Deep Web – Silk Road/Ross Ulbricht Documentary (2015)

"The Deep Web" is directed by Alex Winter, chronicling events surrounding Silk Road, bitcoin and politics of the dark web.

Narrated by Keanu Reeves. The Silk Road, The FBI.

BBC Storyville 2017 Silk Road Drugs Death and the Dark Web

Looks at the black market website known as the Silk Road, which emerged on the darknet in 2011. This ‘Amazon of illegal drugs’ was the brainchild of a mysterious, libertarian intellectual operating under the avatar The Dread Pirate Roberts. Promising its users complete anonymity and total freedom from government regulation or scrutiny, Silk Road became a million-dollar digital drugs cartel.

Homeland Security, the DEA, the FBI and even the Secret Service mounted multiple investigations in the largest online manhunt the world had ever seen.

But it would be a young tax inspector from the IRS, who had grown up in the projects of Brooklyn, who would finally crack the case and unmask ‘DPR’.