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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz is a 2014 American biographical documentary film about Aaron Swartz written, directed, and produced by Brian Knappenberger. The film premiered in the US Documentary Competition program category at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2014.
Jun 30, 2014 · 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....
- 105 min
- 182K
- DocumentaryStorm
Jun 27, 2014 · The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz: Directed by Brian Knappenberger. With Tim Berners-Lee, Cindy Cohn, Gabriella Coleman, Cory Doctorow. The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.
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- Documentary, Biography, Crime
- Brian Knappenberger
- 2014-06-27
Jun 27, 2014 · The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him.
Jun 27, 2014 · The Internet’s Own Boy follows 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.
Informative and enraging in equal measure, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz uses its subject's tragic tale to deliver an impassioned call to action.
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- Documentary
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Jun 26, 2014 · Moving and maddening in almost equal measure, Brian Knappenberger’s “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz” is a devastating meditation on what can happen when a prescient...
