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The Great Hack

2019 114 min ★ 6.9 Documentary

Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable, personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.

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Cast

Brittany Kaiser

Self - Former Dir. of Business Development, Cambridge Analytica

David Carroll

Self - Associate Professor Parsons School of Design

Paul-Olivier Dehaye

Self - Founder @PersonalDataIO

Ravi Naik

Self - Data Rights Solicitor

Julian Wheatland

Self - Former COO/CFO Cambridge Analytica/SCL

Carole Cadwalladr

Self - Investigative Journalist for The Guardian

Christopher Wiley

Self - Former Cambridge Analytica Employee and Whistleblower

Paul Hilder

Self - Writer/Political Technologist

Emma Graham-Harrison

Self - International Affairs Correspondent, The Observer

Gill Phillips

Self - Legal Council, The Guardian

Details

Director

Karim Amer

Tagline

"They took your data. Then they took control."

Status

Released

Original Language

Production

Noujaim Films, The Othrs

Reviews

CinemaSerf

September 14, 2026

★ 7/10

With so much currently being said about the abilities of AI to run amok, it's quite useful to turn the clock back to this documentary and appreciate that many of the issues being discussed now could have been foretold a decade ago. The focus of this rather lengthy and erratically paced film is a company called Cambridge Analytica - a business built from nothing that specialised in tracking and pro...