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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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- $BLEEP
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Aimy in a Cage
- Banking on Africa: The Bitcoin Revolution
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Banking on Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Cowboys: Will Wyoming Become the Next Crypto Capital?
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Bitcoin Heist
- Bitcoin Rising: South Africa's Path to Freedom
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Bitcoin Season
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Bitcoin and Friends
- Bitcoin: Digital Gold
- Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It
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Bitcoiners
- Bond to Unbind
- Build on Bitcoin: The Bulgarian Journey
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Cold Wallet
- Comeback Country
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Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet
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Dare to Dream: A Story From El Salvador
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Death Athletic: A Dissident Architecture
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Dirty Coin: The Bitcoin Mining Documentary
- Dutch & Razzlekhan
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Everyone Is Lying to You for Money
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Finding Satoshi
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God Bless Bitcoin
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Gods of Their Own Religion
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Hotel Bitcoin
- Human B
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Hummingbird: The Bitcoin Jungle Story
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Immutable Democracy
- Immutable History
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Life on Bitcoin
- LifeHack
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Menger. Notes on the Margin
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Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery
- New Money
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No More Inflation
- One Attempt Remaining
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Revolución Bitcoin
- Satoshi, the Creation of Bitcoin
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Searching for Satoshi: The Mysterious Disappearance of the Bitcoin Creator
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Seeding Bitcoin: Trezor Academy and Africa's Bitcoin Revolution
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Seeking Satoshi: The Mystery Bitcoin Creator
- Self Custody
- Silk Road
- Sovereign
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The 1Up Fever
- The Bigger Bubble
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The Bitcoin Executor
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The Crypto Castle
- The Fall of 2008
- The Gimp and the Hitman
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The Great Reset and the Rise of Bitcoin
- The Legend of Landi: Requiem for a Floating City
- The Maxis Club Show
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The New Radical
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The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin
- The Satoshi Affair
- The Satoshi Mystery
- This Machine Greens
- Tuttle Twins
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Unbankable
- Unbanked
- What the F*ck Is My Password?!
- Who Is Bitcoin?
Anthology television series exploring Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology through dramatic storytelling, examining financial innovation, digital freedom, and the human stories behind the technology.
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.
One of the first documentaries focused specifically on Bitcoin adoption in Africa, this 48-minute film follows Bitcoin pioneers building financial inclusion across the continent. Centers on Alakanani Itireleng's educational mission at Botswana's SatoshiCentre and grassroots Bitcoin communities throughout the region. Explores how Bitcoin enables leapfrogging traditional banking infrastructure and financial sovereignty in emerging markets. Produced with sponsorship from Luno, a leading cryptocurrency exchange.
Explores the rise of Bitcoin and the personalities behind it, following early adopters and entrepreneurs navigating a financial revolution.
Wyoming pursues becoming the US cryptocurrency capital through novel regulatory policies, including the first SPDI bank charter. The film examines whether this state-level blockchain innovation will succeed or become a cautionary lesson in regulatory approaches.
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.
A field documentary exploring Bitcoin circular economies in South African townships. The film follows merchants, educators, and residents building voluntary monetary systems outside traditional banking—focusing on practical adoption for financial freedom and economic sovereignty.
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.
Animated educational series introducing Bitcoin and cryptocurrency concepts to general audiences through accessible, character-driven storytelling and humor.
This documentary traces the history of money from bartering societies of the ancient world through commodity money, fiat currencies, and the meeting rooms of central bankers to Wall Street trading floors. Bitcoin emerges as a response to inflation and debt-based monetary systems.
Award-winning crash course on the history of money and Bitcoin. The film traces money from ancient barter through modern banking, exposing central bank practices and government influence on currency creation. It examines how Bitcoin emerged as a peer-to-peer alternative to debt-backed fiat currency, questioning the future of decentralized finance.
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.
