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38:53Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox
176K views • 14 years ago
hgoetkehgoetke
An episode of the Norwegian documentary series Brainwash, in which a comedian interviews academics from different sides about gender differences and gender equality. It looks at why more equal societies can still show unequal career choices.
38:53Hjernevask - Brainwashing (Eng Sub) Part 1 - The Gender Equality Paradox
238K views • 12 years ago
The Bookman
First episode of the Norwegian documentary series Hjernevask, in which Harald Eia interviews researchers on the nature versus nurture debate. It focuses on the gender equality paradox and gender differences in career choice.
26:10Tengen: Atari Games vs. Nintendo
2.4M views • 11 years ago
Gaming Historian
Gaming Historian recounts how Atari subsidiary Tengen challenged Nintendo's licensing rules with a lawsuit and unlicensed NES games, including the lockout chip fight.
48:02James Burke Legend Connections 1 The Trigger Effect
389K views • 4 years ago
Tim Callinan
The first episode of James Burke's Connections series, 'The Trigger Effect', explores how modern society depends on interlinked technological systems and how quickly it breaks down when they fail, starting with a power blackout.
51:44The End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak oil
580K views • 20 years ago
endofsuburbia
A 52-minute short version of the documentary The End of Suburbia, about peak oil and the end of cheap energy. It argues that American suburbs depend on cheap oil and may become the slums of the future.
29:21TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)
113.3M views • 7 years ago
melodysheep
A 29-minute cinematic timelapse by melodysheep that journeys trillions of years into the future, covering the death of the sun, the end of stars, proton decay, black hole evaporation and the fate of the cosmos.
1:04:15The Untold Story of Online Gaming on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis | XBAND
619K views • 7 years ago
Wrestling With Gaming
A one-hour documentary on XBAND, the 1994 modem network for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. It covers matchmaking, chat, email, leaderboards and how games were patched at runtime to cope with lag.
1:08:34POLYBIUS - The Video Game That Doesn't Exist
10.1M views • 9 years ago
Ahoy
A 69-minute documentary on the Polybius arcade-game legend. It examines visual, physical and anecdotal evidence, traces the story's source, and concludes the game never existed beyond one website entry.
1:18:52The Cannonball Run Countach: Supercar Legend | Full Documentary
6.6M views • 4 years ago
Hagerty Drivers Foundation
A Hagerty documentary on a 1979 Lamborghini Countach LP400 S and how it ended the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash. It tells the story of the illicit race started by Brock Yates and its Hollywood adaptation.
7:10The Intense 8 Hour Hunt | Attenborough Life of Mammals | BBC Earth
17.1M views • 17 years ago
BBC Earth
A clip from Attenborough's Life of Mammals following a San tribesman in the Kalahari on an eight-hour persistence hunt, running down a kudu through harsh heat. It shows tracking, endurance running and the hunter's reaction after the kill.
42:30The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize
4.2M views • 6 years ago
BobbyBroccoli
BobbyBroccoli's first of three parts on Jan Hendrik Schon, the Bell Labs postdoc whose fabricated organic semiconductor results nearly won a Nobel Prize. It covers his rise and the context around Bell Labs.
1:40:0313TH | FULL FEATURE | Netflix
16.7M views • 6 years ago
Netflix
Ava DuVernay's Oscar-nominated documentary on how the history of racial inequality in the US, from slavery through the 13th Amendment's exception clause, drives mass incarceration. It combines archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars.
59:31The Story of Tetris
4.9M views • 8 years ago
Gaming Historian
Gaming Historian recounts how Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris in the Soviet Union and how a fight over publishing rights spanned the West, Mirrorsoft, Nintendo and the Cold War. It runs about an hour with chaptered parts.
6:12El Sendero Luminoso ft. Alex Honnold | The North Face
11.3M views • 12 years ago
The North Face
A short film of Alex Honnold free soloing El Sendero Luminoso, a 2,500-foot route in El Potrero Chico, Mexico, in a little over three hours with no rope. It was made by The North Face with climbing footage and music.
13:44The Story of Another World on the Amiga | MVG
350K views • 4 years ago
Modern Vintage Gamer
Modern Vintage Gamer explains how Eric Chahi built Another World on the Amiga 500, using 2D polygons, rotoscoping and clever techniques to run well on a stock 7MHz machine.
