Movies: Hacker

Xeno, Christine, and Bivak spend their days and nights together in dimly lit rooms cast in the glow of shadows by their computer monitors. The subculture of LAN Parties, IM'ing and hacking confuse Xeno's parents as to why their son spends so much tim...

Italy’s biggest political party, the Five Star Movement, promotes direct democracy through internet voting. Five Star Movement uses a digital platform named Rousseau, that allows Movement’s members to vote online and express their opinion on various ...

Hackers in Wonderland is a 2000 documentary film, produced and directed by Russell Barnes, about hackers in the United Kingdom....

Hacks is a 73 minute European documentary exploring what nature of "Hacking" is in a social context. In HACKS, the Austrian multimedia artist Christine Bader examines who is the computer hacker and what moves him or her. Is the hacker a Robin Hood in...

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A hacker blackmails a small town....

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....

Melissa lives with her sick mom and works a repetitive job at a supermarket. She belongs to a forum of White Hat Hackers who get paid to solve cybercrime cases, all the while investigating her father’s mysterious disappearance. When an old acquaintan...

For years now, the Kremlin has been systematically trying to use well-trained hackers for its own benefit. In exchange for freedom and protection, they do the dirty work of the state, interfering in other countries’ elections and penetrating governme...

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Discover the intoxicating world of hacking through the eyes of Michael “Mafiaboy” Calce, who, at 15, was involved in one of the most egregious and widely covered cybercrimes in North America. As hacking becomes more sophisticated and widespread, and ...

A feature-length documentary about the Free Kevin movement and the hacker world....

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The documentary Pirat@ge traces the history of the Internet through the testimonies of those who built it: the hackers. It delves into the concerns of Generation Y, analyzing their networked communication methods, cultural consumption habits, and the...

Guardians of the New World introduces us to the world of hacker culture. Emerging from the 70’s counterculture around conceptions of personal freedom, decentralisation of power and sharing, hacking really came to prominence with the emergence of the ...

A professional perverted hacker meets an even more professional hacker in a video call.....

Nowadays hacking is a well known phenomenon. Almost weekly we see news items about networks that are attacked. The trading of access to ones personal computer and webcam is less widely known, but the results can affect a computer user deeply personal...

Described as a heist thriller that becomes “a powerful examination of systemic prejudice and economic inequality,” the stranger-than-fiction story follows Smith’s journey from teenage hacker to financial system mastermind. By 18, she had already orch...

This documentary looks at the computer hacker community in New York City of today, its meetings and conferences, political annotations, and historically explores the roots of the original definition 'hacking' amongst the model train enthusiasts at MI...

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