Snowden is a recorded work.
Snowden is a 2016 American-German biographical political thriller film directed by Oliver Stone and written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald , based on the books The Snowden Files by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena . The film was theatrically released in the United States on September 16 , 2016 , by Open Road Films and on September 22 in Germany .