This World: The Cyber Arms Race
Single-episode BBC documentary by Jane Corbin, broadcast 2018, on the early-2010s Stuxnet aftermath and the wider state-on-state cyberweapons trade.
- Creators
- Jane Corbin
- Years
- 2018–2018
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 1 episode
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
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Watch this if
Viewers who want a one-hour BBC-style briefing on the state of the cyberweapons market circa 2018, anchored by Corbin's reporter access to former NSA and Israeli officials. Useful as a single-sitting introduction.
Skip this if
Anyone who has watched Zero Days (Gibney) or read Countdown to Zero Day (Zetter); the documentary covers the same ground at lower depth. Specialists will find it cursory.
Key takeaways
- Corbin's interview with Gabi Ashkenazi (former IDF Chief of Staff) is the strongest single piece of source material in the documentary and worth the runtime alone.
- The 2018 framing means the documentary now reads as a prelude to NotPetya and Sandworm-era operations rather than current state-of-the-art.
- Best as a primer for non-specialists who don't have time for the Gibney film.
Notes
Pair with Zero Days (Gibney) for the deeper Stuxnet documentary and with The Perfect Weapon (Maggio) for the post-Stuxnet decade. BBC's broader This World documentary strand is worth searching for adjacent geopolitical content. A useful one-hour brief; not a replacement for the longer-form sources.