Tetris in the Media

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Blue Scuti: Tetris Crasher 
(2025 - DOCUMENTERY)

Blue Scuti: Tetris Crasher is a coming-of-age documentary by Chris Moukarbel that follows 13-year-old Willis Gibson (Blue Scuti), who made history in December 2023 by becoming the first person to crash Classic Tetris at level 157 during a livestream from his bedroom. The film traces his rise from school and clarinet practice to global fame, touching on grief after his father’s death, the tight-knit Tetris community, and the pressure of competitive gaming. Premiering at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival, it celebrates both a historic achievement and the human story behind it.

BEST OF FIVE 
(2024 - 5 EPISODE DOCUMENTARY SERIES)

In 2014, the Classic Tetris World Championship reached a pivotal moment. For the first four years, Jonas Neubauer reigned supreme, winning every tournament. In its fifth year, a documentary crew followed key players determined to achieve one goal: Beat Jonas. This five-episode documentary series captures the essence of the tournament, the players, and what it means to be the champion of an "unwinnable" game. Throughout the episodes, we meet the key players, watch nine full matches with new commentary by Chris Tang and James Chen, and witness this historic tournament in stunning 4K UHD. It's a must-watch for any fan of Classic Tetris. Directed by Chris Higgins.

TETRIS 
(2023  -  MOVIE)

Tetris is a 2023 biographical thriller film based on true events around the race to license and patent the video game Tetris from Russia in the late 1980s during the Cold War. It was directed by Jon S. Baird and written by Noah Pink. The film stars Taron Egerton, Nikita Efremov, Sofia Lebedeva, and Anthony Boyle. The story of how one of the world's most popular video games found its way to players around the globe. Businessman Henk Rogers and Tetris inventor Alexey Pazhitnov join forces in the USSR, risking it all to bring it to the masses.

ECSTASY OF ORDER
(2011  -  DOCUMENTERY)

Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters is a 2011 documentary film that follows the lives of several gamers from around the country as they prepare to compete in the 2010 Classic Tetris World Championship. It recounts the development and rise of Tetris as one of the most-played video games of all time, the role it has played in shaping the lives of the gamers it chronicles, the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of former Nintendo World Champion Thor Aackerlund, and the conception and execution of the first-ever Classic Tetris World Championship by gaming enthusiast Robin Mihara.

THE STORY OF TETRIS
(2019  -  YOUTUBE DOCUMENTARY)

This fantastic documentary was created by Norman Caruso, better known on YouTube as The Gaming Historian. In 1984, during the Cold War, a Russian programmer named Alexey Pajitnov created something special: A puzzle game called Tetris. It soon gained a cult following within the Soviet Union. A battle for the rights to publish Tetris erupted when the game crossed the Iron Curtain. Tetris not only took the video game industry by storm, but it also helped break the boundaries between the United States and the Soviet Union.

THE TETRIS MURDERS
(2022  -  3 EPISODE DOCUMENTARY SERIES)

On September 22, 1998, Vladimir Pokhilko, who was involved with the early development of Tetris, was found dead alongside his wife and their young son in their Palo Alto, California, home. Now, more than two decades later, the Palo Alto Police investigators who were first on the scene revisit the haunting crime. Over the course of this gripping three-part series, the investigators unearth new theories and evidence, further unraveling the mystery of this crime.

TETRIS: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
(2004  -  BBC TV DOCUMENTARY)

This is the story behind the fiendishly addictive game, a tale of high stakes, intimidation and legal feuds set against the backdrop of Cold War tensions between East and West. This documentary takes us back to the origins of the game in Russia as systems at the Moscow Computing School were being developed and pushed as to what they could do and one programmer starts experimenting with falling shapes based on a famous jigsaw puzzle. 

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