The Fifth Estate is the thrilling and dramatic true story of WikiLeaks. Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful, soon developing into an organisation shining a light on government secrets and corporate crimes across the globe.

As WikiLeaks becomes increasingly influential so the stakes are raised, asking what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society and what is the price of exposing them?