The Cost Of Convenience examines how internet platforms are impacting our mental health, restructuring our communities, threatening our democracy, and violating our human rights.
Casts David Donnelly, Roger McNamee, Safiya Umoja Noble, Carissa Veliz, Robert Greene, Quddus, Tommy Sobel, Julie Albright, Susie Alegre, Hilarie Cash
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Railway Station
Your Face is Ours: The Dangers of Facial Recognition Software
Behind Your Radio Dial
Testerep
1997: The Birth of the Camera Phone
Cyborgs Among Us
Lotus: A New Dawn
DSKNECTD
Koyaanisqatsi
Instagram Is
Forward a Century
The Social Dilemma
Final Warning
LIKE
Undercover: Inside China's Digital Gulag
Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus
Look at Life: Figure It Out
How William Shatner Changed The World
Nothing to Hide
Cyborgs: Human Machines
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Railway Station
IMDB 4.7 | Jan , 1980
Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. Maybe they'll come, maybe they won't. The film is about people looking for something.Your Face is Ours: The Dangers of Facial Recognition Software
IMDB 8 | Jun , 2023
New York-based tech company Clearview AI is working to identify and compile the faces of every human being on the planet. The firm claims that its database will serve as a force for good, helping to solve crimes and prevent espionage. But what if Clearview AI’s powerful facial recognition software, that could potentially be used for mass surveillance and profiling, fell into the wrong hands? What if it already has?Behind Your Radio Dial
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1949
Familiar radio voice Ben Grauer leads the viewer on a behind the scenes tour of the National Broadcasting Company studios -- both radio and television -- in Rockefeller Center and Hollywood. The original 25-minute film previewed by network execs and affiliates in the fall of 1948 was cut down to 20 minutes before its first broadcast, reportedly to excise high-profile stars and programs such as Amos 'n' Andy, Jack Benny, and Edgar Bergen that had since left NBC for other networks.Testerep
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2024
A team of scientists search for the lost island of Testerep in front of the Belgian coast, venturing into artificial landscapes and virtual realities.1997: The Birth of the Camera Phone
IMDB 7.5 | Jun , 2017
On June 11th, 1997, Philippe Kahn created the first camera phone solution to share pictures instantly on public networks. The impetus for this invention was the birth of Kahn's daughter, when he jerry-rigged a mobile phone with a digital camera and sent photos in real time. In 2016 Time Magazine included Kahn's first camera phone photo in their list of the 100 most influential photos of all time.Cyborgs Among Us
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2017
In a few years, technology will merge with our bodies in ways that today seem unimaginable, and will redefine the limits of what is a human being. There are already people who, driven by the desire to experiment, have crossed the biological limits by introducing electronic devices that provide them with capabilities that go beyond what is "normal." They are the first hybrids, and they face the reaction of society, which goes from malignancy to enthusiasm. Today they are only a small minority, and many people consider them as disrupted experimenters, but in the near future we may recognize them as pioneers.Lotus: A New Dawn
IMDB 6 | Jul , 2021
This short documentary follows the fortunes of iconic car manufacturer Lotus. Once famous for its championship-winning race cars and iconic sports cars, Lotus has struggled to remain in profit. A new investor and managing director set out to build the first new Lotus road cars in over a decade: their final petrol-powered car Emira and their first pure electric British hypercar, the 2000bhp Evija.DSKNECTD
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 2013
As clichés go, in 1999 the World as we knew it was about to change - and we'd been expecting it. Since childhood we'd been promised that the 21st century would bring us dramatic new technologies like flying cars and Utopian cities. Instead it bought us the smart-phone, social media, and virtual societies. And as it turns out these technologies began to transform society almost as dramatically as the moon colonies we'd been expecting. Now over a decade into the revolution, 'DSKNECTD' explores how digital communication technology is profoundly changing the way we interact and experience each other - for the good and for the bad.Koyaanisqatsi
IMDB 7.9 | Apr , 1983
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.Instagram Is
IMDB 10 | May , 2013
In a culture immersed in technology, Instagram is reviving adventure, face to face community and real relationships. Through sharing the stories of friends old and new, "Instagram Is" sets out to discover the answer to the question "How can something so digital get people out from behind their devices and into the analog world?"Forward a Century
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1951
Commissioned by the Festival of Britain to show the similarities and contrasts between 1851 and 1951, by means of the Great Exhibition and the Festival.The Social Dilemma
IMDB 7.5 | Jan , 2020
This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.Final Warning
IMDB 3 | Jan , 1995
Host Grant Jeffrey discusses how technology and government activities are changing the way our information is handled. How is this shaping our lives?LIKE
IMDB 1.5 | Nov , 2018
LIKE is an IndieFlix Original documentary that explores the impact of social media on our lives and the effects of technology on the brain. The goal of the film is to inspire us to self-regulate. Social media is a tool and social platforms are a place to connect, share, and care … but is that what's really happening?Undercover: Inside China's Digital Gulag
IMDB 8 | Jul , 2019
Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus
IMDB 8.8 | Jan , 2023
FRONTLINE and Forbidden Films investigate Pegasus, a powerful spyware sold to governments around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group.Look at Life: Figure It Out
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1963
The story of computers: from electronic tape and punched cards, to austere-looking robots.How William Shatner Changed The World
IMDB 6.1 | Nov , 2005
William Shatner presents a light-hearted look at how the "Star Trek" TV series have influenced and inspired today's technologies, including: cell phones, medical imaging, computers and software, SETI, MP3 players and iPods, virtual reality, and spaceship propulsion.Nothing to Hide
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 2017
NOTHING TO HIDE is an independent documentary dealing with surveillance and its acceptance by the general public through the "I have nothing to hide" argument. The documentary was produced and directed by a pair of Berlin-based journalists, Mihaela Gladovic and Marc Meillassoux. It was crowdfunded by over 400 backers. NOTHING TO HIDE questions the growing, puzzling and passive public acceptance of massive corporate and governmental incursions into individual and group privacy and rights. After the emotion initially triggered by the Snowden revelations, it seems that the general public has finally accepted to live in a monitored digital world.Cyborgs: Human Machines
IMDB 0 | May , 2017
Over the past few years, technology has improved our lives in so many ways. Now, some people, called trans-humanists, are taking the next logical step - they are fusing their bodies with digital implants to increase their abilities and expand their senses - they are becoming, in effect, real life cyborgs. How is life going to change for us all if some people have supernatural powers?