama, these films will keep you on the edge of your seat while reminding us why courage matters.
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00:00Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most notable movies centered around characters who
00:06risk everything to drag corruption, misconduct, or plain old dishonesty into the light.
00:11I'm afraid my firm has behaved in an unethical manner.
00:19Number 20. The Whistleblower
00:21A routine peacekeeping assignment in post-war Bosnia takes a disturbing turn when Catherine Bolkovac begins uncovering a sex trafficking
00:29operation.
00:30Nine girls there. Nine girls there. Help them.
00:34Where, where?
00:34Florida Bar.
00:35Florida Bar? What is that? What is Florida Bar?
00:37It's one of the bars in the hills.
00:38I can take them to the Zeneca shelter. That's where we usually take these girls.
00:44Usually?
00:45Working as a police monitor for the United Nations, she discovers women being exploited by a network involving private contractors
00:52and personnel connected to the international mission.
00:54Worse, efforts to report the abuse are met with resistance from people who should be investigated.
01:00Well, I don't know how to move forward. I've lost two witnesses. Raya and Erika won't testify now. She's too
01:08terrified.
01:09Do you think Fred Murray is only getting payoffs from one bar?
01:15No.
01:16Rachel Weiss portrays Bolkovac as she risks her career to pursue the truth, despite the powerful institutions standing in her
01:23way.
01:23Based on Bolkovac's real experiences, the film highlights a particularly ugly side of whistleblowing.
01:30Sometimes, the people trying to bury the scandal are the ones wearing the badges.
01:34We got a call about this raid.
01:36Oh, yeah? From who?
01:41Get out.
01:44Get out.
01:44I want you to get out.
01:45Get out!
01:46Out!
01:46Get out!
01:48Right now!
01:48Get out!
01:49Get your hands off.
01:50Number 19.
01:51The Fifth Estate.
01:52What happens when exposing secrets becomes an entire business model?
01:56This dramatization of WikiLeaks follows its explosive rise and the increasingly complicated relationship between founder Julian Assange and collaborator Daniel
02:05Domscheit-Berg.
02:06I sent leaks to our mirror sites.
02:08You should post...
02:10Having fun making history instead of reading about it?
02:13Yeah.
02:14And there's a new wire plot you should post as well.
02:17Let's have a look.
02:18Together, they work to publish confidential material that could embarrass governments and powerful organizations around the world.
02:24But disagreements emerge over transparency, responsibility, and how much information should actually be released.
02:31If we publicized the report better, then they would have been heroes.
02:40And there would be too high political costs to murdering them.
02:45Gibaki wouldn't have dared.
02:48He's a tyrant, Julian.
02:50I don't think more publicity would have...
02:51Oh, what the hell do you know about publicity?
02:54Benedict Cumberbatch plays Assange, with Daniel Brühl portraying Domscheit-Berg, whose perspective provides much of the film's human drama.
03:02While the movie takes some liberties with events, it keeps its focus on a digital revolution in whistleblowing that turns
03:08classified information into front-page news.
03:11Well, that's all very well, but The Guardian can't be seen to condone publishing something that puts lives in danger.
03:18And morals aside, it's about how you're perceived.
03:22You're starting an information war with the United States government.
03:27You mustn't hand them ammunition.
03:29Number 18.
03:30The Informant
03:31Mark Whitaker.
03:32Based on the true story of Mark Whitaker, the highest-ranking executive whistleblower in American history,
03:38this crime comedy sees Matt Damon take on the role of the bland and mild vice president of one of
03:43the United States' biggest corporations.
03:45When Whitaker finds out his company is involved in global price-fixing that has cost consumers billions,
03:50it's not long before he spills the beans and is recruited as an informant for the FBI.
03:55We already spent more than one year to get better Mark's situation in Lysen.
04:00Well, we talked a little bit about it in Paris, but we need to come to an understanding on volume.
04:06But is he all that innocent himself?
04:08This fascinating Steven Soderbergh thriller keeps us guessing as Damon keeps us watching.
04:13What I'm about to tell you is it involves something very large.
04:17This Nakawara extortion thing is nothing compared to it, nothing at all.
04:24Now, this involves price-fixing in the Lysen business.
04:28Number 17, Dark Waters.
