Snowden's Great Escape
★ 7.2 · 2015 · 58m · Documentary
Tells the story of how Edward Snowden managed to evade capture by the US. For the first time Snowden tells the story of how he managed to escape so that not to have to spend the rest of his life in an American prison.
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