The Great Hack

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The Great Hack

2019

2h 15m

Documentary

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55 Reviews

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The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.

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The Great Hack offers an alarming glimpse of the way data is being weaponized for political gain -- and what it might mean for future elections.

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Scott Bryan

BBC.com

07/15/2020

I think the problem about this documentary is that it makes so many different sweeping generalisations.

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Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

02/21/2020

[A] provocative, buzzy documentary.

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Peter Rainer

FilmWeek (LAist)

10/02/2019

This is a scary movie... [And] there's a lot of interesting characters.

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Mihir Fadnavis

Firstpost

05/15/2024

The information we gather from The Great Hack is on the same level as the stuff in The Big Short, but the presentation here is even more fine tuned for consumption.

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Brett Michael Dykes

Uproxx

12/29/2021

We live in a world connected with most of our interactions happening online. It's great but, as this doc shows, it's also terrifying.

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Taylor Baker

Drink in the Movies

08/19/2021

45/100

If you want me to save you roughly two hours, data rights are important and we need to talk about how to categorize them and hold large data companies accountable.

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Karim Amer

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Jehane Noujaim

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Synopsis

The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.

Director: Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim
Producer: Karim Amer, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Judy Korin
Screenwriter: Karim Amer, Pedro Kos, Erin Barnett
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Noujaim Films, The Othrs, Netflix
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 24, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 24, 2019
Runtime: 2h 15m