Bitcoin cinema
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Films, studios and the people building a culture around Bitcoin.
Films that define Bitcoin cinema
Our editorial starting point: the titles with the strongest mix of Bitcoin importance, cultural reach, BFF relevance, and public documentation.
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- Aimy in a Cage
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Bitcoin Heist
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Bitcoin Season
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Bitcoiners
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Cold Wallet
- Death Athletic: A Dissident Architecture
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Dirty Coin: The Bitcoin Mining Documentary
- Dutch & Razzlekhan
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God Bless Bitcoin
- Hotel Bitcoin
- Human B
- Immutable Democracy
- LifeHack
- Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery
- New Money
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No More Inflation
- One Attempt Remaining
- Revolución Bitcoin
- Satoshi, the Creation of Bitcoin
- Silk Road
- Sovereign
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The 1Up Fever
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The Bitcoin Executor
- The Gimp and the Hitman
- The Great Reset and the Rise of Bitcoin
- The New Radical
- The Satoshi Affair
- The Satoshi Mystery
- Unbankable
- What the F*ck Is My Password?!
During a global virus outbreak, teenage orphan Aimy Micry is locked inside her family's apartment and threatened with a mind-altering procedure meant to make her obedient. Her rebellion turns the enclosed family home into a surreal, increasingly violent fantasy world.
Interpol agent DaDa assembles a team of criminals to capture The Ghost, a hacker laundering billions in Bitcoin. A magician, a father-and-daughter grifter team, a gamer-hacker and an accountant become an unlikely crime- fighting crew in Ham Tran's Vietnamese action comedy.
Bitcoin Season follows Swan Bitcoin as it builds Bitcoin-only partnerships inside professional basketball. With access to the Cleveland Cavaliers and Klutch Sports, Mike Nicoll's documentary frames money, athlete agency and institutional adoption as parts of the same cultural shift.
Filmed from 2021 to 2023, this independent documentary follows a group of Bitcoin devotees in Texas and asks why they believe Bitcoin can change America. It combines the personal story of Kyle Murphy with conversations with well-known voices from the Bitcoin community.
After losing everything in a cryptocurrency scam, a team of Redditors tracks down the financial influencer they blame and attempts a kidnapping to recover their money. The plan becomes a darkly comic home-invasion thriller about class, revenge and the people who control digital wealth.
Over seven years, Jessica Solce follows Cody Wilson through federal battles, personal struggles and the growth of the 3D-printed-gun community. The result is an intimate portrait of a techno-political fight over publishing code, information and First Amendment freedom.
A feature documentary that goes inside Bitcoin mining's server rooms, power grids and surrounding communities, from rural Texas to the mountains of Malawi and across four continents. Interviews with energy experts, miners and local residents examine both the controversy around mining's energy use and the case for data centres as drivers of energy infrastructure. The feature expands Alana Mediavilla's short film STRANDED.
A dramatisation of the 2016 Bitfinex hack and the years-long effort to launder the stolen Bitcoin by Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan and Ilya "Dutch" Lichtenstein. The story follows the couple's relationship, their public personas and the FBI pursuit that led to their 2022 arrest.
Through conversations with Bitcoin experts, financial voices and interfaith religious leaders, the film asks how money shapes the lives of working and poor communities. It argues that inflation, inequality and war are connected to a monetary system that needs a moral and practical alternative.
Four friends discover a laptop containing 4,000 bitcoins and decide they only have to protect it until Monday. Their hotel refuge becomes a comic pressure cooker of wild parties, loansharks, crime, unexpected romance and the risk of losing both the money and one another.
Jan, an editor and musician between jobs, begins investigating fiat money and follows the questions into the Bitcoin rabbit hole. The journey moves through Germany, Austria, Mexico and Miami, meeting people whose own experiences make the abstract idea of Bitcoin personal.
The film follows Simple Proof's implementation of an immutable backup for Guatemala's 2023 presidential election. It shows how election documents were hashed and timestamped so that the public could check when records existed and whether they had been altered.
