Directors:
Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim
Initial release:
January 26, 2019
Watch on:
The Great Hack
Have you ever filled out an online survey? Do you wonder why you receive ads for products that you happened to research the day before? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Data has surpassed oil as the world’s most valuable asset, and it is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. We’re in a battle for control over our most intimate personal details. The Great Hack uncovers the dark world of data exploitation through the compelling personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data breach that rocked the world.

Our only agenda with this film is a cry out to people to think

for themselves and to not be okay living in a world where

algorithms that are amoral are continuing to shape our

decision making because the one thing that separates us

from the algorithm is morality and if we lose our autonomy in

that space, I’m not sure what’s left of humanity.

PRODUCED BY
Karim Amer
Aleksandra Bilic
Jennifer Corcoran
Christopher de la Torre
Geralyn White Dreyfous
Nina Fialkow
Marni Grossman
Marni E.J. Grossman
Sarah E. Johnson
Judy Korin
Pedro Kos

PRODUCED BY
Lyn Davis Lear
Mike Lerner
Nion McEvoy
Jonathan Mussman
Tracy Nguyen-Chung
Claire Read
Regina K. Scully
Bits Sola
Lynda Weinman
Jamie Wolf
Elizabeth Woodward

MUSIC BY
Gil Talmi

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY
Basil Childers
Ian Moubayed

FILM EDITING BY
Erin Barnett
Carlos Rojas

ART DEPARTMENT
Ash Thorp

SOUND DEPARTMENT
Robert Albrecht
Tom Baylis
Tristan Baylis
Jeremy S. Bloom
Alex Boyesen
Nikola Chapelle
Ollie Drummond
Rob Ellenberg
Nathan Hasz
Michael Kelly
Mark Mariaca

SOUND DEPARTMENT
Andres E. Marthe Gonzalez
Ai Miyatake
Don ‘Chudi’ Nelson
Nikos Nikolalaios
Tom Paul
Kyle Porter
Diego Reiwald
Tzvi Sherman
Bryan Smith
Camille Thomas
Hayley Wagner
Nathan Hasz

VISUAL EFFECTS BY
Alex J. Spence
Ash Thorp

CAMERA AND ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT
Lauren Bissell
Stuart McCardle
Soukaina Mehdaoui
Jack Pearce
Adithya Sambamurthy
Simona Susnea
Dylan Verrechia

ANIMATION DEPARTMENT
Daniel Claridge
Ash Thorp

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Andres Arias
Tim Ballard
Zennia M. Barahona
Daniel Claridge
Eyal Dimant
Axel Ericson
Sloane Klevin
Madeline Little
Ines Niarchos
Christopher Passig
Gary Scarpulla
Monica Yuen

ADDITIONAL CREW
Ola Abdelaal
Jennifer Felecia
Imogen Harrison
Sophie Reynolds
Lisa Wisely
Riccardo Mimmi

THANKS
Elias Aboujaoude
Jonathan Albright
Dina Amer
Sarah Amer
Berit Anderson
Moustafa Ayad
Diana Backer
Byron Barnett
Mary Anne Barnett
Richard Berliner
Joe Bernstein
Anurima Bhargava
Michael Birdsall
Lauren Bissell

THANKS
Layan Bitar
Nancy Blachman
Rebecca Blandón
Ann Blinkhorn
Linda Brownstein
Neil Brownstein
Marc Caputo
Dorsey Carson
Guillaume Chaslot
Judy Cohen
Larry Cohen
Damian Collins
Vivienne De Courcy
Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley

THANKS
Renee DiResta
Barbara Dobkin
Joan Donovan
Julia Ebner
Eman Elhelw
Daniel Ellsberg
Lincoln Else
Harold Evans
David Fialkow
Nick Fitzhugh
Marian Goodell
Jorie Graham
Hannes Grassegger
Yasmin Green
Justin Hendrix
Peter Hiscocks

THANKS
Tami Hoffman
Brett Horvath
Jeff Hudson
Nafis Jamal
Ali Johnes
Peter Jukes
Evelyn Kaiser
Natalie Kaiser
Esther Kaplan
Dave Killeen
Aaron Kogan
Monica Kos
Paulo Kos
Michal Kosinski
Meagan LaGraffe
Hameda Lasheen

THANKS
Norman Lear
Ping Li
Alex Lightman
Avram Ludwig
Josh Mailman
Scott McDonald
Roger McNamee
Megan Miller
Anne Milliken
Farhad Mohit
Sarah Mohr
Clare Munn
David Neiwert
Beth Noujaim
Catherine Noujaim
Khalil Noujaim
Oyetayo Raymond Ojoade
Julia Pacotti
David Paradice

THANKS
Daniel Passman
James Patrick
Gerhad Plasonig
John Podesta
Matthew Prince
Rob Reiner
Amanda Robb
Kara Ross
Kevin Ryan
Peter Sachs
Jess Search
Nathalie Seaver
Julie Senet
Amanda Senske
Pascaline Servan-Shreiber
Tamsin Shaw
Michele Singer
Megan Smith

THANKS
Amir Soltani
Kate Starbird
Steve Stecklow
Jim Steyer
David Stillwell
Kelly Strathmeyer
Jim Swartz
Susan Swartz
Kyle Taylor
Gillian Tett
Emilie Upczak
Jon Vein
Chris Vickery
Naima Vogt
Jim Walden
Lucy Walker
Rand Waltzman
Bess Weatherman
Lisa Woodward
Shoshana Zuboff

“We can’t wait for the future we want. The future is here. And

whether it’s about race, racial equality, whether it’s about

minority rights, whether it’s about immigration, whether it’s

about the environmental apocalypse that we’re at the cusp

of, or whether it’s about valuing science and believing that

things like vaccines and that science is relevant for society,

all these—no matter what your issue is that you care about

most—none of these things can be attained as long as we

have Facebook…polluting our information highway and

stifling democratic civil discourse.” – Karim Amer, Producer

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