Movie
Where to Watch A Good American (2015) in the US
- 2015
- TV-14
- 1h 40m
- 7.3IMDb
- 80%Rotten Tomatoes
- 63Metascore
A Good American is available with a subscription, free with ads, free with a participating library card, or to rent in the United States.
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What it's about
A Good American tells the story of the best code-breaker the USA ever had and how he and a small team within NSA created a surveillance tool that could pick up any electronic signal on earth, filter it for targets and render results in real-time while keeping the privacy as demanded by the US constitution. The tool was perfect - except for one thing: it was way too cheap. Therefor NSA leadership, who had fallen into the hands of industry, dumped it - three weeks prior to 9/11. In a secret test-run of the program against the pre-9/11-NSA database in early 2002 the program immediately found the terrorists. This is the story of former Technical director of NSA, Bill Binney, and a program called ThinThread.
Cast and crew
- Director
- Friedrich Moser
- Writer
- Friedrich Moser
- Starring
- William Binney, Jesselyn Radack, Kirk Wiebe
Details
- Release date
- Feb 3, 2017
- Language
- English
- Country
- Austria
- Awards
- 1 win & 8 nominations total
Where to Watch A Good American (2015) in the US — common questions
- Where to watch A Good American in the United States?
- A Good American is available with a subscription, free with ads, free with a participating library card, or to rent in the United States. Watch the movie with a subscription on Prime Video (HD). Watch the movie free with ads on Fandango at Home (HD), Plex Channel (HD), Plex Player (HD), Pluto TV, Prime Video (HD), The Roku Channel (HD), Tubi TV, and YouTube (HD). Watch the movie free with a participating library card on hoopla and Kanopy (HD). Rent the movie on Apple TV Store, Fandango at Home, and Prime Video.
- Can I stream A Good American or do I have to rent it in the United States?
- Watch the movie with a subscription on Prime Video (HD). Rent the movie on Apple TV Store, Fandango at Home, and Prime Video.
- Can I watch A Good American for free in the United States?
- Watch the movie free with ads on Fandango at Home (HD), Plex Channel (HD), Plex Player (HD), Pluto TV, Prime Video (HD), The Roku Channel (HD), Tubi TV, and YouTube (HD). Watch the movie free with a participating library card on hoopla and Kanopy (HD).
