THE BLACK PACKET
Explore thought-provoking documentaries that challenge conventional narratives.
From technology and hacking to societal manipulation and hidden truths.
In Google We Trust
Every hour of every day, our digital interactions are being recorded and logged. We live in the age of 'big data', where the seemingly mundane information of our everyday existence has enormous value. With the help of expert data trackers, this revealing doc offers a comprehensive look at how governments and large companies keep tabs on us. It follows the information trail of an ordinary Australian family on a typical day, asking where does it end? What are the consequences? And more importantly, Who'''s looking at our data? "We can say we value privacy, but everyday online and in the real world we'''re being watched." As 12-year-old Christina Pappas leaves for school, her data has already traveled to America, The Netherlands and beyond.
Zero Days
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 Social Dilemma
Tech experts from Silicon Valley sound the alarm on the dangerous impact of social networking, which Big Tech use in an attempt to manipulate and influence.
The War On Journalism - The Case Of Julian Assange
Journalists are under attack globally for doing their jobs. Julian Assange is facing a 175 year sentence for publishing if extradited to the United States. The Trump administration has gone from denigrating journalists as ‘enemies of the people’ to now criminalizing common practices in journalism that have long served the public interest. WikiLeaks founder and Editor Julian Assange’s extradition is being sought by the Trump administration for publishing US government documents which exposed war crimes and human rights abuses. He is being held in maximum security HMP Belmarsh in London and faces a 175 years sentence if extradited. There is a war on journalism - Julian Assange is at the centre of that war. If this precedent is set then what happens to Assange can happen to any journalist.
Pre Crime
Science fiction turns into disturbing fact as forecasting softwares, algorithms and databases quickly become the new fortune-tellers for future crimes, driving us to ask: how much are we willing to abandon for the sake of security?
HAK_MTL
The Montreal hacker community, appalled by the meteoric rise of the surveillance society, is fighting for the democratization of the web and the protection of privacy.
Frontline - The Facebook Dilemma - Part 1
Early warnings about Facebook'''s impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world. Dozens of original interviews and rare footage show how the company faced claims of misuse while becoming an unprecedented global power.
Frontline - The Facebook Dilemma - Part 2
Original interviews and rare footage show the challenges facing Facebook and its response to charges of disrupting politics in America and around the world.
General Magic
The ideas that dominate the tech industry and our day to day lives were born at a secretive Silicon Valley start-up named 'General Magic', which spun out of Apple in 1990 to create the first handheld personal communicator (or "smartphone").
Mediastan
Members of WikiLeaks travel to Central Asia looking for media outlets willing to publish secret documents leaked by Bradley Manning but find the task difficult when, in an environment of intimidation and self-censorship, there are no takers.
Hacking Democracy
Chronicles investigator Bev Harris and activists exploring voting machine vulnerabilities, culminating in a hacker challenging Diebold'''s systems to expose potential vote manipulation.
Lo And Behold - Reveries Of The Connected World
Werner Herzog chronicles the virtual world from it'''s origins to it'''s outermost reaches, exploring the digital landscape with the same curiosity and imagination he previously trained on earthly destinations. Herzog leads viewers on a journey through a series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works - from business to education, space travel to healthcare, and the very heart of how we conduct our personal relationships.