On June 25, 2024, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked free after reaching a deal with the US government. Does this unexpected conclusion to years of criminal charges and imprisonment mark a step forward for press freedom?

Turkish journalist Can Dündar, himself once imprisoned on similar charges in Turkey and now living in exile in Germany, along with co-director Sarah Mabrouk, closely followed Assange’s case for the six months leading up to his release. Dündar considers it the most significant press freedom trial of this century. In this documentary, rather than centering on the polarizing figure of Assange, Dündar focuses on one of his most controversial releases: Collateral Murder, a video depicting potential war crimes by US soldiers in a 2007 Baghdad attack during the Iraq war, showing journalists and Iraqi civilians being fired upon from a US Apache helicopter.