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An unexpected pregnancy ends an ace fighter pilot’s career in the sky. Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns to her family each night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away.

Anne Hathaway as The Pilot in George Brant's "Grounded"

bitplane by Bureau of Inverse Technology

A radio-controlled airplane, equipped with a video camera and transmitter was launched, In 1997, on a series of sorties over the Silicon Valley in California. 

Guided by the live video feed from the plane, the pilot on the ground was able to steer the plane deep into the glittering heartlands of the Information Age. They were critiquing the economics of the area, the infrastructure of technology, the sites where secret research takes place, the locales where aircraft systems are thought-up and built. 

The bitplane sidestepped regulations.It was illegal to fly remotely controlled aircraft within 5 miles of an airport. There were 3 airports within 5 miles of the bitplane flight path. The bitplane also violated FCC communications regulations by transmitting live video on a cable television channel, which somewhat brilliantly, inserted the bitplane‘s “gods-eye view” of the Silicon Valley into the regularly-scheduled television viewing of the households below its flight path. 

The bitplane exposed layers of policing and control over what seemed to be transparent airspace. Bureau of Inverse Technology‘s work revealed the growing capabilities of UAV technologies, but also uses these very capabilities to turn the gaze towards the manifucturers and users of these devices. 

 This is a classic act of tactical media, a form of activist art practice, that goes beyond mere revelation, and actively intervenes within a system deemed to be morally, politically or ethically problematic.

source: Unmanned Aerial Ecologies: proto-drones, airspace and canaries in the mine

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''Drones'' [2013]

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Mohajer [1990]

Iranian movie - A man who controls small airplanes to detect Iraq's front line is put in jeopardy of not being able to return.

  

 

Full Contact (2015

French drone pilot flies drones in the Middle East from Nevada in the United States. He carries out a drone strike on a building to kill a terrorist inside, but he discovers afterward that the building was a school for boys.

Force Majeure [2014]

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''Domino'' [2019]

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Hover (2018)

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''Stealth'' [2005]

 

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Rotor DR1 (2015)

 

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Unmanned: America's Drone Wars [2013]

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Unmanned includes more than seventy interviews. Prominent among these are a former American drone operator, Pakistani families of drone victims who are seeking legal redress, high ranking politicians and some of the military’s top brass, warning against blowback from the loss of innocent life. 

With the intent of humanizing those who have been impacted by US drone policy, Unmanned intersperses these interviews with never-before-seen footage from tribal regions in Pakistan. 

The film claims that covert military drone strikes are often imprecise, and result in creating more enemies for the American people, who have little knowledge of how drone victims are targeted and killed.

Slaughterbots [2017]

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The video was released onto YouTube by the Future of Life Institute and Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at Berkeley, on 12 November 2017. 

The video quickly went viral, gaining over two million views. 

The video was also screened to the November 2017 United Nations Convention  in Geneva.