Killswitch (2014)

The Internet is under attack. This award-winning documentary explores the threat Internet censorship imposes on free speech, innovation, and democracy.

Director:

Ali Akbarzadeh

Writers:

Christopher Dollar, Ali Akbarzadeh (co-writer)

Stars:

Lawrence Lessig, Tim Wu, Peter Ludlow

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview:
Lawrence Lessig	...	Self
Tim Wu	...	Self
Peter Ludlow	...	Self

Storyline

The Internet is under attack. This award-winning documentary explores the threat Internet censorship imposes on free speech, innovation, and democracy.

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Plot Keywords:

internet | 

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Genres:

Documentary | Drama

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

The section of the documentary that shows a clip of an interview between a female interviewer and George Orwell was actually from a BBC 4 dramatization of an actual interview. The TV movie was called, George Orwell: A Life in Pictures (2003), and was filmed 53 years after Orwell's death in 1950.

Orwell is played by actor Chris Langham, and the interviewer by Rebecca Front.

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Connections

Features Godzilla (1954)

User Reviews

Net Neutrality and Beyond

The Internet is under attack. This award-winning documentary explores the threat Internet censorship imposes on free speech, innovation, and democracy.

While not an expert on the Internet, I feel I have a pretty god handle on technology. This film still taught me a few things about certain laws and regulations that affect how the online world works, and how much influence the MPAA has. (And I apparently forgot that Chris Dodd was involved.) The reason I can't give the movie a full endorsement is that it is so obviously one-sided. I tend to think it is on the right side, but even so, a great documentary should be a little bit more fair. There is no attempt at an argument about the violation of ownership rights.

Although the focus is "censorship", we also dip into the idea of information monopoly (the Western Union and AT&T examples), and even the private funding of public campaigns, which seems like an entirely different issue. But for Lawrence Lessig, it is very much inter-related.

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 October 2014 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Akorn Entertainment, CineCity Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

72 min

Color:

Color