XY Chelsea

Original title: XY Chelsea (United Kingdom, 2019)

Director: Tim Travers Hawkins

Cast: Chelsea Manning, Nancy Hollander, Chase Strangio, Lisa Rein, Vincent J. Ward

Genre: Documentary

Plot: In January 2010, Bradley Manning, a US intelligence officer and analyst in Iraq, downloads an enormous amount of confidential data proving crimes and violence of the US army against prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. He passes it to Wikileaks, which makes it public. It is the most spectacular case of disclosure of state secrets in the history of the USA. Manning is sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. There, he announces that he wants to transition and changes his name to Chelsea.
After seven years in prison, President Barack Obama commuted the sentence, recognizing it was disproportionate to the facts, and the violent treatment Chelsea Manning suffered in prison.