Prof. V's Movie Recommendations

Tech Related

• 3 Idiots - Just watch it! Make sure you get the version with English subtitles. Available at the FGCU library.

• Hidden Figures - The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

• The Imitation Game - During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life.

• Snowden - scripted film about the secret and illegal practices of the U.S. National Security Agency’s mass surveillance program using classified documents revealed by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden.

• Citizenfour - documentary about the secret and illegal practices of the U.S. National Security Agency’s mass surveillance program using classified documents revealed by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden.

• WarGames - A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.

• Pirates of Silicon Valley - History of Apple and Microsoft.

• Jobs - scripted file of the story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.

• The Social Network - scripted film about the origins of Facebook

• Revolution OS - documentary film that traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement.

• We Are Legion - A documentary on the workings and beliefs of the self-described "hacktivist" collective, Anonymous.

• Ghost in the Shell - animated film in which a cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.

• The Social Dilemma - documentary that explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

• Triumph of the Nerds - documentary series that tells the story of the birth of the personal computer, with the candid recollections of PC pioneers, like Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

• Office Space - Three company workers who hate their jobs decide to rebel against their greedy boss.

• Ex Machina - A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.

• Indie Game: The Movie - A documentary that follows the journeys of indie game developers as they create games and release those works, and themselves, to the world.