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Movies Essential for Understanding Cybersecurity

For holiday viewing

December 22, 2017

Popular culture and media often reflect existential and other societal concerns and can offer some insight into our relationship with technology. With the holiday season upon us, here's a list of movies essential for understanding cybersecurity. Did we miss anything? Email us at techpolicy@csis.org.
 
  1. Dr. Strangelove
  2. 2001 Space Odyssey
  3. War Games (1983)
  4. Sneakers
  5. Hackers (1994)
  6. Terminator
  7. Die Hard 4
  8. GoldenEye
  9. Elysium
  10. Blade Runner
  11. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  12. The Matrix
  13. Minority Report 
  14. Ex Machina
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