The Fifth Estate is a fictionalised account of the Wikileaks saga. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who leaked confidential information on the US military's operations in Afghanistan and Iraq to newspapers including the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel. The film is partially based on Guardian writers David Leigh and Luke Harding's book WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy and has already been described by Assange as 'massive propaganda attack' . The Fifth Estate is released in the UK later this year