Zero Days

Name: Zero Days
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 8, 2016
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 77
Cast: David Sanger, Emad Kiyaei, Eric Chien, Liam O'Murchu

2016

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: July 8, 2016 | Approved

Starring: David Sanger, Emad Kiyaei, Eric Chien, Liam O'Murchu

Summary: Zero Days is a documentary thriller about the world of cyberwar. For the first time, the film tells the complete story of Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware (known as a “worm” for its ability to burrow from computer to computer on its own) that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclearZero Days is a documentary thriller about the world of cyberwar. For the first time, the film tells the complete story of Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware (known as a “worm” for its ability to burrow from computer to computer on its own) that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target. Zero Days is the most comprehensive accounting to date of how a clandestine mission hatched by two allies with clashing agendas opened forever the Pandora’s Box of cyberwarfare. Beyond the technical aspects of the story, Zero Days reveals a web of intrigue involving the CIA, the US Military's new cyber command, Israel's Mossad and Operations that include both espionage and covert assassinations but also a new generation of cyberweapons whose destructive power is matched only by Nuclear War.
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Director: Alex Gibney

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 116 min

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RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Jul 8, 2016

Easily the most important film anyone has released this year, it is a documentary that deserves to be seen by every sentient citizen of this country – and indeed the world. Read full review

Peter Debruge

May 24, 2016

Clear, urgent and positively terrifying at times. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Jul 7, 2016

Zero Days has a similarly balanced outlook along with a critical political viewpoint that avoids hysteria and demagogy. Its strongest protest is against what Mr. Gibney sees as the dangers of excessive American secrecy. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jul 7, 2016

But as with every other film in his fast-growing canon, Gibney wields his authoritative research and storytelling skills like a scalpel, getting at a subject we aren’t talking about with blunt facts and informed, cautionary speculation. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Jul 7, 2016

At the end the film turns into an infomercial for President Obama’s Iran deal, but Gibney delivers plenty to think about — and fear. Read full review

Mark Feeney

Jul 7, 2016

There’s one NSA staffer in particular — seen in shadow, her voice altered — who’s the real star of Zero Days. Her reveal is at once solid journalism and dramatic tour de force. It’s a challenge Gibney meets with ease. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Jul 7, 2016

The film’s thoroughness is a virtue or a problem, depending on one’s point of view. Read full review

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Trailesque

Sep 14, 2022

An excellent documentary that dives into the murky and complicated subject of the stuxnet computer virus that attacked iran's nuclear program. As rich a subject as that is, director Gibney does not confine things to just that, and shows us how, like the malware itself, the subject stretchesAn excellent documentary that dives into the murky and complicated subject of the stuxnet computer virus that attacked iran's nuclear program. As rich a subject as that is, director Gibney does not confine things to just that, and shows us how, like the malware itself, the subject stretches out and touches on a lot of major issues. There are fascinating interviews with a lot of major players, and it provides an excellent - and troubling - look at the hidden world of nation-states attacking each other's computer systems.… Expand