SAN FRANCISCO — The debate over National Security Agency spying has gone Hollywood.

The director Oliver Stone and the actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and John Cusack appear alongside Representative John Conyers Jr., a Michigan Democrat; the Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig; Daniel Ellsberg; and four government whistle-blowers in a new video calling for an end to mass N.S.A. surveillance.

The video, which was produced by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, draws comparisons between recent revelations by the N.S.A. whistle-blower Edward J. Snowden and crimes conducted under the Nixon administration.

And it doesn’t exactly let American technology companies off easy. “We have also learned of the large-scale collaboration with telecom giants, Internet companies and service providers,” the actor Wil Wheaton (who played Wesley Crusher in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and is a popular figure in tech circles) tells viewers as a shot of the now infamous Prism PowerPoint slide, listing Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other companies, comes into focus.

Those companies have all said that they have no choice but to comply with government orders. But counterparts that shut down their services rather than comply with government requests for user information are hailed as heroes.

“Some concerned e-mail providers have chosen to shut their doors rather than cave to government subpoenas to hand over their users data,” the artist Molly Crabapple tells viewers, referring to Lavabit and Silent Circle, two e-mail service providers that recently shuttered their e-mail services.

The video was directed by Brian Knappenberger, who also directed “We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists.” It was timed for an anti-surveillance rally in Washington this Saturday, on the 12th anniversary of the Patriot Act.

“This is the moment for a large-scale debate on the future of this thing we all love, the Internet, the way we communicate, our relationship with our government and how technology and its progress can blend with more traditional notions of privacy, liberty and democracy,” Mr. Knappenberger said.