The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz Trailer & Clips

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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz full movie is released on Jun 27, 2014. Watch The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz online - the English Documentary movie from United States , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $48,911. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz is directed by Brian Knappenberger and created by Brian Knappenberger with Tim Berners-Lee and Cindy Cohn.

The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two year legal nightmare. It was a battle that ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26. Aaron's story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity. This film is a personal story about what we lose when we are tone deaf about technology and its relationship to our civil liberties.

As know as:

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, La historia de Aaron Swartz. El chico de Internet, Eeron Svartsin Hekayesi, Интернет-мальчик: История Аарона Шварца, The Internet's Own Boy - Die Geschichte des Aaron Swartz

Release Date:

Jun 27, 2014

Release Date (Streaming):

Jan 27, 2015

Countries:

United States

Language:

English

Stream Service:

FilmBuff, Participant Media

Production Companies:

FilmBuff, Participant, Luminant Media

Official Site:

Official site

Gross worldwide:

$48,911

Taglines:

Information is power

Reviews

Joe McGovern
Entertainment Weekly
Talking (egg)heads reiterate outrage over the Obama Justice Department's witch hunt against him, but Swartz's ex-girlfriend adds heart when she tearfully recalls first seeing the ''end date'' on his Wikipedia page.
by rottentomatoes, Dec 03, 2014
Mark Kermode
Observer (UK)
Knappenberger argues that the case against Swartz was overzealously pursued in order to make an example of him and on the evidence presented here it's hard to disagree.
by rottentomatoes, Aug 31, 2014
Leslie Felperin
Guardian
The film builds up a portrait of a brilliant, driven, complex young man who's likely to be an iconic figure in the future, a sort of digital-age Che Guevara.
by rottentomatoes, Aug 28, 2014

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