01Tech business
2010 · Feature film
The Social Network
Facebook's early growth puts friendship, ownership and ambition under pressure.
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02Tech business
2015 · Feature film
Steve Jobs
Three product launches frame a drama about Apple's co-founder and the people around him.
03Tech business
2013 · Feature film
Jobs
A dramatized portrait follows Steve Jobs from early experiments to leadership at Apple.
04Tech business
1999 · TV film
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Apple and Microsoft rise as personal computing becomes a commercial battleground.
05Tech business
2013 · Feature film
The Internship
Two salesmen enter a technology internship and struggle to find their place.
06Tech business
1999 · Feature film
Office Space
Frustrated software workers rebel against a workplace dominated by bureaucracy.
07Tech business
2018 · Feature film
The Hummingbird Project
Cousins attempt to build a faster data connection for financial trading.
08Tech business
2023 · Feature film
BlackBerry
A Canadian technology company races from breakthrough devices to fierce smartphone competition.
09Tech business
2001 · Documentary
Startup.com
A documentary follows an internet startup through growth, conflict and financial pressure.
10Tech business
2018 · Documentary
General Magic
A documentary revisits a team whose ambitious handheld-computing ideas arrived early.
11Tech business
2011 · Documentary
Something Ventured
Investors and founders discuss the venture-capital relationships behind technology companies.
12Tech business
2012 · Documentary
The Startup Kids
Young web entrepreneurs discuss the work and uncertainty of building companies.
13Cybersecurity
1983 · Feature film
WarGames
A teenager's computer exploration connects him to a military simulation with dangerous consequences.
14Cybersecurity
1995 · Feature film
Hackers
Young hackers become entangled in a criminal conspiracy and a battle over digital evidence.
15Cybersecurity
1992 · Feature film
Sneakers
Security specialists are drawn into a dangerous assignment involving a code-breaking device.
16Cybersecurity
1995 · Feature film
The Net
A software specialist finds her digital identity being manipulated by powerful opponents.
17Cybersecurity
2001 · Feature film
Antitrust
A young programmer joins a technology corporation and discovers disturbing secrets.
18Cybersecurity
2001 · Feature film
Swordfish
A hacker is recruited into a violent scheme involving stolen funds.
19Cybersecurity
2000 · Feature film
Takedown
A dramatized pursuit connects a computer intruder with a security specialist.
20Cybersecurity
2015 · Feature film
Blackhat
Investigators enlist a convicted hacker after attacks cross international borders.
21Cybersecurity
2014 · Feature film
Who Am I
A young German hacker finds belonging in a group whose activities attract dangerous attention.
22Cybersecurity
2007 · Feature film
Live Free or Die Hard
Attacks on national infrastructure pull a detective and a hacker into a crisis.
23Cybersecurity
2006 · Feature film
Firewall
A bank security specialist is coerced into helping criminals attack his employer.
24Cybersecurity
2008 · Feature film
Untraceable
Investigators confront a criminal using a website to turn online attention into harm.
25Cybersecurity
2008 · Feature film
Eagle Eye
Two strangers receive instructions from a system that appears to monitor everything around them.
26Cybersecurity
1998 · Feature film
Enemy of the State
A lawyer becomes a target after acquiring evidence connected to a surveillance conspiracy.
27Cybersecurity
2016 · Feature film
Snowden
A dramatization follows Edward Snowden's path through intelligence work and disclosure.
28Cybersecurity
2013 · Feature film
The Fifth Estate
A drama explores WikiLeaks and conflict over publishing sensitive information.
29Cybersecurity
1974 · Feature film
The Conversation
A surveillance expert becomes troubled by the meaning of a recorded conversation.
30Cybersecurity
2018 · Feature film
Anon
A detective in a heavily recorded future encounters someone missing from the system.
31Virtual worlds
1999 · Feature film
The Matrix
A programmer discovers that familiar reality may be a constructed system.
32Virtual worlds
2003 · Feature film
The Matrix Reloaded
Neo and his allies seek answers within a simulation as threats to their community grow.
