Documentaries

Documentaries serve as powerful tools that bring important topics to the table in a captivating way that also sparks conversation, and sometimes even social movements. Below are some documentaries about free and open source software and movements and some super amazing hackers who revolutionized the internet in general. They are quite motivating and inspiring so do give em a watch when you get some time :)

• Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary

  Code Rush is a 2000 documentary following the lives of a group of Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley. It covers Netscape's last year as an independent company, from their announcement of the Mozilla open source project until their acquisition by AOL.

• The Code

  Finnish-made documentary about GNU/Linux, featuring some of the most influential people of the free software movement.

• Revolution OS

  Revolution OS tells the inside story of the hackers and computer programmers who created Linux and the Open Source movement.

• The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

  The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.

• Citizenfour

  Citizenfour is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving unprecedented access to Edward Snowden as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.

• Default to Open: The Story of Open Source and Red Hat

  A documentary that looks at the past, present and future of Red Hat and the evolution of open source. Take a look back at what was going on in the 80s and 90s in open source