This 2022 documentary traces the extraordinary rise and unraveling of the man behind one of the world's best-known antivirus programs.
What is Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee about?
Long before he became a fugitive chased across continents, John McAfee was the software pioneer whose antivirus program became a household name in the early days of personal computing. Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee follows that arc from innovation to infamy, tracing how a career built on solving one of computing's earliest security problems gave way to a life defined by conspiracy, controversy and, eventually, death. Rather than treating McAfee as a single-note figure, the film pieces together interviews and archival material to show how a man once celebrated for his technical breakthroughs became one of the tech industry's most unpredictable public figures. It is less a straightforward biography than an attempt to make sense of a life that resists easy explanation.
About the cast
The documentary draws its story directly from John McAfee himself, using his own words, interviews and archival appearances as the throughline of the film. There is no dramatized cast to speak of — the power of the film rests on how much access it has to McAfee's own account of his life, set against the public record of what actually happened around him.
Context & significance
Directed by Charlie Russell, the film is a United Kingdom production that fits within the true-crime documentary genre, sitting at the intersection of tech history and criminal intrigue. Running 105 minutes, it has room to move chronologically from McAfee's software career through the years that made him a recurring headline for reasons that had nothing to do with computing.
Watching Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee on Ktime
Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login. The platform's Farsi-language interface is built for Persian-speaking viewers, making documentaries like this one easy to find and watch from anywhere without pricing gimmicks or bundled extras standing in the way.