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From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106967

documentaries

  • Breaking the Codes (1996) - Older biography about Alan Turing.
  • Indie Game (2012) - A documentary that follows the journeys of indie game developers as they create games and release those works, and themselves, to the world.
  • Zero Days (2016) - A documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target.
  • The Triumph of the Nerds (1996) - 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.
  • Nerds 2.0.1 (1998) - Documentary. The development of Arpanet, the Internet and the World Wide Web from 1969 to 1998 is explored.
  • Citizenfour (2014) - A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
  • Voyage of Time: Life's Journey (2016) - Documentary. An exploration into our planetary past and a search for humanity's place in the future. With narration by Cate Blanchett.
  • Silicon Cowboys (2016) - Documentary. Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM for PC supremacy. Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know.

based on true stories

  • The Imitation Game (2014) - Drama. The story of the life of math genius Alan Turing.
  • Molly's Game (2017) - Drama. The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target. By Aaron Sorkin.
  • The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) - A family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.
  • The Challenger Disaster (2019) - Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challenger's 1986 disintegration.
  • The Founder (2016) - The story of Ray Kroc (McDonalds), a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.
  • Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) - Dramatized history of Apple and Microsoft.
  • October Sky (1999) - Drama, the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

fictional

  • Echelon Conspiracy (2009) - Drama. At first, the strange phone messages promised great wealth. Soon, though, government agents pursue the young engineer receiving them around the world.
  • Antitrust (2001) - Drama, includes references to Microsoft/Bill Gates. A 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.
  • Sneakers (1992) - Drama. A security pro finds his past coming back to haunt him, when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item.
  • Who Am I (2014) - Drama, similar to Hackers but German. Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
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