Industry Insiders Blow the Whistle on the Celebrity Movie Archive.

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Michael Mann’s tobacco industry whistle - blower drama belongs to a distinct moment in the history of truth, American politics, the press, and corporate power. Al Pacino in The Insider, 1999. " The Insider " offers an account of how the program wound up sidestepping the confidentiality agreement to interview Wigand and exposing him to threats of retaliation, only to bail out on. Bergman says Wigand has to decide for himself whether to blow the whistle on big tobacco. Bergman returns to CBS Headquarters in New York City, where he and Wallace discuss Wigand’s situation and the potential damage he could do to Big Tobacco. In 1995, a courageous act of whistleblowing shook the tobacco industry to its core. Jeffrey Wigand, a former executive at Brown & Williamson, exposed the truth about cigarette manufacturers knowingly increasing the addictiveness of their products. And instead of an unscrupulous dealmaker, the so-called “ insider ” is Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower with more ethics than a room full of compliance officers. Played brilliantly by Russell Crowe, Wigand risks everything—his career, his reputation, and even his personal safety—to expose the truth about Big Tobacco. Assorted movies from the 2000’s.