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The Great Hack

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Directed by Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
Produced by Karim Amer, Pedro Kos, Geralyn White Dreyfous, and Judy Korin
Written by Karim Amer, Erin Barnett, and Pedro Kos
With: Brittany Kaiser, David Carroll, Paul-Olivier Dehaye, Ravi Naik, Julian Wheatland, Carole Cadwalladr, Paul Hilder, Christopher Wylie, Emma Graham-Harrison, Gill Phillips, Sarah Donaldson, and Roger McNamee
Cinematography: Basil Childers and Ian Moubayed
Editing: Erin Barnett and Carlos Rojas
Music: Gil Talmi
Runtime: 113 min
Release Date: 24 July 2019
Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1
Color: Color
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Effectively explores how data has been weaponized in politics and the culture wars by getting up close and personal with many of the main players in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but, like too many political and journalistic docs, it's hard to imagine that it will have any impact on the dangers it exposes.