The opportunity to be served vintage champagne with bowls of caviar while reaching record speeds that no human had ever experienced before was appealing to many of the world’s richest celebrities and politicians. However, behind the scenes was a far less luxurious scene filled with deceit and back-stabbing that resulted in a disastrous first flight bursting into flames. Concorde: A Supersonic Story presents the true story behind the glamorous aircraft, including rare archival footage never before seen by the public.

Once up and running, the AI algorithm defeated an American Go champion. However, it is not taken seriously by Go enthusiasts in Asia who believed that it hadn’t taken on the world’s best human player. Therefore, a match is arranged between the algorithm and arguably the strongest Go player in the world, South Korean master Lee Sedol, and the bulk of the film is about this showdown between machine and man. The algorithm ended up beating Sedol, a landmark achievement that has been hailed as being a decade ahead of its time.

While Stuxnet was intended to destroy nuclear centrifuges at Iran’s Natanz plant in a military operation known as Olympic , the self-replicating worm inadvertently spread beyond its initial target to other networks across the world. The virus gets its name from a combination of words found within its source code.

Zero Days features interviews with a variety of high-ranking officials and security experts, including researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec, founder and CEO of Kaspersky Labs Eugene Kaspersky, former NSA Deputy Director Chris Inglis, former Cybersecurity Director for the Department of Homeland Security Sean McGurk, Colonel Gary D. Brown of the United States Cyber Command, amongst many others. The film concludes by discussing the development of Nitro Zeus, a sister virus to Stuxnet capable of disabling Iran’s air defences and infrastructure, but was later shelved due to the reaching of the Iran Nuclear Deal.

Pixel Pioneers offers an in-depth look at methods used by early programmers to display graphics, describing the raster and vector technologies used to create like Star Cruiser and Asteroids, and how they have since surpassed many milestones to achieve the stunning visuals featured in modern day .

The second episode deals with car hacking. With ever-increasing technological upgrades to cars, keeping vehicles protected from thieves may not be as easy as simply locking the car. Lastly, the third episode focuses on mobile devices as spy tools that can be working against their owners. Phreaked Out explores the intricacies of hacking and how connectivity, networks, personal data, our physical locations and more may be affected, attacked, and ultimately, exploited.

The documentary, directed by Simon Klose, narrates how the three individuals built the biggest file sharing site on the internet, and how this led to Hollywood instituting a $13 million copyright infringement lawsuit against them. It also explains how the US government threatened the Swedish government with trade sanctions in order to arm-twist it to cooperate in the lawsuit. The film follows the three individuals through the judicial system and highlights the stresses and struggles occasioned by this process.

The film also brings out how a shared passion for technology helps the three hacktivists to come together and establish Pirate Bay. Being computer savvy, they are among the pioneers who seek to use technology in a new and exciting way, and in the process they are able to cement relationships with other people on the internet through file sharing.

After a three year long court case, the three individuals are found guilty and convicted. They are also fined $6.6 million and face time in jail – offline and away from the keyboard. But in hidden data centres, computers silently continue duplicating the files seized by authorities, ensuring that their work still lives on.

The Pirate Bay: Away from Keyboard is a classic portrayal of how zealous corporations attack and instil fear in people so as to ensure that it is business as usual. This leads to inflated costs in the entertainment industry.

In the Jumbo Jet episode, engineers Tom Wriggelsworth and Rob Bell climb onto a 200 tonne Boeing 747. After it’s 36 million miles and 14 years with British Airways, it is broken into thousands of parts and then reassembled and certified to be flown again. Being the first time this process has ever been filmed, the inner workings of a jumbo jet is explained. With similar episodes featuring a gas rig and a ferry, Engineering Giants is able to show the complicated mechanical processes of everyday machines in ways never before seen.

While the film addresses the military applications of drones, such as how the air force is training more ‘desk pilots’ over traditional ones, it also mentions how police forces have started to use them more frequently in order to patrol for criminals. The level of detachment drone operators may feel with respect to their targets is analysed, cautioning that some may see it as nothing more than a computer game behind the safety of a monitor.