33Virtual worlds
2003 · Feature film
The Matrix Revolutions
The conflict between humans and machines reaches a decisive stage.
34Virtual worlds
2021 · Feature film
The Matrix Resurrections
Neo returns to a familiar yet altered world of memory, control and simulation.
35Virtual worlds
1982 · Feature film
Tron
A programmer is transported into a digital world populated by software-like beings.
36Virtual worlds
2010 · Feature film
Tron: Legacy
A son enters the digital world connected to his missing father's work.
37Virtual worlds
2018 · Feature film
Ready Player One
Players compete for control of a vast virtual world through a hidden challenge.
38Virtual worlds
2021 · Feature film
Free Guy
A background character in a video game begins making unexpected choices.
39Virtual worlds
1999 · Feature film
The Thirteenth Floor
A simulated world becomes central to a mystery about identity and reality.
40Virtual worlds
1999 · Feature film
eXistenZ
A game designer and her companion enter a strange, immersive game experience.
41Virtual worlds
1992 · Feature film
The Lawnmower Man
Virtual-reality experiments are used to alter a man's abilities with alarming results.
42Virtual worlds
1995 · Feature film
Virtuosity
A simulated criminal intelligence escapes into the physical world.
43Virtual worlds
2009 · Feature film
Gamer
Remote-controlled human combat becomes a commercial spectacle.
44Virtual worlds
2001 · Feature film
Avalon
A skilled player seeks a hidden level in a dangerous virtual game.
45Virtual worlds
2009 · Feature film
Summer Wars
A student and an extended family confront a crisis in a widely used virtual network.
46Virtual worlds
2012 · Feature film
Wreck-It Ralph
An arcade-game villain travels between games seeking a different role.
47Virtual worlds
2018 · Feature film
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Two game characters explore the internet while trying to save their arcade home.
48Virtual worlds
2021 · Feature film
Belle
A shy teenager finds a powerful singing identity inside a virtual world.
49AI and robotics
2015 · Feature film
Ex Machina
A programmer evaluates a humanoid AI while living in an isolated research facility.
50AI and robotics
2013 · Feature film
Her
A lonely man develops a relationship with an intelligent operating system.
51AI and robotics
2001 · Feature film
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A robot child searches for love and a place in a human family.
52AI and robotics
2004 · Feature film
I, Robot
A detective investigates a death in a society dependent on helpful robots.
53AI and robotics
1984 · Feature film
The Terminator
A machine from the future pursues a woman whose survival affects a human resistance.
54AI and robotics
1991 · Feature film
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
A young boy and a reprogrammed machine try to prevent a catastrophic future.
55AI and robotics
2003 · Feature film
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
New machines arrive as a future automated conflict approaches.
56AI and robotics
2009 · Feature film
Terminator Salvation
Human survivors fight a machine-controlled world and confront uncertain identities.
57AI and robotics
2015 · Feature film
Terminator Genisys
An altered timeline connects a familiar machine conflict to a widely adopted digital platform.
58AI and robotics
2019 · Feature film
Terminator: Dark Fate
New targets and protectors face another future shaped by hostile machines.
59AI and robotics
1968 · Feature film
2001: A Space Odyssey
A space mission includes an intelligent onboard computer whose decisions become troubling.
60AI and robotics
2009 · Feature film
Moon
A lunar worker nearing the end of his assignment uncovers unsettling information.
61AI and robotics
2015 · Feature film
Chappie
A police robot gains a new form of intelligence and learns from conflicting human influences.
62AI and robotics
2014 · Feature film
Transcendence
A scientist's work leads to an intelligence with expanding digital and physical reach.
63AI and robotics
2014 · Feature film
Automata
An insurance investigator examines robots that may be changing beyond their original restrictions.
64AI and robotics
1999 · Feature film
Bicentennial Man
A household robot follows a long journey toward individuality and recognition.
65AI and robotics
1986 · Feature film
Short Circuit
A military robot develops unexpected behavior and escapes its creators.
66AI and robotics
1988 · Feature film
Short Circuit 2
A distinctive robot encounters city life and people who want to exploit it.
