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61) Silicon Cowboys
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM for PC supremacy. Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know.. Winner of the Special Jury Prize - New Jersey Films Competition for Archival Filmmaking at the Montclair Film Festival.. "A fascinating account of maverick innovators during the Wild West era of personal computing." -...
63) Bet Raise Fold
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows a new generation of internet poker professionals during the meteoric rise and sudden crash of the multibillion dollar online poker industry of the 2000s.. For millions of young people, online poker was more than a game, it was a lifestyle. It was an opportunity to live completely outside the system, to discover your true identity and get rich doing something you truly love. All the elements that made poker such an integral...
64) A Gamer's Life
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Follow two professional gamers as they reveal the secrets behind making a living by playing games. With never-before-seen gameplay footage, and featuring appearances from Lindsay Elyse, David Walsh, Andy Dudynsky, Aaron Elam, and more, A GAMER’S LIFE goes behind-the-scenes of a career life that others consider as a hobby.
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A look at the social media phenomenon known as "sexting" -- the process of sending sexually explicit photos via text messages or on the Internet. The film explores scandals sexting has caused as well as the ways it can actually benefit healthy relationships.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For centuries, rice farmers on the island of Bali have taken great care not to offend Dewi Danu, the water goddess who dwells in the crater lake near the peak of Batur volcano. Toward the end of each rainy season, the farmers send representatives to Ulun Danu Batur, the temple at the top of the mountain, to offer ducks, pigs, coins and coconuts in thanks for the water that sustains their terraced fields.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the worlds largest personal computer software company. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the computer programming language, BASIC, for the firt microcomputer. Guided by a belief that the computer will be a common tool in the home and office, Gates left Harvard to bdevote his energies to Microsoft, the company he had begun in 1975 with his childhhod friend Paul Allen....
68) Her
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his new computer operating system, which has a female voice and personality.
69) Singularity
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sixty years after a super computer nearly destroys mankind, teenagers Andrew and Calia join forces to escape the robot army and find a mythical land where humans live without fear of persecution.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A space voyage to Jupiter erupts in disaster when the ship's computer goes mad. Includes commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, documentary - 2001: The Making Of A Myth, 4 featurettes, audio-only interview with Stanley Kubrick, and trailer.
72) Ancient computer
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
An unpromising lump of metal found in a 2,000-year-old shipwreck turns out to be an extraordinary treasure: the world's first computer. NOVA follows the ingenious detective work that painstakingly discovered the truth about the ancient Greek device: it was an astonishingly sophisticated astronomical calculator and eclipse predictor, unrivaled until the era of modern science and believed to be from the workshop of Archimedes.
73) Stanley Kubrick
Publisher
[Binge box]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
2001: a space odyssey: While a team of astronauts journey through space on a mission, their ship's computer system begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine.
A clockwork orange: In an England of the future, Alex spends his nights getting high and committing violence.
Eyes wide shut: After Dr. Bill Hartford's wife admits to having sexual fantasies about another man, he becomes obsessed...