The Best Internet & Hackers Documentaries

Science & Tech - 66 free documentaries about the internet & hackers.

Start with Your phone is not as secure as you think. (32 min, Veritasium), then I built a QR code with my bare hands to see how it works (35 min, Veritasium). All 66 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on the internet & hackers is The Innovators by Walter Isaacson.

• Your phone is not as secure as you think. (32 min, Veritasium)
• I built a QR code with my bare hands to see how it works (35 min, Veritasium)
• The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster And No One Knew (53 min, Veritasium)
• Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213 (19 min, Smarter Every Day)
• How Cell Service Actually Works (19 min, Wendover Productions)
• The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What? (12 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Julian Assange: Inside the Wikileaks Saga (57 min, Real Stories)
• Eating 100,000 Calories For A Living | My Life Online (23 min, VICE)
• The Dark Web and Illegal Marketplaces | Alphabay (46 min, ENDEVR)
• The Dangers Of Modern Dating | Murder On the Internet (Part 1) (43 min, Real Crime)
• How A Hacker Outsmarted Cyber Mafia (50 min, Spark)
• The Randomness Crisis Threatening the Internet (23 min, Be Smart)
• DARK WEB: GUNS, Kidnapping & More - The Disturbing Side of the Internet (185 min, ENDEVR)
• The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | Crown and Corruption | The Offshore Dominance (78 min, Moconomy)
• Alpha men: a journey into the manosphere (30 min, VPRO Documentary)
• America's Surveillance State: The Surveillance Industrial Complex | NSA (25 min, ENDEVR)
• The Instagram 'Scammer': Caroline Calloway | My Life Online (23 min, VICE)
• Online Psychopath Killer On The Prowl (44 min, Real Crime)
• Is Your Privacy An Illusion? (Taking on Big Tech) - Smarter Every Day 263 (12 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Trevor Jacob: The YouTuber Who Crashed a Plane for Views | My Life Online (24 min, VICE)
• Being offline is the new luxury - VPRO documentary (47 min, VPRO Documentary)
• We Test Skincare Products Bought Online: How Likely Are They To Be Counterfeit? | Talking Point (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Forced to deceive: Inside the cyber mafia and online scams (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Cyberbullies - Online hate unmasked (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Three Girls Who Lived and Died Online (52 min, Real Stories)
• DNA Testing and Privacy (Behind the scenes at the 23andMe Lab) - Smarter Every Day 176 (14 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Cyber Warfare: How to Destroy Entire Nations with a Single Click! (50 min, ENDEVR)
• America's Surveillance State: The Surveillance Machine | Privacy | NSA (26 min, ENDEVR)
• The Internet of Everything: How Smart Homes Can Be a Threat to Our Lives (52 min, ENDEVR)
• Powering The Internet is Becoming a Big Problem (17 min, The B1M)
• Data Theft In Malaysia: How Your Personal Information May Be Exploited | Cyber Scammed - Part 2/3 (45 min, CNA Insider)
• America’s Surveillance State | Your Privacy is Dead - Here's Who's Tracking You (74 min, Moconomy)
• The Internet of Everything | Silicon Valley (52 min, Moconomy)
• Britain's Second Empire Exposed: The Global Financial Web (76 min, Real Stories)
• How The Dark Web Was Allowed To Thrive (47 min, Spark)
• How the Criminal World of Catfishing Works | The Dark Web (48 min, ENDEVR)
• Zero days - Security leaks for sale (49 min, VPRO Documentary)
• The Battle Over Roblox: Why Indonesia Is Cracking Down On Online Games | Insight (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Guardians of the New World: Inside the World of Hacker Culture (56 min, ENDEVR)
• The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | How London Runs the World's Dirty Money | 4K (78 min, Moconomy)
• The Dark Web | Inside Billion-Dollar Black Markets (91 min, Moconomy)
• The Danger Of Internet | Internet Crimes (52 min, Moconomy)
• Buying hacked computers (36 min, VPRO Documentary)
• How Amazon Took Over Half The Internet (26 min, Real Stories)
• Rise of the Trolls: The Underworld of Internet Anonymity (52 min, ENDEVR)
• Alpha Bay Takedown: The Dark Web's Biggest Drug Marketplace Exposed | The Dark Web (46 min, Real Crime)
• The Snowflake Generation? (52 min, Real Stories)
• How Wildlife Trafficking Prospers Online and Puts Species in Danger (46 min, ENDEVR)
• Social Media Addicts Anonymous (26 min, Real Stories)
• Scammed In China: How Trojan Horses Launch Malware Attacks On Our Devices | Cyber Scammed - Part 1/3 (45 min, CNA Insider)
• Data, social media & privacy - Founders Valley (2/5) (26 min, DW Documentary)
• The Dark Web | The $800,000/Day ILLEGAL Trade Empire ... Until It Fell (91 min, Moconomy)
• What makes you click - VPRO documentary - 2016 (47 min, VPRO Documentary)
• War in Sudan: Why a Nation Is Falling Apart - An online discussion by DW Documentary (95 min, DW Documentary)
• How Cyber Extortion Works (48 min, Spark)
• Writer Maureen O'Connor on the World of Online Dating: VICE Meets (23 min, VICE)
• The Psychological Tricks Keeping You Online (10 min, BrainCraft)
• The Dark Side Of The Philippines' Online Casinos (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Shosh Shlam on Internet Addicts in 'Web Junkie': VICE Meets (31 min, VICE)
• Singapore’s Journey From Dial-Up Dinosaur To Tech Powerhouse | The Internet & Us (46 min, CNA Insider)
• Are Online Parenting Tips Useful Or Harmful? - Part 1 | Has The Internet Broken Parenting? (46 min, CNA Insider)
• HVAC Internet Of Things - iiot (10 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• Worried Your Baby Isn't Meeting Milestones On Time? - Part 2 | Has The Internet Broken Parenting? (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Reddit Founders Talk Internet Privacy, Harassment, Freedom of Speech on 'Bloomberg West' (08/23/16) (60 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• HealthCare.gov Troubles, GOP Intra-Party Battle & U.S. Surveillance of Foreign Leaders (25 min, PBS)
• PBS MediaShift | 5Across February, 2011 | Online Privacy (25 min, PBS)

Top-Rated Books About The Internet & Hackers

1. The Innovators by Walter Isaacson (4/5) - View on Amazon
2. Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner (3.8/5) - View on Amazon
3. The Shallows by Nicholas G. Carr (3.4/5) - View on Amazon
4. Tubes by Andrew Blum - View on Amazon
5. Ghost in the Wires by Kevin D. Mitnick (4/5) - View on Amazon
6. Hackers by Steven Levy (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
7. The web application hacker's handbook by Dafydd Stuttard - View on Amazon
8. Gray Hat Hacking by Shon Harris - View on Amazon
9. The Art of Deception by Kevin D. Mitnick (3.8/5) - View on Amazon
10. The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
11. The Art of Intrusion by Kevin D. Mitnick (3.7/5) - View on Amazon