The Great Hack

The Great Hack
Official release poster
Directed by
Written by
  • Karim Amer
  • Erin Barnett
  • Pedro Kos
Produced by
Starring
Edited by
Production
company
The Othrs
Distributed byNetflix
Release dates
  • January 26, 2019 (2019-01-26) (Sundance)
  • July 24, 2019 (2019-07-24) (United States)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryUnited States

The Great Hack is a 2019 documentary film about the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, produced and directed by Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, both previous documentary Academy Award nominees (The Square, Control Room, Startup.com).[1][2] The film's music was composed by Emmy-nominated film composer Gil Talmi. The Great Hack premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in the Documentary Premieres section and was released by Netflix on July 24, 2019.[3]

The documentary focuses on Professor David Carroll of Parsons and The New School, Brittany Kaiser (former business development director for Cambridge Analytica), and British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. Their stories interweave to expose the work of Cambridge Analytica in the politics of various countries, including the United Kingdom's Brexit campaign and the 2016 United States elections

  1. ^ "Netflix documentary The Great Hack turns the Cambridge Analytica scandal into high drama". The Verge. July 8, 2019.
  2. ^ "Stream It Or Skip It: 'The Great Hack' On Netflix, A Documentary About How Cambridge Analytica Mined Our Personal Data And Who Blew The Whistle". Decider. 24 July 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  3. ^ "Netflix's The Great Hack Brings Our Data Nightmare to Life". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-09-13 – via www.wired.com.