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The Great Hack

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85% Tomatometer 55 Reviews 66% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings
The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.
The Great Hack

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Critics Consensus

The Great Hack offers an alarming glimpse of the way data is being weaponized for political gain -- and what it might mean for future elections.

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Scott Bryan BBC.com Jul 15, 2020
I think the problem about this documentary is that it makes so many different sweeping generalisations. Go to Full Review
Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader Feb 21, 2020
[A] provocative, buzzy documentary. Go to Full Review
Peter Rainer FilmWeek (LAist) Oct 2, 2019
This is a scary movie... [And] there's a lot of interesting characters. Go to Full Review
Mihir Fadnavis Firstpost May 15, 2024
The information we gather from The Great Hack is on the same level as the stuff in The Big Short, but the presentation here is even more fine tuned for consumption. Go to Full Review
Brett Michael Dykes Uproxx Dec 29, 2021
We live in a world connected with most of our interactions happening online. It's great but, as this doc shows, it's also terrifying. Go to Full Review
Taylor Baker Drink in the Movies Aug 19, 2021
45/100
If you want me to save you roughly two hours, data rights are important and we need to talk about how to categorize them and hold large data companies accountable. Go to Full Review
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Karim Amer

Director

Jehane Noujaim

Director

Brittany Kaiser

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David Carroll

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Paul-Olivier Dehaye

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Carole Cadwalladr

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Synopsis The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.
Director
Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim
Producer
Karim Amer, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Judy Korin
Screenwriter
Karim Amer, Pedro Kos, Erin Barnett
Distributor
Netflix
Production Co
Noujaim Films, The Othrs, Netflix
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 24, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 24, 2019
Runtime
2h 15m
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