Biography
Brian Knappenberger is an award-winning filmmaker whose latest film, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and won a Writers Guild Award. His previous work includes We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, about the online hacktivist non-group Anonymous, the award-winning documentary series Truth And Power, and numerous other investigative documentaries for PBS, Pivot, Bloomberg Television, National Geographic, and The Discovery Channel.
Sundance Film Festival
Director
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| 2024 |
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (series) |
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We Are Not Dead Yet (E09) |
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Moscow Will Not Be Silent (E08) |
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The End of History (E07) |
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| 2023 |
Scout's Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America |
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| 2022 |
Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet (series) |
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The Stingray, Part 2 (E06) |
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The Stingray, Part 1 (E05) |
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Sextortion (E04) |
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| 2021 |
Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror (series) |
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Graveyard of Empires (E05) |
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The Good War (E04) |
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The Dark Side (E03) |
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| 2020 |
Church and the Fourth Estate |
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The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez (series) |
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Evil in This Courtroom (E02) |
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A Shock to the System (E01) |
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| 2017 |
Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press |
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| 2014 |
Ice Warriors: USA Sled Hockey |
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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz |
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| 2012 |
Storyville: How Hackers Changed the World - We Are Legion |
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Screenwriter
| Documentaries | ||
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| 2021 |
Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror (series) |
|
Graveyard of Empires (E05) |
||
The Good War (E04) |
||
The Dark Side (E03) |
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| more episodes (2) | ||
| 2020 |
Church and the Fourth Estate |
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| 2017 |
Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press |
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| 2014 |
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz |
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| 2012 |
Storyville: How Hackers Changed the World - We Are Legion |
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Cinematographer
| Documentaries | |
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| 2014 |
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz |
Producer
| Documentaries | |
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| 2012 |
Storyville: How Hackers Changed the World - We Are Legion |
Actor
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| 2021 |
The Face of Anonymous |