The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
2014 · Documentary · 105 min. · United States
As a teenager, Aaron Swartz was a computer-programming prodigy with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. After emerging as a pioneer of Internet activism, education, and politics, he was indicted on multiple federal charges in 2011 and 2012, setting off a complex chain of events that left the Internet community reeling. Shortly thereafter, at the age of 26, Swartz was found dead of an apparent suicide in his Brooklyn apartment. His family, friends, and supporters immediately blamed the prosecutors of the case, who aimed to put him in jail for 35 years and brand him a convicted felon for life. Swartz was persecuted for the very rights and freedoms for which he stood, and that ultimately broke him.
Direction Brian Knappenberger
Cast Aaron Swartz · Tim Berners-Lee · Cindy Cohn · Gabriella Coleman · Cory Doctorow · Peter Eckersley · Brewster Kahle · Lawrence Lessig · Zoe Lofgren · Carl Malamud · Quinn Norton · Tim O'Reilly · Elliot Peters · Alec Resnick · Philip David Segal · Stephen Shultze · David Sirota · Christopher Soghoian · Bryan Stevenson · Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman · Matt Stoller · Ben Swartz · Noah Swartz · Robert Swartz · Susan Swartz · Trevor Timm · Ben Wikler · Ron Wyden
Soundtrack John Dragonetti
Screenplay Brian Knappenberger
Cinematography Lincoln Else · Brian Knappenberger · Scott Sinkler
Original title The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
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