An experimental documentary exploring El Salvador's groundbreaking decision to make Bitcoin legal tender and challenge US Dollar hegemony. The film examines ideological and economic implications of a nation adopting decentralized currency as official money alongside traditional financial systems.
A documentary exploring grassroots Bitcoin adoption in Bulgaria, examining how cryptocurrency is being adopted at community level and how people's lives are changing as a result. Rather than theoretical analysis, the film focuses on real stories of Bulgarians building a parallel financial system using Bitcoin.
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.
An 11-minute documentary examining El Salvador's complex history: its civil war, gang violence, and Nayib Bukele's policies. The film documents the nation's adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender and presents El Salvador's comeback story through the lens of cryptocurrency's potential to reshape emerging economies.
Five years after his first documentary, award-winning filmmaker Torsten Hoffmann returns to explore Bitcoin's evolution, blockchain innovation, Web3, and whether decentralized technology can provide a robust alternative to the traditional Internet. Featuring insights from Vitalik Buterin, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, and key players across the crypto ecosystem, the film examines DeFi, smart contracts, privacy, and the tension between crypto's utopian promise and competitive power dynamics.
Two young Salvadoran dreamers dedicate themselves to bringing hope and change to their violence-stricken country. An anonymous Bitcoin donor's support catalyzes their mission, leading to historic global change through Bitcoin Beach and El Salvador's revolutionary adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender.
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.
Actor and author Ben McKenzie turns investigator in his directorial debut, pulling back the curtain on cryptocurrency's explosive rise and the culture of hype, misinformation, and speculation fueling it. Through firsthand reporting and expert interviews, the film traces how crypto became one of the most aggressively marketed financial products of the modern era—exposing how warning signs were ignored or deliberately obscured. A cautionary tale and call for accountability that asks: who benefits from the chaos, and who is left to clean up the damage?
Investigative documentary revealing the four-year evidence-based investigation into Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto, featuring William D. Cohan and Tyler Maroney tracing Bitcoin's origins through rare interviews with major crypto figures.
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.
In a technocratic world enforcing obedience under the guise of safety, outsiders risk everything to connect — hunted by a state that erases dissent. Set in dystopian near-future Britain, a defiant band of rebels refuses to conform, forming forbidden connections while evading a system built to monitor, predict and silence opposition.
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.
Hummingbird: The Bitcoin Jungle Story traces the origins of a Bitcoin-friendly organic farmer's market in Uvita, Costa Rica. The documentary weaves together themes of trust, spirituality, and economic innovation, exploring how a jungle community embraced Bitcoin as part of their commitment to decentralized, community-driven commerce. The film follows the people and principles behind Bitcoin Jungle, documenting how an ancient prophecy and modern technology converge in the heart of Central America.
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.
Documentary exploring how Bitcoin's immutable ledger technology can preserve historical truth, prevent censorship, and create permanent records resistant to state manipulation.
In 2013, newly married Austin and Beccy Craig embark on a 100-day experiment living exclusively on Bitcoin. Testing whether cryptocurrency can serve as currency for everyday necessities, they document the pioneers, skeptics, experts, and challenges encountered along the way.
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.
A documentary celebrating Carl Menger's 150-year legacy since the publication of *Principles of Economics*. The film explores both Menger's historical life and contemporary rediscovery of his work, establishing Austrian economics as the intellectual foundation of Bitcoin. Shot across Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, and France, it examines how Menger's revolutionary theory of value and marginal utility shaped economic thought and continues to influence libertarian philosophy today.
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.
Filmmaker Paul Kemp investigates the identity and disappearance of Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, who vanished in 2011 after launching the digital currency. The three-year investigation examines leading candidates and explores why the world's potentially richest anonymous figure hid.