04:30I am a corporate defense attorney.
04:33So?
04:33I defend chemical companies.
04:35Well, now you can defend me.
04:38Rob.
04:39Uh, 30 seconds, Tom.
04:42Uh, I'm sorry, Mr...
04:44Lieutenant?
04:44I can offer you a referral, but I'm just... I just don't see how I can be of any help
04:49to you.
04:49In this 2019 legal thriller, Mark Ruffalo plays attorney Robert Bellott,
04:54who reluctantly takes on a case brought by West Virginia farmer Wilbur Tennant against chemical giant DuPont.
05:00Tennant gives Bellott evidence suggesting something is seriously wrong with the company's disposal of chemicals,
05:05including the deaths and illnesses affecting his cattle.
05:08You want to sue DuPont?
05:09Targeted.
05:11Property dispute.
05:12Routine stuff.
05:13Not routine.
05:14Not around here.
05:15I know, but Tom, if you'd actually seen it, his farm is like a graveyard.
05:20There's something very wrong.
05:22As Bellott digs through decades of corporate records, he uncovers evidence surrounding PFOA,
05:27also known as C8, and a much larger contamination problem.
05:31What would it do to your teeth if you drank it?
05:34Don't tell me if you shouldn't if you did.
05:36If you drank a lot of it, what would it do to your teeth?
05:38Well, in trace amounts, fluoride hardens teeth, but too much, it's going to stain them and even turn them black.
05:46The investigation becomes a years-long battle against DuPont, with Bellott pushing the evidence into public view.
05:52Based on true events, the film shows how one alarming tip can crack open a corporate secret with enormous consequences.
06:00Two of the seven women, nearly 30%, gave birth to babies that have the exact facial deformities that your company
06:08already knew about.
06:09We're done here.
06:12Sir?
06:14His parents named him Bucky.
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06:25knowing about.
06:25You don't want the truth because deep down in places, you don't talk about at parties.
06:29You want me on that wall.
06:32You need me on that wall.
06:34Number 16.
06:35The Social Reckoning
06:36Listen, before I go on, I want to make something clear.
06:39Okay.
06:40I have a hunch you're not a fan of Facebook.
06:43But I am.
06:44I am here to help Facebook, not hurt it.
06:47Okay?
06:48You send me a message.
06:49What would you like to talk about?
06:51In 2021, Francis Haugen walked out of Facebook with something the company really didn't want anyone else to see.
06:57Thousands of internal documents.
06:59Those files, shared with Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz,
07:03helped expose troubling practices regarding the platform's approach to content moderation, algorithms, and user safety.
07:09Wait.
07:10Mark.
07:11We're trying to address hate speech.
07:13And we're going to amplify and turbocharging.
07:16The debate is over.
07:18Mikey Madison plays Haugen with Jeremy Allen White as Horwitz in this standalone sequel to The Social Network.
07:24Aaron Sorkin, who won an Academy Award for writing the original film, returns as both writer and director,
07:30shifting the focus from Facebook's creation to the whistleblower who challenged it.
07:34We have 102 hours to get everything.
07:37Evidence of drug cartels.
07:39And a study that hasn't been made public on Instagram and teen mental health.
07:44The film has received more mixed reviews than its predecessor, but its real-life subject gives this follow-up plenty
07:50to unpack.
07:51I'm a free speech absolutist, so accept where there's imminent harm.
07:55You can't say absolutist and accept in the same.
07:56Where there's imminent harm.
07:56With the new optimizations, with the MSI, the fire hose of bad information you are injecting into the air supply
08:02is becoming jet-powered.
08:03It's hydraulic.
08:04Harm, I promise you, is f***ing imminent.
08:07Number 15.
08:08The Post.
08:09What I just said.
08:09McNamara is talking to you because you are the publisher of The Washington Post.
08:14No, that is not why.
08:15Because he wants you to bail him out.
08:17No.
08:17Because he wants you on his side.
08:19No, Ben, that's not my role.
08:21You know that.
08:22I wouldn't presume to tell you how to write about him.
08:25Steven Spielberg's The Post dramatizes The Washington Post's decision to publish the Pentagon Papers,
08:30a classified Defense Department study detailing the history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
08:36Meryl Streep plays publisher Catherine Graham,
08:38while Tom Hanks portrays editor Ben Bradley as the newspaper weighs legal and financial risks against the public's right to
08:45know.