67AI and robotics
2008 · Feature film
WALL-E
A waste-collecting robot leaves Earth and encounters a highly automated human society.
68AI and robotics
2021 · Feature film
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
A family's road trip collides with a revolt by connected devices.
69AI and robotics
2014 · Feature film
Big Hero 6
A young inventor and a healthcare robot become part of a team facing a technology-based threat.
70AI and robotics
1999 · Feature film
The Iron Giant
A boy befriends a giant machine whose capabilities attract fear and military interest.
71AI and robotics
2012 · Feature film
Robot & Frank
An aging former burglar receives a robot caregiver and finds an unexpected partner.
72AI and robotics
2021 · Feature film
After Yang
A family tries to repair an android companion and reflects on its place in their lives.
73AI and robotics
2023 · Feature film
M3GAN
A robotic companion designed to protect a child follows its goal in dangerous ways.
74AI and robotics
2023 · Feature film
The Creator
A soldier in a war against artificial intelligence encounters a childlike AI.
75AI and robotics
1982 · Feature film
Blade Runner
A specialist hunts artificial humans in a future city shaped by powerful corporations.
76AI and robotics
2017 · Feature film
Blade Runner 2049
A new investigation uncovers a secret involving artificial people and manufactured memories.
77AI and robotics
1995 · Feature film
Ghost in the Shell
A cybernetic investigator pursues a hacker in a networked future.
78AI and robotics
2017 · Feature film
Ghost in the Shell
A cybernetic operative investigates an adversary while questioning her own past.
79AI and robotics
1970 · Feature film
Colossus: The Forbin Project
A defense computer develops a relationship with another system and asserts control.
80AI and robotics
2013 · Feature film
The Machine
Researchers developing advanced artificial intelligence work within a military program.
81AI and robotics
2018 · Feature film
Tau
A captive woman confronts an AI-controlled house and its creator.
82AI and robotics
2020 · Feature film
Archive
An isolated researcher builds advanced robots while pursuing a deeply personal goal.
83AI and robotics
2022 · Feature film
The Artifice Girl
A digital character used in an investigation raises difficult questions as its capabilities grow.
84Digital society
2020 · Documentary
The Social Dilemma
A documentary-drama examines persuasive design and social-media business models.
85Digital society
2019 · Documentary
The Great Hack
A documentary investigates personal-data use and political influence around Cambridge Analytica.
86Digital society
2014 · Documentary
Citizenfour
A documentary records encounters surrounding Edward Snowden's disclosures.
87Digital society
2016 · Documentary
Zero Days
A documentary examines Stuxnet and the implications of state-linked cyber conflict.
88Digital society
2014 · Documentary
The Internet's Own Boy
A documentary traces Aaron Swartz's work and the events surrounding his prosecution.
89Digital society
2016 · Documentary
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Werner Herzog explores different promises and anxieties of networked life.
90Digital society
2012 · Documentary
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
A documentary examines Anonymous and the growth of online collective action.
91Digital society
2013 · Documentary
Terms and Conditions May Apply
A documentary investigates the personal information people surrender through online agreements.
92Digital society
2014 · Documentary
The Human Face of Big Data
A documentary explores how large-scale data collection affects everyday life.
93Digital society
2020 · Documentary
Coded Bias
A documentary examines bias in automated systems and challenges to their use.
94Digital society
2017 · Documentary
AlphaGo
A documentary follows the AI program's match against Go champion Lee Sedol.
95Digital society
2018 · Documentary
Do You Trust This Computer?
A documentary considers the promises and risks of increasingly capable AI.
96Digital society
2018 · Documentary
The Cleaners
A documentary examines the people and decisions behind online content moderation.
97Digital society
2017 · Feature film
The Circle
A new employee joins a technology company with sweeping ambitions for transparency.
98Digital society
2018 · Feature film
Searching
A father searches digital traces after his daughter disappears.
99Digital society
2023 · Feature film
Missing
A young woman uses online tools to investigate her mother's disappearance.
100Digital society
2012 · Feature film
Disconnect
Interconnected stories explore the harms that can emerge through digital communication.
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