

This Internet is under attack. Communications, culture, free speech, innovation, and democracy are all up for grabs. Will the Internet be dominated by a few powerful interests? Or will citizens rise up to protect it?
Direction
Gripping editing that weaponizes urgency
Writing
Swartz and Snowden's haunting final interviews
Director
Ali Akbarzadeh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Akbarzadeh crowdfunded this through Kickstarter before documentary streaming exploded, making its release timing almost prophetically urgent.
Aaron Swartz's footage was among his final interviews before his 2013 suicide; the film became unintentional elegy for a generation's lost digital revolutionary.