08:46We have to be the check on their power.
08:49If we don't hold them accountable, I mean, my God, who will?
08:55Well, I've never smoked a cigar, and I have no problem holding Lyndon or Jack or Bob or any of
09:00them accountable.
09:01But we can't hold them accountable if we don't have a newspaper.
09:05But the story begins with Daniel Ellsberg, played by Matthew Rees,
09:09the former military analyst who copied the study and provided it to newspapers,
09:14including The New York Times and The Washington Post.
09:16They violated the Geneva Convention, they lied to Congress, and they lied to the public.
09:21They knew we couldn't win, and still sent boys to die.
09:25What about Nixon?
09:28He's just carrying on like all the others.
09:30His leak exposed a gap between government statements and its private assessments of the war.
09:35That singular act became one of America's most consequential instances of whistleblowing.
09:40Okay, these are extraordinary circumstances.
09:42Are they? Are they?
09:44For a newspaper? One that covers the Nixon White House?
09:48Can you guarantee me that we could go to print without endangering any of our soldiers?
09:53You can't be considering going to...
09:54I'm talking to Mr. Bradley now.
09:56Number 14, Quiz Show.
09:58What if we would have put you on the show, put you on 21, and ask you questions that you
10:04know?
10:05Say the questions that he answered correctly on the test this morning.
10:09I don't follow you.
10:10Just thinking out loud.
10:12I thought the questions were in a bank vault.
10:15Television audiences thought they were watching contestants battle it out for money and glory.
10:19Behind the scenes, however, the 50s game show 21 was rigged,
10:23and this movie dramatizes how that revelation came to light.
10:27Herb Stemple, played by John Turturro,
10:29is deliberately instructed to lose so producers can promote Charles Van Doren as a more appealing champion.
10:34Best picture?
10:41On the waterfront?
10:44No, I'm sorry.
10:46The answer is Marty.
10:50When Stemple later reveals that contestants were being given answers,
10:53his accusations initially go nowhere.
10:56He contacts authorities and reporters, but few people believe him.
11:00Listen to me.
11:01Don't make necessarily the mistakes that I might have made in life.
11:04Think about your career.
11:06You nailed Van Doren.
11:08It'll be bigger than Sputnik.
11:09It'll be like a big blonde Sputnik crashing right down on his friggin' head.
11:13Eventually, a broader investigation into television quiz shows exposes the deception,
11:18leading to congressional hearings and a national scandal.
11:21Quiz Show captures the uncomfortable moment when America discovers that even supposedly innocent entertainment can be manufactured.
11:28Charlie, did you know you've been fired by NBC?
11:32No, no.
11:32Charlie, what do you have to say to the young people of America?
11:35Professor, are you proud of your son?
11:37I've always been proud of Charlie.
11:39You're proud of what he did?
11:40The important thing now is for Charlie to get back to his teaching.
11:43Number 13.
11:44The Firm
11:45Based on the 1991 novel by John Grisham,
11:48The Firm stars Tom Cruise as Mitch McDeer,
11:51a young lawyer who lands a lucrative position at a prestigious Memphis firm,
11:55only to discover that the glamorous workplace has a deadly secret.
11:59I went with the firm across the river in Memphis.
12:02Memphis?
12:03Hey, Ray.
12:06Would it be funny if I went to Harvard and you went to jail and we both ended up surrounded
12:10by crooks?
12:11The Firm is deeply tied to the Chicago mob,
12:14facilitating money laundering and other crimes,
12:16while lawyers who threaten to expose the operation meet grim fates.
12:20Are you saying my life is in bed?
12:21I'm saying that your life as you know it is over.
12:28Your law firm is the sole legal representative of the Moraldo crime family in Chicago,
12:34known as the Mafia, the Mob.
12:38I don't believe it.
12:39When the FBI pressures Mitch to cooperate,
12:42he secretly gathers evidence that can bring the firm down.
12:45His problem is that leaving is dangerous,
12:47staying is dangerous,
12:48and trusting the wrong person could be fatal.
12:51Do you hear what I said?
12:51Get out of there.
