Cybersecurity films, reviewed honestly.

Bill Condon's dramatization of WikiLeaks' early years, with Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange and Daniel Brühl as Daniel Domscheit-Berg, based on Domscheit-Berg's memoir and David Leigh's reporting.

Netflix documentary tracing the Cambridge Analytica scandal through Brittany Kaiser, David Carroll and Carole Cadwalladr, on how psychometric ad targeting was deployed at political scale.

Biographical drama on Alan Turing's work breaking Enigma at Bletchley Park, based on Andrew Hodges' biography. Compresses and dramatizes the historical record but introduces general audiences to wartime cryptanalysis.

Brian Knappenberger's documentary on Aaron Swartz — RSS, Reddit, Creative Commons, SOPA, the JSTOR download, the federal prosecution that drove him to suicide at 26.

John Maggio's HBO documentary adaptation of David Sanger's book of the same name, covering the post-Stuxnet decade of state-on-state cyber operations: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and the US response.

A docudrama hybrid in which former Big Tech executives — ex-Google design ethicist Tristan Harris, ex-Facebook ad-targeting engineers — argue that the attention economy is corrosive by design, intercut with a fictional family drama illustrating the claims.

A teenager dials into a back-end at NORAD and almost starts a nuclear war. The film that made the US government take computer security seriously and credited as inspiration for the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Brian Knappenberger's documentary on Anonymous, from 4chan-era Project Chanology against Scientology through Operation Payback, the HBGary breach, and the FBI takedowns that ended the era's most visible figures.

Alex Gibney's investigative documentary reconstructing Stuxnet — the joint US/Israeli operation against Iranian uranium-enrichment centrifuges — through Symantec / Kaspersky reverse engineers and former NSA insiders.