Editing Surveillance (section)

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{{Main|List of films featuring surveillance}}

* The film ''[[Gattaca]]'' portrays a society that uses [[biometric]] surveillance to distinguish between people who are genetically engineered "superior" humans and genetically natural "inferior" humans.
* In the movie ''[[Minority Report (film)|Minority Report]]'', the police and government intelligence agencies use [[micro aerial vehicles]] in [[SWAT]] operations and for surveillance purposes.
* [[HBO]]'s crime-drama series ''[[The Sopranos]]'' regularly portrays the FBI's surveillance of the [[DiMeo Crime Family]]. Audio devices they use include "[[Covert listening device|bugs]]" placed in strategic locations (e.g., in "[[I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano]]" and "[[Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood]]") and hidden microphones worn by operatives (e.g., in "[[Rat Pack (The Sopranos)|Rat Pack]]") and informants (e.g., in "[[Funhouse (The Sopranos)|Funhouse]]", "[[Proshai, Livushka]]" and "[[Members Only (The Sopranos)|Members Only]]"). Visual devices include [[hidden cameras|hidden still cameras]] (e.g., in "[[Pax Soprana]]") and video cameras (e.g., in "[[Long Term Parking]]").
* The movie ''[[THX-1138]]'' portrays a society wherein people are drugged with sedatives and antidepressants, and have surveillance cameras watching them everywhere they go.
* The movie ''[[The Lives of Others]]'' portrays the monitoring of [[East Berlin]] by agents of the [[Stasi]], the [[East Germany|GDR]]'s secret police.
* The movie ''[[The Conversation]]'' portrays many methods of [[Eavesdropping|audio surveillance]].
* The movie ''[[V for Vendetta (film)|V for Vendetta]]'', a 2005 [[List of dystopian films|dystopian]] [[Political thriller|political thriller film]] directed by [[James McTeigue]] and written by [[the Wachowskis]], is about British government trying to brainwash people by media, obtain their support by fearmongering, monitor them by mass surveillance devices, and suppress or kill any political or social objection.
* The movie ''[[Enemy of the State (film)|Enemy of the State]]'' a 1998 American [[Action film|action]]-[[thriller film]] directed by [[Tony Scott]] is about using U.S. citizens' data to search their background and surveillance devices to capture everyone that is identified as "enemy".
*The British TV series ''[[The Capture (TV series)|The Capture]]'' explores the potential for video surveillance to be manipulated in order to support a conviction to pursue a political agenda.