Hack
Movies about hacking and IT security
List activity
6.9K views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
28 titles
- DirectorJeremy ZerechakStarsJulia ConcolinoLorrie CranorJennifer GranickCODE 2600 documents the Info-Tech Age, told by the events and people who helped build and manipulate it. It explores the impact this new connectivity has on our ability to remain human while maintaining our personal privacy and security.
- DirectorJoe KawasakiStarsEmily SomersTravis Aaron WadeMartin CoppingA female hacker races against time to figure out the code on an iPhone that is glued to her hand.
- DirectorIain SoftleyStarsJonny Lee MillerAngelina JolieJesse BradfordTeenage hackers discover a criminal conspiracy with plans to use a computer virus that will capsize five oil tankers.
- DirectorPeter HowittStarsRyan PhillippeTim RobbinsRachael Leigh CookA computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.
- DirectorJoe ChappelleStarsSkeet UlrichRussell WongAngela FeatherstoneThis film is based on the story of the capture of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick.
- DirectorAshley SchwartauStarsChris DarbroScott DavidsonFleaA 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.
- DirectorBrian KnappenbergerStarsAnon2WorldAnonyopsJulian AssangeA documentary on the workings and beliefs of the self-described "hacktivist" collective, Anonymous.
- DirectorMichael MannStarsChris HemsworthViola DavisTang WeiA furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.
- DirectorKevin AndersonStarsBen AndersonSuzanne BarrKathy BowlenIn the late 1980s two Melbourne teenage computer hackers known as Electron and Phoenix stole a restricted computer security list called 'Zardoz' and used it to break into some of the world's most classified and supposedly secure computer systems. So fast and widespread was the attack no-one could work out how it had happened, until one of the hackers called the New York Times to brag about it. Ten years after their arrest, this dramatized documentary reveals not only how they did it but why, taking us headlong into the clandestine, risky but intoxicating world of the computer underground.
- DirectorRobert ConnollyStarsRachel GriffithsAnthony LaPagliaAlex WilliamsA look at the early career of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.
- DirectorAlex GibneyStarsJulian AssangeAdrian LamoJohn 'FuzzFace' McMahonA documentary that details the creation of Julian Assange's controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history.
- DirectorJ.C. Cameron BruecknerStarsAlanna FoxMarsha BlackburnAaron SwartzWar for the Web demystifies the physical infrastructure of the Internet and uses that as a basis to explore the issues of ownership and competition in the broadband marketplace, privacy, and security.
- DirectorJason Scott SadofskyStarsDead AddictBrian BaskinRyan ClarkeDEFCON is the world's largest hacking conference, held in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2012 it was held for the 20th time. The conference has strict no-filming policies, but for DEFCON 20, a documentary crew was allowed full access to the event. The film follows the four days of the conference, the events and people (attendees and staff), and covers history and philosophy behind DEFCON's success and unique experience.
- DirectorBrian KnappenbergerStarsAaron SwartzTim Berners-LeeCindy CohnThe story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.
- DirectorSimon KloseStarsGottfrid SvartholmPeter SundeFredrik NeijAn intellectual freedoms documentary based around the interpersonal triumphs, and defeats of the three main characters against the largest industry in the known universe. The media industry.
- DirectorA.N. OtherStarsJulian AssangeKen DayDaniel EllsbergUnbiased and informative documentary on Julian Assange, Wikileaks and more.
- DirectorSamuel VartekStarsJohn ArquillaCraig CalefJohn DraperThis film both follows the hacking adventures of famous hacker Adrian Lamo, and uses them as a microcosm for the macrocosm of struggles faced by emerging trends of thought - from the criminal to the philosophical.
- DirectorEmmanuel GoldsteinStarsMark AbeneEd CummingsRobert DarlingtonA feature length documentary about the Free Kevin movement and the hacker world.
- DirectorFabrice FlorinStarsBill AtkinsonBruce BaumgartStewart BrandAll interviews in this documentary were shot over a long weekend at a 1984 hacker conference by the Whole Earth Catalog editors Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelley in Sausalito, California. The event itself (the hacker conference) was inspired by Steven Levy's classic book "Hackers - Heroes of the Computer Revolution".
- DirectorRalph LeeStarsIan MurphySteve Wozniak
- DirectorBill CondonStarsBenedict CumberbatchDaniel BrühlCarice van HoutenA dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.
- DirectorSteve BannonStarsSaul AlinskyAnthony AverestBill AyersAn alternate look at Occupy Wall Street camps around the country.
- DirectorAnnaliza SavageStarsCris ThomasDrunkfuxDan FarmerDocumentary about the early to mid 90s computer underground.
- DirectorRalph LeeStarsJohn DraperKevin MitnickDenny TeresiA history of hacking focusing on Captain Crunch, Steve Wozniak and Kevin Mitnick.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsEdward SnowdenGlenn GreenwaldWilliam BinneyA documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
- DirectorHans-Christian SchmidStarsAugust DiehlFabian BuschDieter LandurisWhen the orphaned Karl Koch and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers, an acquaintance senses that there is money in computer cracking - and travels to east Berlin to try to contact the KGB.
- DirectorRobin BatesStarsClifford StollIn 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, as is told in his best-selling book _ The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage_ (1989). Stoll has become a celebrity for being, as he terms himself, "a computer contrarian."
- StarsRobert X. CringelySteve JobsDouglas AdamsThree part documentary series that tells the story of the birth of the personal computer, with the candid recollections of PC pioneers, like Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.