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“Stuxnet” was the tech-security community’s codename for a pernicious piece of self-replicating malware that first began to target Iranian nuclear facilities in the latter half of the 2000’s. In Zero Days, Academy Award®-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine) traces Stuxnet’s origins to an unacknowledged sabotage campaign, by means of cyber disruption, jointly initiated by the U.S. and Israeli governments. What started as a relatively contained operation, however, soon spread beyond its intended target, prompting a series of urgent moral and operational questions—which have been made all the more challenging to answer because of the classified nature of the military operation. With Zero Days, “a fast-moving and nerve-racking thriller,” in the words of the BBC’s Nicholas Barber, Gibney and his on- and off-the-record military subjects uncover a clandestine new frontier of global warfare whose destructive power is exceeded only by nuclear combat.
Director Alex Gibney 2016 United States 116 minutes NR DCP
