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Woes of a whistleblower
A new documentary details the trials and tribulations of Chelsea Manning — and they're still not over, says MARIA DUARTE
FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
New releases from Paul Weller, Wet Leg, and Dino Saluzzi
PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
XY Chelsea (15)
Directed by Tim Travers Hawkins
“IF YOU had free rein over classified networks and you saw incredible things, awful things. What would you do?”
This is one of the most poignant questions explored in this eye-opening look at the life and career of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, a trans woman soldier in the US army who, having witnessed such “awful things,” instigated the largest leak of secrets in US history.
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