| Cast: | Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood (I), Ally Sheedy | |
| Tagline: | It it a game, or is it real? | |
| Plot: | A young man finds a back door into a military computer for strategic simulations while searching for a new game. By playing he nearly starts World War III. |
| Features: | telephone number scanning, 8" floppy disks, acoustic couplers | |
| Personal note: | essential |
| Cast: | Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, David Strathairn, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, Ben Kingsley | |
| Tagline: | We could tell you what it's about. But then, of course, we'd have to kill you. | |
| Plot: | Complex but lighthearted thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage and deception and betrayal. |
| Features: | trashing, social engineering, a cool braille terminal | |
| Personal note: | cool movie, a must see |
| Cast: | Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Notham, Dennis Miller (I), Diane Baker, Wendy Gazelle | |
| Tagline: | Her driver's license. her credit cards. Her bank accounts. Her identity. DELETED | |
| Plot: | Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. |
| Features: | Instant Messaging | |
| Personal note: | harmless, boring; source of the PIs one some web sites |
| Cast: | Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard | |
| Tagline: | Their only crime was curiosity. | |
| Plot: | A young boy is arrested by the Secret Service for writing a computer virus and banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. |
| Features: | a raid, a hacker combat, silly hacking sequences (defense programs shooting attack programs) | |
| Personal note: | bad; with some funny parts and some nice goodies |
| Cast: | August Diehl, Fabian Busch, Dieter Landuris, Jan Georg Kremp | |
| Tagline: | Nichts ist so wie es scheint. | |
| Plot: | The movie's plot is based on a true story about a group of young computer hackers from Hannover Germany. |
| Features: | a PDP-11, invention of the trojan horse | |
| Personal note: | essential |
| Cast: | Anthony Michael Hall (as Bill Gates), Noah Wyle (as Steve Jobs), Joey Slotnick (as Steve Wozniak), John Di Maggio (as Steve Ballmer), Josh Hopkins (as Paul Allen), Wayne Pére (as Captain Crunch) | |
| Tagline: | ||
| Plot: | History of Apple and Microsoft. |
| Features: | Captain Crunch, Blueboxes, a lot of Computer and IT history | |
| Personal note: | essential |
| Cast: | Skeet Ulrich, Russell Wong, Donal Logue, Tom Baranger | |
| Tagline: | The world has a right to know. | |
| Plot: | The makers say that the story is based on the truth of the capture of Kevin Mitnick. |
| Features: | finger hacking of a cell phone, phreaking, social engineering | |
| Personal note: | interesting - worth watching (see: FREEDOM DOWNTIME below) |
| Cast: | Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan | |
| Tagline: | A world inside the computer where man has never been. Never before now. | |
| Plot: | A hacker is literally abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games. |
| Features: | man on man fight of a hacker against a security program | |
| Personal note: | cool movie, a must see |
| Cast: | Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Ajay Naidu, David Herman (I), Gary Cole (I) | |
| Tagline: | Work Sucks | |
| Plot: | Comedic tale of company workers who hate their jobs and decide to rebel against their greedy boss. They work on bank software so they decide to write a program that transfers a small amount of money to their bank account with each money transfer done. |
| Features: | cool destruction of a HP LaserJet | |
| Personal note: | a must see if you belong to today's IT work force |
| Cast: | Ryan Phillipp, Rachael Leigh Cook, Claire Forlani, Tim Robbins | |
| Tagline: | Truth Can Be Dangerous... Trust Can Be Deadly. | |
| Plot: | A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems. |
| Features: | nothing special | |
| Personal note: | normal average |
| Cast: | Douglas Adams, Paul Allen, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, etc... | |
| Tagline: | The Rise of Accidental Empires | |
| Plot: | The definitive TV documentary of the personal computer. |
| Features: | many known people | |
| Personal note: | A history lesson for all GEEKS! |
| Cast: | many known people | |
| Tagline: | The story of Kevin Mitnick told by the people of 2600 Magazine | |
| Plot: | The story of the computer hacker Kevin Mitnick and other hackers. |
| Features: | many known people | |
| Personal note: | if you saw Takedown you MUST see this one! |
| Features: | some known people, nice flair from the better days | |
| Personal note: | This is real fun to watch, I specially like the part about The Lopth |
| Features: | some known people - how it really is! | |
| Personal note: | Just a nice thing to watch! |