Surveillance, Power & Cyber Control

Investigates how commercial spyware like Pegasus turns smartphones into tools for global surveillance, exposing abuses by governments against activists, journalists, and everyday users.

Examines inherent biases in human perception and police bodycams, questioning claims of technology’s objectivity in surveillance and justice.

Follows artist Trevor Paglen’s project “Orbital Reflector,” deploying an artwork in space to provoke reflection on pervasive surveillance technologies and their global implications.

Former tech insiders reveal how social media manipulates behavior, exploits human psychology, and threatens democracy.

Follows the Cambridge Analytica scandal and how personal data was weaponized to influence elections and reshape democracy worldwide.

Explores the idea that "only people with something to hide care about privacy," challenging the assumption by documenting how invasive digital surveillance can be.

Adam Curtis traces how governments and corporations replaced reality with a manufactured version to maintain control — a hypnotic journey through the collapse of meaning.

A two-part PBS FRONTLINE series that investigates the hidden world of NSA surveillance and the whistleblowers who tried to stop it.

The real-life account of Edward Snowden and his revelations about the NSA’s global surveillance program. A tense and urgent glimpse into digital espionage.

Reveals how companies and governments collect massive amounts of personal data through user agreements, often without users’ true understanding or consent.

Facebook Follies is a one-hour documentary that takes a look at the unexpected consequences of people sharing their personal information on social media. Viewers meet people who lost their jobs, their marriages, their dignity, or who even ended up in jail - all because of their own or someone else's Facebook posting. To give a broader context to the events, these stories are intercut with reflections from experts in the areas of social change, internet security and contemporary media. Shot on location in Canada, the US and the UK, Facebook Follies is an engaging journey through one of today's most pervasive forces of social change.

A documentary series by Adam Curtis that examines how computers and systems thinking have shaped modern politics, society, and surveillance structures — often with unintended consequences.

Director David Bond finds out how much private companies and government know about him by attempting to disappear. Tracked by two ruthless private investigators, his chilling journey forces him to contemplate the loss of privacy.