AgentsofChaos,atwo-partdocumentaryfromdirectorAlexGibney(HBO’sTheInventor:OutforBloodinSiliconValleyandGoingClear:ScientologyandthePrisonofBelief)examinesRussia’sinterferenceinthe2016U.S.presidentialelection.Featuringinterviewswithkeyplayersandexperts,classifiedinformationleakedbyinsidesources,andmore,thefilmdisentanglesthecomplexdetailsofRussia’sinterferenceinthe2016electionandhighlightsthefrighteningvulnerabilitiesinAmerica’spoliticalprocess.Thefilmisaproductofyearsofreporting.Withnever-before-seenfootageinsidetheRussiantrollfarms,andvideosunearthedfromtheRussiandeepweb,thefilmdigsdeepintoRussia’ssophisticatedplanstounderminedemocracy,raisingthealarmfortheAmericanpublic,butalsoprovingthatthese“agentsofchaos”weren’tRussiansalone;theywerealsokeyplayersintheUnitedStateswho,throughvenality,corruptionorcircumstance,furtheredPutin’sgoals,withavulnerableandunsuspectingAmericanpublicastheirtarget.
AgentsofChaos,atwo-partdocumentaryfromdirectorAlexGibney(HBO’sTheInventor:OutforBloodinSiliconValleyandGoingClear:ScientologyandthePrisonofBelief)examinesRussia’sinterferenceinthe2016U.S.presidentialelection.Featuringinterviewswithkeyplayersandexperts,classifiedinformationleakedbyinsidesources,andmore,thefilmdisentanglesthecomplexdetailsofRussia’sinterferenceinthe2016electionandhighlightsthefrighteningvulnerabilitiesinAmerica’spoliticalprocess.Thefilmisaproductofyearsofreporting.Withnever-before-seenfootageinsidetheRussiantrollfarms,andvideosunearthedfromtheRussiandeepweb,thefilmdigsdeepintoRussia’ssophisticatedplanstounderminedemocracy,raisingthealarmfortheAmericanpublic,butalsoprovingthatthese“agentsofchaos”weren’tRussiansalone;theywerealsokeyplayersintheUnitedStateswho,throughvenality,corruptionorcircumstance,furtheredPutin’sgoals,withavulnerableandunsuspectingAmericanpublicastheirtarget.