Four teenage gamers who spend their time pranking online scammers decide to target a tech billionaire's cryptocurrency wallet. The screenlife thriller follows their bedroom heist as social engineering, family pressure and the consequences of their success push the group into danger.
Filmmaker Cullen Hoback follows a globe-spanning investigation into Bitcoin's origins and the identity of its pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. The film combines interviews with early Bitcoin contributors, archival clues and a wider question about who controls the power and wealth attached to Bitcoin.
IT specialist Taavi and teacher Liisa wake up to an absurdly large fortune of 50 million euros in Bitcoin. A tabloid interview brings anonymous insults, unwanted offers and a con artist into their lives, forcing the couple to test what sudden wealth changes — and what it reveals.
Bitcoin Shooter travels through places affected by inflation and monetary instability, asking why everyday costs keep rising and what people can do about it. The film combines field stories with interviews featuring more than twenty economists, educators, Bitcoin voices and people living through monetary debasement.
Years after an acrimonious divorce, an ex-couple learns that the cryptocurrency they won on a crazy night on a cruise is now worth millions — but they have forgotten the password. With only three days before the account expires, they retrace that night to recover the fortune and rediscover why they fell in love.
This Spanish-language documentary gives voice to prominent Bitcoin figures in the Spanish-speaking world and follows the impact and evolution of Bitcoin as a store of value. It connects perspectives from Spain and Latin America with the wider question of what a new monetary technology changes in everyday life.
A two-minute poetic short by Arthur Machado that approaches the creation of Bitcoin as an audiovisual origin story. The film is a compact work rather than a conventional explanatory documentary.
Ross Ulbricht builds the Silk Road, an online marketplace that grows into a billion-dollar dark-web empire, while a DEA agent works to bring him down. The film follows the idealism, ambition, and consequences behind the marketplace.
Jerry Kane, an out-of-work roofer and struggling single father, draws his homeschooled teenage son Joe into the sovereign citizen movement. As they travel the country selling debt-relief seminars, Joe begins to question his father's worldview and the family collides with a police chief.
Berlin goes wild for an augmented-reality street game that lets players win Bitcoins. Silvia Dal Dosso's mockumentary mixes a fictional app, a real city and a playful transmedia campaign about technology becoming a social fever.
An economics professor named Ken becomes the executor of a will for Dr. Dean Sinautra, a friend and colleague who has mysteriously disappeared. Although philosophically opposed, Ken takes on the task of personally delivering a set of Bitcoin hardware wallets to Dean's chosen heirs. In the process Ken attempts to find clues that could solve the mystery of Dean's disappearance. The discoveries made along the way force him to question the things he thought he knew so well.
A scheming couple try to embezzle the Bitcoin fortune of a wealthy professor who has put his entire net worth into Bitcoin. A dark comedy-thriller of manipulation, seduction, and double-crosses, shot in Athens.
A documentary examining the global monetary system, central banking, and the case for Bitcoin through interviews and a critique of the proposed Great Reset. It connects monetary history with the people building an alternative financial system.
Adam Bhala Lough follows Cody Wilson and Amir Taaki, two radically different figures who join forces around Dark Wallet and a broader challenge to government, corporate power and surveillance. The film moves between their activism, the technology they build and the journalists, lawyers and officials trying to understand its consequences.
This feature-length film is based on Andrew O'Hagan's long-form article “The Satoshi Affair.” It follows the dramatic events that led O'Hagan to investigate the figure known as Satoshi Nakamoto and his pursuit of the truth behind Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator.
The six-part series begins with Bitcoin's launch during the financial crisis and follows the technology, communities and ideas that shaped its early history. It also investigates the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, who disappeared after creating the pseudonymous project.
Over seven years and across seven African countries, Luke Willms listens to people building financial systems outside the traditional banking model. His investigation connects microfinance, community lending, mobile money and digital finance to a wider question: can Africa's experience help renew the West?
A self-proclaimed failure learns that he invested in Bitcoin while drunk on graduation night more than 13 years earlier and that the holding is now worth more than $200 million. After the first password attempt fails, he has four tries and seven days to recover the fortune before it disappears forever.
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