The 9 Best Movies About Cyber Warfare, Ranked

The article ranks nine films that explore cyber warfare, from action thrillers and international dramas to documentaries and science fiction. It argues that these stories matter because modern societies rely on computer networks for essential services, leaving infrastructure and military systems exposed to digital attacks.

The examples include *Live Free or Die Hard*, in which a hacker targets US infrastructure, and *Zero Days*, a documentary about the Stuxnet malware operation against Iranian centrifuges, believed to involve the US and Israel. The article says *Zero Days* warns that cyberattacks can cause physical damage and notes that, ten years after its release, no treaty of the kind it advocates has been established. It also revisits *WarGames* (1983), whose story of a teenager accessing a US military system has gained new relevance amid concerns about automation and military power.