In 1989, known as Mendax, Julian Assange and two friends formed a group called the International Subversives. Using early home computers and defining themselves as white hat hackers - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. In the eyes of the US Government, they were a major threat to national security.

Snowden
2016
7.1/10

Takedown
2000
6.1/10

The Social Network
2010
7.4/10

Jobs
2013
6.1/10

Antitrust
2001
6.0/10

The Net
1995
6.0/10

Inception
2010
8.4/10

Transcendence
2014
6.1/10

Resurrecting the Champ
2007
6.3/10

Paycheck
2003
6.2/10

Home
2021
6.7/10

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
2004
5.9/10

The MacKintosh Man
1973
6.1/10

Eagle Eye
2008
6.5/10

The Imitation Game
2014
8.0/10

My Dinner with Hervé
2018
6.3/10

Flash of Genius
2008
6.6/10

Ghost in the Shell
2017
6.1/10

The Kentuckian
1955
5.8/10

The Amateur
2025
6.9/10
Confucius
1940
6.5/10