WIRED- Year's Most Interesting Documentaries

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We Pick the Year’s 5 Most Intriguing Documentaries

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• 12.26.14  |  
 
• 7:00 AM  |  
 
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Most documentaries go back and piece together history after the fact. Citizenfour chronicles history as it happened. Director Laura Poitras was one of the handful of people NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden contacted to help him reveal the information he wanted the public to know, so she was there filming as the leaks happened. 
 COURTESY LAURA POITRAS 

If you care about technology and movies, which is to say if you’re a reader of this here website, then you were probably pretty excited about Citizenfour. That documentary pulled the curtain back on what happened with whistleblower Edward Snowden’s NSA leak in a big way. But that was just one of a few great documentaries that hit theaters this year. There were also docs on the life of Aaron Swartz, director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s attempt to adapt Dune, and the quest to find the “God Particle.” Here are a few of our personal favorite docs of the last year.