His story is told in the award-winning 2014 documentary Citizenfour, which won the Academy Award in its category. Broadcast on HBO on February 23, 2015, it might be rebroadcast in the days ahead. You can also see it, thanks to the stellar sleuthing of Jorge Ramirez, at this page. Jorge writes: "After clicking on the movie title, the links should appear on the left hand side of the page. Go through these links to find which works best for your computer."
A New York Times editorial claims the documents Snowden leaked show "the vast scope of the National Security Agency’s reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe, as it collects information about their phone calls, their email messages, their friends and contacts, how they spend their days and where they spend their nights. The public learned in great detail how the agency has exceeded its mandate and abused its authority, prompting outrage at kitchen tables and at the desks of Congress, which may finally begin to limit these practices."
You can read about Snowden's life at bio. There are also numerous Snowden video interviews and reports at NBC News. Thanks to Jones Ou--a big thank you!--for providing a link to a conversation Snowden had on Reddit, Feb. 23rd, 2015. Click on this to read the conversation. The PBS Newshour broadcast this report on Snowden and Citizenfour on February 13, 2015.
The trailer for Citizenfour, the 2014 documentary on Snowden, appears above. Laura Poitras, the director of Citizenfour, was contacted by Snowden in early 2013 and assisted him in leaking the NSA documents. You can read about her at The New Yorker and The New York Times.
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