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2. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story Of Aaron Swartz

Tomatometer rating: 93%Gross: $48,911 Documentaries rarely do all that well at the box office. Docs like Fahrenheit 9/11 (over $220 million worldwide) and An Inconvenient Truth ($49 million worldwide) are anomalies more than anything, movies that tapped into something at the right time and managed to get bums on seats largely through word-of-mouth. The Internet's Own Boy, however, certainly didn't deserve the indignity of not even making the $50,000 mark, not least because its subject deserves to be made a household name, up there with Assange and Snowden. The focus of Brian Knappenberger's well-made doc is Aaron Swartz, the boy genius computer programmer who got rich quick, became an internet celebrity and federally-investigated activist, then committed suicide aged 26. It's a predictably compelling story, but also a heartbreaking one, telling of someone punished for the sin of believing information should be readily available to all. Anyone angry about systemic injustice or passionate about change should see it and get inspired.