Movies and TvShows featuring "game-theory" theme.

After accepting secret work in cryptography, brilliant mathematician John Nash's life turns into a nightmarish struggle with his own mind.

In the movie 'Circle', a group of strangers find themselves trapped in a room with no memory of how they got there. They soon discover that they are part of a deadly game, where they must vote on who gets to live and who dies. As the tension rises, they are forced to confront their deepest fears and make impossible choices in order to survive.

In 'The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom', this documentary delves into the various traps that hinder our pursuit of freedom. It examines topics such as social order, the prisoner's dilemma, self-interest, and the impact of systems and behavioral analysis. It also explores the concept of freedom of choice, social mobility, and the influence of capitalism and wealth inequality. Through archive footage and expert analysis, it offers insights into the complexities of the British class system, economic policy, and the unintended consequences of management and control.

2010 Human Behavioral Biology lectures by Robert Sapolsky

Two perfectly rational gingerbread men, Crispy and Chewy, are out strolling when they’re caught by a fox. Instead of simply eating them, he decides to put their friendship to the test with a cruel dilemma. He’ll ask each gingerbread man whether he’d opt to Spare or Sacrifice the other. What should they choose? Lucas Husted dives into the classic game theory scenario: the Prisoner's Dilemma.

This one simple game will change the way you look at numbers forever! Hackenbush is easy to pick up, but exploring its strategy leads us down a fantastical mathematical rabbit hole, through which can be found the roots of our familiar number system, intricately entangled with a host of new and exotic numeric species lurking alongside them.