Zero Days (2016)

Zero Days: Directed by Alex Gibney. With Sergey Ulasen, Eric Chien, Eugene Kaspersky, Vitaly Kamluk. A documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware 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.

“This documentary about the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iranu0026#39;s uranium centrifuges tries to get at the truth about who was behind the attack. The movie shows interviews with a lot of high-ranking people who either wonu0026#39;t talk or who will only comment about very public information. The facts are that Stuxnet was a large and very sophisticated computer virus, ultimately capable of infecting any Windows PC but it only activated inside of very specialized equipment: one brand of programmable logic controllers attached to a very specific configuration of machines. The target pattern matched Iranu0026#39;s uranium enrichment facility.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movieu0026#39;s point is that, like the Trinity atomic test in New Mexico in 1945, Stuxnet has let another genie out of the weapons bottle. This genie is cyber weapons that can strike anywhere on the planet essentially in an instant.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf that makes you nervous, then the movie has met the filmmakeru0026#39;s objective.”