12:52Get over here now.
12:58Can you?
13:02I understand.
13:03Sidney Pollack's thriller turns professional ambition
13:06into a high-stakes lesson in what happens
13:08when an insider decides to stop looking away.
13:11The files haven't been stolen.
13:13They aren't exactly the same place they were.
13:17I just felt it was important for me to be thoroughly familiar
13:20with the precise makeup and whereabouts of all your holdings and activities.
13:25Number 12, the Pelican Brief.
13:28We have two dead judges, both of whom were being protected by the FBI.
13:33Bob, I'd like a straight answer.
13:36Are these killings in any way linked to the CIA
13:38or to any agency, group, whatever, the United States government?
13:43Another John Grisham adaptation.
13:45This film stars Julia Roberts as Darby Shaw,
13:48a Tulane law student whose research into the murders of two Supreme Court justices
13:52produces a theory she calls the Pelican Brief.
13:54Everyone is assuming that the motive is hatred or revenge.
13:57Or an attempt to influence the social agenda of the court.
14:01What if the issue involved old-fashioned material greed?
14:04A case that involves a great deal of money.
14:06She submits it to her professor and eventually reaches an FBI contact.
14:10But the document lands in dangerous hands.
14:13Suddenly, people connected to the conspiracy are willing to kill
14:16to keep its contents from becoming public.
14:18According to the FBI, they found his body the day before yesterday
14:23in a hotel room very early in the morning.
14:27They said he'd been dead for at least eight hours.
14:32That can't be.
14:33Denzel Washington plays Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham,
14:37who helps Darby pursue the truth while powerful interests close in.
14:41Although Darby is not a conventional workplace whistleblower,
14:44her discovery threatens to expose a political conspiracy
14:47reaching into the highest levels of government.
14:49Who killed the man who masqueraded as Gavin Verheek?
14:52Oh, you mean the assassin, Kamel.
14:55Off the record, the man who killed Kamel was a contract operative
14:58hired independently by the CIA.
15:02Rupert?
15:03He probably has 20 names.
15:05Number 11.
15:06A Few Good Men.
15:07Did you assault Santiago with the intent of killing him?
15:10No, sir.
15:10What was your intent?
15:11To train him, sir.
15:13Train him to do what?
15:14Train him to think of his unit before himself.
15:17To respect the code.
15:19What's the code?
15:21Unit Corps God Country.
15:22In A Few Good Men, Tom Cruise plays military lawyer Daniel Caffey,
15:27who defends two Marines accused of killing a fellow serviceman at Guantanamo Bay.
15:31The case initially appears straightforward,
15:34but Caffey and his team uncover evidence of an unauthorized disciplinary practice known as a code red.
15:39You want to ask me about code reds on the record, I tell you I discourage the practice.
15:44In accordance with the commander's directive, off the record, I tell you it is an invaluable part of close infantry
15:51training.
15:51And if it happens to go on without my knowledge, so be it.
15:55I run my unit how I run my unit.
15:58Their investigation eventually points towards senior officers who ordered the hazing and then attempted to conceal what happened.
16:05Jack Nicholson's Colonel Nathan Jessup becomes the face of that command culture,
16:09insisting that military necessity excuses almost anything.
16:12You want answers?
16:13I think I'm entitled to you.
16:14You want answers!
16:16I want the truth!
16:17You can't handle the truth!
16:20Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
16:24Who's gonna do it?
16:26You?
16:26You, Lieutenant Weinberg!
16:28The film is fictional, but its central conflict is very much about exposing misconduct inside a powerful institution,
16:35and the enormous pressure placed on anyone who refuses to stay silent.
16:39You put people's lives in danger.
16:42Sweet dreams, son.
16:45Don't call me son.
16:46I'm a lawyer and an officer in the United States Navy.
16:51And you're under arrest, you son of a bitch.
16:53Number 10.
16:55Silkwood.
16:55If I tell you, you promise not to tell anybody?
16:58Starring legends like Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher, this is the life story of Karen Silkwood,
17:04an average, everyday woman who works at a nuclear plant.
17:07You were supposed to work my shift yesterday.
17:11When the company begins to cut corners and employees begin to work overtime,
17:14Yeah, I know, I'm not always here, but, you know, we're working double shifts.
