Synopsis: The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.
Trailer:Full film:via boingboing (http://boingboing.net/2014/06/29/internets-own-boy-free-cc-l.html)
The Creative Commons-licensed version of The Internet's Own Boy, Brian Knappenberger's documentary about Aaron Swartz, is
now available on the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz), which is especially useful for people outside of the US, who aren't able to pay to see it online (http://vimeo.com/ondemand/internetsownboy). It's a remarkable movie and I hope you make some time to watch it. The Internet Archive makes the movie available to download or stream, in MPEG 4 and Ogg. There's also a torrentable version (https://archive.org/download/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz_archive.torrent).