CODE 2600 documents the rise of the Information Technology Age as told through the events and people who helped build and manipulate it.
Casts Julia Concolino, Lorrie Cranor, Jennifer Granick, Phil Lapsley, Gideon Lenkey, Eric Michaud, Jeff Moss, Marcus Ranum, Vartan Sarkissian, Bruce Schneier
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Hacking Democracy
The New Radical
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
Freedom Downtime
Revolution OS
In the Realm of the Hackers
Hackers Are People Too
HAK_MTL
The KGB, the Computer and Me
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard
The Crazy Che
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
The 414s
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
Hackers: Outlaws and Angels
All Creatures Welcome
Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld
My Sextortion Diary
Zero Days
Unauthorized Access
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Hacking Democracy
IMDB 7.5 | Nov , 2006
Documentary film investigating allegations of election fraud during the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Electronic voting machines count approximately 90% of America's votes in county, state and federal elections. The technology is also increasingly being used across the world, including in Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and Latin America. The film uncovers incendiary evidence from the trash cans of Texas to the ballot boxes of Ohio, exposing secrecy, votes in the trash, hackable software and election officials rigging the presidential recount.Ultimately proving our votes can be stolen without a trace "Hacking Democracy" culminates in the famous 'Hursti Hack'; a duel between the Diebold voting machines and a computer hacker from Finland - with America's democracy at stake.The New Radical
IMDB 5.2 | Jan , 2017
Uncompromising millennial radicals from the United States and the United Kingdom attack the system through dangerous technological means, which evolves into a high-stakes game with world authorities in the midst of a dramatically changing political landscape.The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
IMDB 7.9 | Jun , 2014
Programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz achieved groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing. His passion for open access ensnared him in a legal nightmare that ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26.Freedom Downtime
IMDB 7.1 | Jan , 2001
A feature-length documentary about the Free Kevin movement and the hacker world.Revolution OS
IMDB 6.9 | Mar , 2001
REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the Open Source movement.In the Realm of the Hackers
IMDB 6.3 | May , 2003
In The Realm of the Hackers is a documentary about the prominent hacker community, centered in Melbourne, Australia in the late 80's to early 1990. The storyline is centered around the Australian teenagers going by the hacker names "Electron" and "Phoenix", who were members of an elite computer hacking group called The Realm and hacked into some of the most secure computer networks in the world, including those of the US Naval Research Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a government lab charged with the security of the US nuclear stockpile, and NASA.Hackers Are People Too
IMDB 6.4 | Aug , 2008
A portrait of the hacking community. In an effort to challenge preconceived notions and media-driven stereotypes Hackers Are People Too lets hackers speak for themselves and introduce their community to the public.HAK_MTL
IMDB 7.1 | May , 2019
Does privacy still exist in 2019? In less than a generation, the internet has become a mass surveillance machine based on one simple mindset: If it's free, you're the product. Our information is captured, stored and made accessible to corporations and governments across the world. To the hacker community, Big Brother is real and only a technological battle can defeat him.The KGB, the Computer and Me
IMDB 7.8 | Oct , 1990
In 1986, astronomer turned computer scientist Clifford Stoll had just started working on a computer system at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory when he noticed a 75-cent discrepancy between the charges printed by two accounting programs responsible for charging people for machine use. Intrigued, he deduced that the system was being hacked, and he determined to find the culprit. This is the re-enactment of how he tracked down KGB cracker Markus Hess through the Ethernet to Hannover, Germany.TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard
IMDB 7.2 | Feb , 2013
TPB AFK is a documentary about three computer addicts who redefined the world of media distribution with their hobby homepage The Pirate Bay. How did Tiamo, a beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree hugging eco activist and Anakata – a paranoid hacker libertarian – get the White House to threaten the Swedish government with trade sanctions? TPB AFK explores what Hollywood’s most hated pirates go through on a personal level.The Crazy Che
IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 2015
The incredible story of Bill Gaede, an Argentinian engineer, programmer… and Cold War spy.Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
IMDB 6.6 | Mar , 2016
Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.The 414s
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 2015
THE 414s tells the story of the first widely recognized computer hackers, a group of Milwaukee teenagers who gained notoriety in 1983 when they broke into dozens of high-profile computer systems, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a classified nuclear weapons research facility.We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
IMDB 7.1 | Jan , 2012
Takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film explores early hacktivist groups like Cult of the Dead Cow and Electronic Disturbance Theater, then moves to Anonymous' raucous beginnings on the website 4chan. Through interviews with current members, people recently returned from prison or facing trial, writers, academics, activists and major players in various "raids," the documentary traces Anonymous’ evolution from merry pranksters to a full-blown movement with a global reach, the most transformative civil disobedience of our time.Hackers: Outlaws and Angels
IMDB 7.8 | Oct , 2002
This program reveals the daily battle between the Internet’s outlaws and the hackers who oppose them by warding off system attacks, training IT professionals and police officers, and watching cyberspace for signs of imminent infowar. Through interviews with frontline personnel from the Department of Defense, NYPD’s computer crime squad, private detective firm Kroll Associates, X-Force Threat Analysis Service, and several notorious crackers, the program provides penetrating insights into the millions of hack attacks that occur annually in the U.S.—including one that affected the phone bills of millions and another that left confidential details of the B-1 stealth bomber in the hands of teenagers. The liabilities of wireless networks, the Code Red worm, and online movie piracy are also discussed. A Discovery Channel Production. (51 minutes)All Creatures Welcome
IMDB 9 | Apr , 2018
All Creatures Welcome explores the world of hackers and nerds at the events of the Chaos Computer Club, Europe's largest hacker association. The film dispels common clichés and draws a utopian picture of a possible society in the digital age.Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld
IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 2023
This documentary reveals how a group of hackers powered the darkest corners of the internet from a Cold War-era bunker in a quiet German tourist town.My Sextortion Diary
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2024
Pati, a young film producer, is fighting to carve out a professional career in the film industry. It is May 2019 when her laptop is stolen during a business trip in Madrid. Two months after, an anonymous Hacker accesses all the stored data in the stolen device and finds three very private photos of Pati. He threatens that if he doesn’t receive $2,400 he will mass-mail the pictures to all her work contacts in order to ruin her professional reputation. The shame, anger and distress caused by the ineffectiveness of the legal forces lead Pati to set out on her own investigation to stop the Hacker and regain control and power over her privacy.Zero Days
IMDB 7.3 | Jul , 2016
Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli governments, this malware was designed to specifically sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme. However, the complex computer worm ended up not only infecting its intended target but also spreading uncontrollably.Unauthorized Access
IMDB 7.8 | Dec , 1994
Unauthorized Access is one of the earliest independent documentaries on the subject of the computer underground. Shot in 15 cities and 4 countries, this documentary offers an impressive array of topics dealing with hacking culture, such as phreaking, lockpicking, conspiracy theories, and ninja clad dumpster divers.