17:20Silkwood realizes that the compromises being made are hazardous, and that lives are being endangered.
17:25Well, it says here, plutonium gives you cancer.
17:30It says it flat out.
17:32However, upon standing up to the union officials, she finds that they are more worried about publicity than safety.
17:38I know what you're doing, and you're the wrong person to be doing it.
17:42And it's dangerous.
17:44And that's all I'm saying.
17:46Streep disappears completely into her role based on the real-life nuclear power whistleblower,
17:51and was Oscar-nominated for her efforts.
17:54We could set you up with a reporter from the New York Times,
17:57get the company up against the wall on contract negotiations,
18:01but you'd have to have documentation.
18:03Mm-hmm. I don't know about putting names in the newspaper.
18:06Names aren't the point.
18:08The point is that if you're right, they could kill off two million people.
18:13There's a moral imperative involved here.
18:15Number nine, The Constant Gardener.
18:17And you too, please, gentlemen, thank you. It was kind of you to come.
18:25When Justin Quayle, played by a forceful Ralph Fiennes,
18:29finds out that his wife, an opinionated humanitarian and activist, has been slain,
18:33he refuses to accept the obvious and begins to investigate what really happened.
18:38My name is Justin Quayle from the High Commission.
18:41I believe you knew my wife, Tessa.
18:43As he does so, he uncovers a conspiracy linked to a powerful drug corporation and the local foreign office.
18:49And as the truth comes out, he finds himself picking up where his wife left off.
18:53I didn't know they'd kill her.
18:56Silly sod was besotted with her.
18:58But that's the way it works with corporate murder.
19:00Racking up BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominations,
19:04this is one drama thriller that'll keep you on the edge of your seat.
19:07I mean, these people, they kill anybody.
19:09Sonny, have you lost your senses?
19:13There was something else. There was a letter.
19:15What? You lunatic.
19:17Do you know what you're doing?
19:18You're killing us both.
19:19Number eight, The China Syndrome.
19:21Steady as a rock, Jack.
19:22All right, Ted, call 35 and tell him to go to 110.
19:25Wait a minute.
19:26As lauded for the brilliant performances as the story itself,
19:30this thriller follows a nuclear plant employee, a reporter, and a cameraman
19:34who find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy that could potentially kill thousands of people.
19:39We're at the top of the scale.
19:40I got a technician in the diesel engine room.
19:42He's got a rig to go up to 110.
19:43We watch it on the monitor.
19:45It all starts when the shift supervisor, played by a hesitant and Oscar-nominated Jack Lemmon,
19:50uncovers that an earthquake at the nuclear plant where he works is actually a symptom of something much more deadly.
19:56This is Jack Goodell.
19:57We have a serious condition.
19:58You get everybody into safety areas and make sure that they stay there.
20:01When a cameraman, played by Michael Douglas, gets involved by secretly filming the control room
20:06and records something dangerous.
20:18It's up to him, the cautious supervisor, and Jane Fonda's reporter to expose the risk before a meltdown occurs.
20:25Sorry, Don, but the whales will be there tomorrow.
20:27I don't care if she's supposed to do a piece on the whales.
20:29It was scheduled.
20:29We advertised on the radio.
20:31I want to see her the minute she gets back.
20:32And I want to talk to you later, too.
20:34Okay, Don.
20:35Number 7, Michael Clayton.
20:37Jerry's Michael Clayton.
20:38With the incomparable George Clooney in the leading role,
20:41and with Tilda Swinton winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress,
20:45this film takes us into the dark world of an attorney who doubles as a fixer for a powerful law
20:50firm,
20:51benefiting his clients with his shadowy business practices.
20:54Don't you know who I am?
20:55I'm a fixer.
20:56I'm a bag man.
20:57I do everything from shoplifting housewives to bent congressmen.
21:00When a client of the firm he works for is sued after it's discovered to be involved
21:04in the production of a carcinogenic weed killer,
21:06I spent 12% of my life defending the reputation of a deadly weed killer.
21:11Michael must decide whose side he's on and who to believe as the corruption and secrecy spiral out of control.
21:17You North, what if he wasn't crazy?
21:19What if he was right?
21:21Right about what?
21:22That we're on the wrong side?
