Ted Kaczynski

Ted Kaczynski

Born: May 22, 1942
Died: June 10, 2023
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Theodore John Kaczynski (May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. He was a mathematics prodigy but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a more primitive life. Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski killed three people and injured 23 others in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the environment. He authored Industrial Society and Its Future, a 35,000-word manifesto and social critique opposing industrialization, rejecting leftism, and advocating for a nature-centered form of anarchism.

Movies for Ted Kaczynski...

Title: Unabomber: In His Own Words
Character: Self - The Unabomber (archive footage)
Released: February 22, 2020
Type: TV
Anchored by a rare interview, this docuseries details Ted Kaczynski's path from a young intellectual to one of the most feared people in US history.
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Stemple Pass
Title: Stemple Pass
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Four landscape shots containing a replica of Ted Kaczynski’s cabin, one shot per season. On the soundtrack, Benning reads extracts from Kaczynski’s journals from the early 1970s, recording his progress at hunting and gathering, and his connection to the Montana wilderness; a hand-written folded sheet of paper detailing his acts of “monkey wrenching” and first attempts at planting bombs; two notebooks written in numerical code in 1985 and decoded by Benning in 2011; two excepts from Industrial Society and Its Future by "FC" (aka the Unabomber Manifesto) as published in The New York Times and The Washington Post in 1995; and a 2001 interview with Kaczynski by J. Alienus Rychalski, special correspondent for the Blackfoot Valley Dispatch.
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Unabomber: The Secret History
Title: Unabomber: The Secret History
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 14, 2008
Type: Movie
An overview on the actions, hunt and capture of Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber.
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Das Netz_GO TO TRIAL
Title: Das Netz_GO TO TRIAL
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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The Net
Title: The Net
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 1, 2003
Type: Movie
More of a film essay - of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker - than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck's The Net: The Unabomber, the LSD and the Internet begins with the typical format and structure of a nonfiction film, and a single subject (the life and times of mail bomber Ted Kaczynski). From that thematic springboard, Dammbeck branches out omnidirectionally, segueing into a series of thematic riffs and variants on such marginally-related subjects as: the history of cyberspace, terrorism, utopian ideals, LSD, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.