The last week a friend asked me if I could suggest him some movies because he was boring, At that time I didn’t know what to answer him but I suddenly thought “He is an engineer sistem, He could enjoy some of my favorites movies about computers”, well here is my list of my favorites movies about computers, if you can get it I sure that you will enjoy it

Tron

Tron is a cience fiction Disney’s movie from 1982 about a programer’s story that was “eaten” by a computer, The programer wake up into his machine immersed in his own video games in a fantastic world then he try to hack the main frame from his company to get evidence about an injustice.

WarGames

WarGames is a film from 1987 about a kid who obtain access to a pentagon’s computer (The kid doesn’t know where the computer is), that computer controls all nuclear weapons of USA but the kid believe that is only a video game, when the kid dicovers that he start to find out who had programed the computer to save the world.

pirates of silicon valley

Pirates of Sillicon Valley is a movie from 1999 based in a true history about how Bill Gates (Microsft) and Steve jobs (Apple) made revolutionary changes in the software and hardware industry, sometimes using lies to get his objetives.

Takedown

Takedown is the history (based in real facts) about the pursuit and capture of Kevin Mitnick who hacked a lot of companys getting its industrial secrets (according to the film), that was an incredible history of the ages when the internet started to be comercial net.

Antitrust

Antitrus is a film about a young idealist and smart programmer called Milo Hoffman who make incredible softwares, he works in free way with his friends over a software that a big company wants and it will do anything to obtain the software.

The Matrix

I think that I don’t need to said anything about this film

Sneakers

Really I can’t said anything about this film, it is a suggest from a friend to me but unfortunately I couldn’t get the film yet here in Mexico .

Haven’t you had enough? Ok these are some of my favorite films/documentals about computers:

The Code (codigo linux)

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Part 3.

Part 4.

Part 5.

RevolutionOS

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Part 3.

Part 4.

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Part 6.

Part 7.

Part 8.

Part 9.

Piratas Informaticos

That is my favorite documental because it takes the history of Steve Wosniak, Captain Cruch, Kevin Mitnick and more…

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Part 3.

Part 4.

Part 5.

Part 6.

There is another interesting documental but at this time I can’t remember the name of it but you be sure that when I remember it I will post it , I hope that if you are a computer lover you will enjoy all that films/documentals like me.