21:23Wrong side, wrong way, everything, all of it.
21:25Number 6, Erin Brockovich.
21:28Um, are you Erin Brockovich?
21:29Yeah.
21:30In a movie based on the real-life Erin Brockovich,
21:33Julia Roberts dazzles as the title character,
21:35a role for which she won the coveted Academy Award for Best Actress.
21:39Playing an everyday woman who learns that Pacific Gas and Electric
21:43has contaminated groundwater and is responsible for many illnesses and deaths,
21:47Hey, Erin, I thought you were taking a sick day.
21:50She decides to take on the multi-billion dollar corporation at any cost.
21:55These people don't dream about being rich.
21:57They dream about being able to watch their kids swim in a pool
22:00without worrying that they'll have to have a hysterectomy at the age of 20,
22:04like Rosa Diaz, a client of ours,
22:06or have their spine deteriorate like Stan Bloom, another client of ours.
22:10Along with the customary Hollywood coupling of romance, comedy, and intrigue,
22:14Roberts pulls off the likable character in this whistleblower classic
22:18that Brockovich herself has cited as, quote,
22:21probably 98% accurate.
22:23I want you to think real hard about what your spine is worth, Mr. Walker.
22:27Or what you might expect someone to pay you for your uterus, Ms. Sanchez.
22:31Then you take out your calculator and you multiply that number by 100.
22:35Anything less than that is a waste of our time.
22:40By the way, we had that water brought in special for you folks.
22:43It came from Well and Hinkley.
22:47Apparently, this priest molested kids in six different parishes
22:50over the last 30 years, and the attorney for the victims, Mr.
22:54Garabedian.
22:55Thanks, I mean, Mr. Garabedian says Cardinal Law found out about it 15 years ago
22:59and did nothing.
23:00Yeah, I think that attorney's a bit of a crank,
23:02and the church dismissed the claim.
23:03A recipient of the Academy Award for Best Picture,
23:06Spotlight follows the Boston Globe's investigative team
23:08as it uncovers decades of sexual impropriety by Catholic priests
23:12and the institutional mechanisms that allowed the abuse to continue.
23:16This is big.
23:17This is not just Boston.
23:18This is a whole country.
23:20It's a whole world.
23:21And it goes right up to the Vatican.
23:24Do you have any proof of that, Bill?
23:25No, not yet.
23:26But think about it.
23:27There are so many of them.
23:28How else could they have hidden it for so long?
23:30So many what?
23:31Priests!
23:32Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, and Brian Darcy James
23:36portray reporters who spend months interviewing survivors,
23:40examining court records, and obtaining internal church documents.
23:43Their reporting reveals that church leaders knew about abusive priests
23:47and repeatedly moved them rather than stopping them.
23:49They knew, and they let it happen to kids!
23:54Okay?
23:54It could have been you.
23:56It could have been me.
23:57It could have been any of us.
23:59We gotta nail these scumbags.
24:01We gotta show people that nobody can get away with this.
24:04Not a priest, or a cardinal, or a freaking pope!
24:07The Globe's 2002 investigation won the Pulitzer Prize for public service
24:11and helped trigger worldwide scrutiny of the church's actions.
24:15More expose than traditional whistleblower story,
24:18the film shows how painstaking reporting can force powerful institutions into the light.
24:23Both kids were abused.
24:25Jamaica Plain, two weeks ago.
24:31Keep doing your work, Mr. Zendez.
24:35Hello!
24:36Number 4.
24:37On the Waterfront
24:38Waterfront Crime Commission.
24:40What's that?
24:41Directed by Ilya Kazan and based on his own often-criticized testimony
24:44before the House Un-American Activities Committee,
24:47this classic stars screen legend Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy.
24:50The commission, your subpoena?
24:52I know you got a subpoena.
24:54Well, I don't know.
24:56It's like carrying a monkey around on your back.
24:58A humble dock worker who stands up to his union due to the rampant violence and corruption.
25:03They're asking me to put the finger on my own brother.
25:06Packed with raw emotion and intense performances,
25:09this is one film that honors the whistleblower like no other.
25:12He wanted my philosophy of life.
25:18Do it to him before he does it to you.
