Discover
The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's
help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit,
his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's groundbreaking work in social
justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information
access that ensnared him in a two year legal nightmare. It was a battle that ended with the
taking of his own life at the age of 26.
Aaron's story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he
was a celebrity. This film is a personal story about what we lose when we are tone deaf
about technology and its relationship to our civil liberties.
Original Release
06/27/2014
US Release
06/27/2014
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Tim Berners-Lee | Self - Inventor of the World Wide Web / Self |
Cindy Cohn | Self |
Gabriella Coleman | Self - Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy - McGill University |
Cory Doctorow | Self - Author, Activist, and Journalist / Self |
Peter Eckersley | Self - Technology Projects Direactor at EFF / Self |
Stephen Heymann | Self - Asst. U.S. Attorney Massachusetts |
Brewster Kahle | Self - Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive / Self |
Orin Kerr | Self |
Lawrence Lessig | Self - Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University -- Founder, Creative Commons / Self |
Zoe Lofgren | Self - Congresswoman, California's 19th District |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tim Berners-Lee | Self - Inventor of the World Wide Web / Self |
Cindy Cohn | Self |
Gabriella Coleman | Self - Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy - McGill University |
Cory Doctorow | Self - Author, Activist, and Journalist / Self |
Peter Eckersley | Self - Technology Projects Direactor at EFF / Self |
Stephen Heymann | Self - Asst. U.S. Attorney Massachusetts |
Brewster Kahle | Self - Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive / Self |
Orin Kerr | Self |
Lawrence Lessig | Self - Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University -- Founder, Creative Commons / Self |
Zoe Lofgren | Self - Congresswoman, California's 19th District |
Carl Malamud | Self - Founder of public.resource.org |
Quinn Norton | Self - Freelance Writer, Wired Magazine |
Tim O'Reilly | Self - Founder, O'Reilly Media Inc |
Elliot Peters | Self - Aaron's Defense Attorney |
Alec Resnick | Self - Founder, Sprout |
David Segal | Self - Founder, Demand Progress |
Stephen Shultze | Self - Former Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet in Society at Harvard |
David Sirota | Self - Columnist, Salon |
Christopher Soghoian | Self - Principal Technologist, ACLU Speech Privacy and Technology Project |
Bryan Stevenson | Self - Executive Director of the Equal Rights Initiative |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Charles Annenberg Weingarten | Executive Producer |
Zach Braff | Executive Producer |
Mason Fink | Executive Producer |
Aaron Greenspan | Executive Producer |
Greg Kidd | Executive Producer |
Brian Knappenberger | Executive Producer |
Suzanne Danziger | Producer |
Denise Gaberman | Producer |
Jeffrey Kanjanapangka | Producer |
Clementine Leger | Producer |
Brian Knappenberger | Producer |
Editors
Brian Knappenberger, Michelle M. Witten, Bryan Storkel, Andy Robertson, Jason Decker