Cybersecurity documentaries

Ten documentaries that explain how the digital world is attacked, defended and governed.

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01
Zero Days
Alex Gibney, 2016
The definitive film on Stuxnet and state-sponsored cyber weapons.
02
Citizenfour
Laura Poitras, 2014
Edward Snowden’s disclosures as they happened, in a Hong Kong hotel room.
03
The Great Hack
Karim Amer & Jehane Noujaim, 2019
Cambridge Analytica and how personal data became a political weapon.
04
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
Brian Knappenberger, 2012
The rise of Anonymous and the culture of hacktivism.
05
The Internet’s Own Boy
Brian Knappenberger, 2014
Aaron Swartz, open access and the limits of computer-crime law.
06
Deep Web
Alex Winter, 2015
Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht and the first wave of dark-web markets.
07
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Werner Herzog, 2016
A thoughtful, often unsettling look at what the internet has done to us.
08
The Social Dilemma
Jeff Orlowski, 2020
Why persuasive design and data harvesting are a security problem too.
09
Downloaded
Alex Winter, 2013
Napster and the moment peer-to-peer networks changed the internet.
10
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web
Annie Goldson, 2017
Megaupload, extradition and the jurisdiction problem of online crime.

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