Dark Net

Explores the furthest reaches of the internet and the people who frequently use it, providing a revealing and cautionary look inside a vast cyber netherworld.

10 Votes (7.1)

2016 HD 30min TV-MA United States English Ended
Documentary
internet computer internet culture

Credits:

Mati Kochavi

director

S1E1 - Crush 2016-01-21

A cyber BDSM couple; virtual love; a life upended.

S1E2 - Upgrade 2016-01-28

Moms RFID chip; swapping an eye for a camera; "world most connected man."

S1E3 - Exploit 2016-02-04

Children forced to perform on camera; revealing the roots of pedophilia.

S1E4 - CTRL 2016-02-11

Content moderators; the prison of the unplugged; blackhat hacker.

S1E5 - Trapped 2016-02-18

Online cults; Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity; a quadriplegics robotics.

S1E6 - Rewire 2016-02-25

Porn addiction; autistic technologists; cognition-enhancing supplements.

S1E7 - Provoke 2016-03-03

Cyberbanging; bloggers turn the tables on trolls; Abdullah X.

S1E8 - Revolt 2016-03-10

Reporting abuse; discovering new worlds; building guns.

S2E1 - My Mind 2017-04-06

Rapid technological advancements are allowing machines to divine the inner workings of our minds like never before. Now that we have given the machines the keys to our mind, what happens next? In this episode, meet Harmony, the worlds first artificially intelligent sex robot; a woman who spends her days and nights uploading her mind to the algorithm; and a family whose lives were torn apart by over a decade of war - only to be saved by virtual reality.

S2E2 - My Justice 2017-04-13

Online, any of us can become judge, jury and executioner. But in this ever-shifting digital world, how do we draw the line between the rule of law, and a digital lynch mob? In this episode, an amateur sleuth seeks justice in the case of a young womans mysterious death - only to discover that the accused killer is the real victim. Elsewhere, a digital activist takes a stand for social justice then finds himself forced to choose between prison and exile.

S2E3 - My Money 2017-04-20

Our lives revolve around money. But a new world order is emerging, one with the power to create currency and bypass governments and regulation. In this episode, enter the world of digital money: from the recesses of the dark net marketplace to workers in China excavating a new form of money; to bitcoin miners struggling to cope with a potentially volatile algorithm; to a young cam worker whose sexual fetishes link them all together.

S2E4 - My Nation 2017-04-27

The internet was hailed for democratizing ideas. But it is also an arena where conspiracy theories and polarizing echo chambers thrive. In this episode, meet an Alt-Right organizer whos using his social network to urge online sympathizers to join his real world rebellion; the desperate parents of a 17-year-old girl, brainwashed into posting White Nationalist YouTube videos; plus, an American-born former Al-Qaeda recruiter whos had a prolific effect on support for jihad.

S2E5 - My Identity 2017-05-04

Our face is our most distinguishable feature. But to machines, our face is data and its being transformed into a faceprint in somebody elses database. In this episode, meet a man whose life was ruined after facial recognition technology tied him to a crime he didnt commit; a father whos wired his home with face recognition technology to keep his autistic daughter safe; plus, exclusive access to the FBI Biometric Technology Center, where over half of Americans biometrics have been uploaded into a database.

S2E6 - My Home 2017-05-11

The digital era offers us new technologies to protect ourselves, but are these devices defending our homes or making them more vulnerable? In this episode meet a woman whose home is invaded by a Ratter, a digital stalker who gains entry through her laptop; enter a neighborhood where residents are battling over proposed camera surveillance to monitor everyones coming and goings; and a sex offender who received the ultimate punishment for invading his victims privacy - life under constant surveillance.

S2E7 - My Community 2017-05-18

Communities are the bedrock of society - physical spaces where residents share a collective purpose and common goals. But the internet has given rise to a new kind of community where lies and hate can flourish. In this episode meet a would-be utopia in Spain where civic life is managed on Twitter; a teacher who becomes the target of a digital lynch mob; and the father of a school shooting victim who must prove to the internet that his son existed.

S2E8 - My Relationship 2017-05-25

Humans are social beings - but what happens when the emotional bonds that bind us together are threatened by forces we cannot see or touch, or worse, replaced entirely by the network? In this episode, meet a woman who has programmed her dead friend into a chat bot so he can live on forever; a Japanese family who has adopted a childlike AI robot as a member of their tribe; and a desperate mom turning to spyware to track her teenagers every move. Season finale.