25:20Often cited as one of the best American films ever,
25:23and with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes,
25:26On the Waterfront's story and characters stay with you long after you watch it.
25:30You don't understand.
25:32I could have had class.
25:34I could have been a contender.
25:36I could have been somebody.
25:39Instead of a bum.
25:41Which is what I am.
25:43Let's face it.
25:48It was you, Charlie.
25:50Number 3.
25:51Serpico.
25:52I haven't even got your cock out.
25:54Put it in the report.
25:56When you're divided between your desire to change the system
25:59and the prospect of becoming a squealer,
26:00what do you do?
26:02I could work alone.
26:03That's the thing, see.
26:04If I could just get work alone.
26:07But they don't like that, see.
26:08They don't want that.
26:09They want to suck you in.
26:09This is the dilemma that faces Al Pacino's Serpico,
26:13an honest cop who is horrified to discover widespread dishonesty,
26:17bribery, and violence in the New York police force.
26:19Stay the f*** out of this!
26:21After he decides to go undercover to expose the corruption,
26:24he finds himself at odds with some very powerful people.
26:27Maybe this is what it's all about.
26:29Maybe I should take my gold shield and forget it.
26:31Praised for everything from its direction to its screenplay
26:34to its truthful performances,
26:36this crime drama is as compelling as it is hard to watch.
26:40I can't wait for Delaney to call,
26:41and I can't play their game anymore.
26:43I'm right in the middle.
26:43I can't take it.
26:44You mean to say the commissioner didn't get in touch with me?
26:45No, he didn't get in touch with me.
26:46Not a word.
26:47No investigation.
26:48No undercover work.
26:55A political thriller that sees Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star as the real-life journalists
27:00who helped uncover the Watergate scandal.
27:02How much can you tell me about Deep Throat?
27:06How much do you need to know?
27:08This movie is all about the events that led to Richard Nixon's resignation from the presidency.
27:12I don't think the president knew anything about it.
27:15Is it possible that some of his people might have known?
27:17I'm not sure about that.
27:19Do you think the truth will ever come out at the trial?
27:21That's another thing I'm not sure about.
27:22Starting with what seems to be a minor burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters,
27:27the lies, cover-ups, and questions escalate as the burglars' ties with the CIA are discovered.
27:33Listen, I'm tired of your chicken shit games.
27:37I don't want hints.
27:39I need to know what you know.
27:41Combining a gripping story with actual investigative journalism,
27:45this is one film that captures the true essence of what really happened in the early 70s.
27:50Get out your notebook.
27:51There's more.
27:58Your lies are in danger.
28:00Number 1.
28:01The Insider
28:02Yeah.
28:04Lowell.
28:05Jeffrey Wygant.
28:06This is the true story of a whistleblower whose exposure of the truth
28:10led to a $246 billion settlement of suits against the tobacco industry by every state in the USA.
28:17He's a corporate officer.
28:19You never get whistleblowers from Fortune 500 companies.
28:21This guy is the ultimate insider.
28:23It also happens to be one heck of a movie.
28:26Russell Crowe is perfectly cast as the man who blew the lid off the industry's secrets.
28:30We are in the nicotine delivery business.
28:33And that's what cigarettes are for.
28:35Delivery device for nicotine.
28:37A delivery device for nicotine.
28:39Put it in your mouth, light it up, and you're going to get your fix.
28:42You're going to get your fix.
28:43And Al Pacino is spectacular as the CBS producer who brought it to 60 Minutes,
28:48and therefore, the world.
28:50I'm staying right here, doing my job, fighting to get my show on the air.
28:54You don't like it, hey, I tell you what, fire my ass.
28:58With seven Academy Award nominations and one of Crowe's most brilliant portrayals,
29:02it's an inspiring story for anyone who had to bite the bullet for truth, liberty, and justice.
29:07And he's only the key witness in the biggest public health reform issue,
29:11maybe the biggest, most expensive corporate malfeasance case in U.S. history.
29:16And Jeffrey Wigand, who's out on a limb, does he go on television and tell the truth?
29:21Yes.
29:22Is it newsworthy?
29:24Yes.
29:25Are we going to air it?
29:26Of course not.
29:28What other whistleblowing cases do you think would make for thrilling movies?
29:31Let us know in the comments.
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