Seeding Bitcoin profiles educators, merchants, and community members across Sub-Saharan Africa using Bitcoin not as speculative asset but as functional monetary infrastructure. Featuring Bitcoin education centers in South Africa where students complete diploma courses and receive bitcoin stipends; merchants who adopted cryptocurrency after learning stablecoin settlement; a woman who traveled 14 hours to attend a grassroots Bitcoin conference; and a former drug addict whose life shifted through engagement with local circular economies. The through-line: financial exclusion. Refugees, orphans, and people without formal addresses or government ID cannot access banks. Bitcoin "doesn't recognize if you're poor or rich, what color your skin is, or whether you have ID." Chainalysis recorded $205 billion in on-chain value across Sub-Saharan Africa (mid-2025), up 52% YoY—third-fastest regional growth globally. Remittance fees (9% via traditional channels, cents on Lightning) and currency instability drive adoption. Trezor Academy has run 300+ meetups, graduated 2,000+ students across 30+ countries, training local educators to build circular economies ground-up.
Journalist Gabriel Gatehouse sets out to solve the greatest mystery in tech: who is Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's elusive creator? His investigation reveals a much bigger story—uncovering how crypto visionaries are building alternative communities and parallel societies free from government control, from Miami to Honduras to New Hampshire's libertarian heartland.
When a struggling father discovers he unknowingly received a Bitcoin bonus back in 2014—now worth millions—his desperate attempt to reclaim the lost fortune sends him spiraling into a high-stakes world of encrypted wallets, forgotten passwords, and dark web danger. With time running out and his family on the line, he must outsmart hackers and confront secrets buried in his past.
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.
The final film in Morrison's "Bubble Films" trilogy examines consequences of a decade of bank bailouts and zero-interest policy. A filmmaker drives 35,000 miles interviewing economists who predicted the housing crash and strategists discussing the next financial crisis.
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.
Documentary series following the story of Rory Johnston and his attempt to establish a Bitcoin sanctuary and cryptocurrency hub in Germany, exploring the vision of digital freedom and the challenges of practical implementation.
Director Jimmy Morrison exposes the Federal Reserve and US government's bailouts and stimulus measures that resulted in the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression, featuring leading libertarian economists and investment experts who predicted the 2008 financial crisis.
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.
Italian entrepreneur Samuele Landi lived 13 months on the Aisland 1 in international waters, pursuing a dream of a sovereign floating city. On February 2, 2024, a rogue wave killed Landi and two crew members, raising questions about freedom, ocean governance, and the cost of radical autonomy.
Web series featuring Bitcoin maximalists, developers, and entrepreneurs discussing Bitcoin culture, technical developments, economic philosophy, and debates about cryptocurrency adoption.
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.
Documentary chronicling Bitcoin's transformation from obscure technology to global financial phenomenon, tracking price rallies, crashes, and the culture of cryptocurrency mining.
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.
Animated educational series following young entrepreneurs learning about economics, freedom, blockchain, and Bitcoin through adventure and real-world problem-solving.
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?
During economic uncertainty, Bitcoin emerges as an alternative to traditional banking. A deep dive into the digital currency revolution reveals both its revolutionary promise and inherent contradictions. Filmed across four continents including Patagonia, Ghana, Nigeria, London, and Portugal, Unbanked explores how millions may find financial freedom by becoming their own banks and cutting out the middleman.
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 $200 million. After the first password attempt fails, he has four tries and seven days to recover the fortune before it disappears forever.
Many have asked the question, "What is Bitcoin?" Few have ever dared to ask, "Who is Bitcoin?" This short film introduces Bitty — a seven-foot-tall anthropomorphic Bitcoin puppet with articulated brows and a moving mouth — built by Spiral to explain Bitcoin's purpose through character and story rather than lectures. Bitty was deliberately designed grumpy because "kids latch onto grouches, and there is a long puppet tradition of it." The film uses real puppetry (a person inside the suit) on purpose, to be surprised by what happened on camera. It passed half a million views and spawned a creative universe of 100+ license-free Bitcoin character assets (SVG/PNG) at herecomesbitcoin.org, plus a plushie, stickers, and a memecoin ($BITTY) that donates 100% of trade taxes to bitcoin.org.
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