4:35Speedy Cutover Service, SXS switching cutover to ESS filmed live at Glendale CA central office, 1984
994K views • 11 years ago
AT&T Tech Channel
A 1984 AT&T film showing the live cutover of a Glendale, California central office from step-by-step switching to an electronic switching system. Installers prepare the site and then cut cables in a coordinated operation.
34:29The History of 3D Graphics on the Gameboy Advance | minimme
667K views • 6 years ago
minimme
minimme traces the timeline of 3D graphics engines on the Game Boy Advance, from early experiments to commercial 3D games, covering techniques such as voxel rendering. It is a history and showcase of what developers coaxed out of the limited hardware.
15:29Life in Syntropy
931K views • 10 years ago
Agenda Gotsch
A short film from Agenda Gotsch introducing syntropic agriculture and Ernst Gotsch's agroforestry methods, made for COP21. It shows degraded land regenerated into productive forest farms.
29:38Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest – Fools & Dreamers (Full Documentary)
4.7M views • 7 years ago
Happen Films
Fools & Dreamers is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve in New Zealand, where botanist Hugh Wilson let gorse grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate native forest. It shows the results after 30 years and the local skepticism he faced.
1:16:56The Part of History You've Always Skipped | Neoslavery
6.2M views • 4 years ago
Knowing Better
A long documentary-style video arguing that slavery in the US effectively continued through convict leasing and the prison system until around 1942. It covers the constitutional carveout and the history of neoslavery.
38:13Birth of BASIC
1.5M views • 12 years ago
Dartmouth
A Dartmouth-produced documentary on how professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz, with a group of undergraduates, invented the BASIC language. It covers the creation of BASIC and the early time-sharing environment at Dartmouth.
24:05Edsger W. Dijkstra on Dutch TV
45K views • 12 years ago
Yin Wang
A 2001 VPRO Noorderlicht documentary episode, filmed in Austin in 2000, visiting Edsger Dijkstra and his views on thinking as a discipline. It is in Dutch with English subtitles.
15:11Oldest US mall blends old/modern with 225-sq-ft micro-lofts
7.2M views • 11 years ago
Kirsten Dirksen
Kirsten Dirksen visits the Providence Arcade, the oldest US indoor mall, which was converted into 225-square-foot micro-lofts classified as a rooming house.
20:44Rowing 3,000 Miles Across the Atlantic Ocean
7.3M views • 4 years ago
Laura Try
Laura Try recounts her 3,000-mile row across the Atlantic as part of a crew of four women in the 2018 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge.
25:51The Lobby P1: Young Friends of Israel l Al Jazeera Investigations
1.2M views • 9 years ago
Al Jazeera English
The first part of an Al Jazeera undercover investigation into the Israel lobby in Britain, covering efforts to influence youth groups and the National Union of Students, including a smear campaign against its president.
31:00ALAIN COLMERAUER L'AVENTURE PROLOG
7K views • 4 years ago
Prolog Heritage
A French-language documentary on the history of Prolog, created in Marseille by Alain Colmerauer in the early 1970s, with interviews of many people involved. It traces the origins of logic programming and later developments of the language.
2:32Shagged by a rare parrot | Last Chance To See - BBC
30.7M views • 17 years ago
BBC
A clip from BBC's Last Chance to See in which Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine meet Sirocco, a kakapo, who famously tries to mate with Carwardine's head. The kakapo is a critically endangered flightless New Zealand parrot.
1:18:02The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance
7.9M views • 8 years ago
Independent POV
A feature-length documentary on how the City of London and Britain's overseas territories built a global web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions after the empire declined. It traces how this network captured and hid wealth from around the world.
1:32:40Princes of the Yen | The Hidden Power of Central Banks
4.5M views • 12 years ago
Independent POV
Michael Oswald's documentary, based on Richard Werner's book, argues that Japan's 1990s crash was engineered by the central bank and powerful interests. It focuses on the Bank of Japan's hidden influence over the economy.
13:32The Super-Fast Logistics of Delivering Blood By Drone
1.1M views • 7 years ago
Wendover Productions
A Wendover Productions documentary-style video on how Zipline delivers blood and medical supplies by drone in Rwanda. It covers the catapult launch, parachute drop and the logistics behind it.
49:22James Burke Connections, Ep. 1 "The Trigger Effect"
764K views • 7 years ago
DRS_Education
The first episode of James Burke's 1978 BBC series Connections traces modern dependence on complex technological networks, starting with the 1965 New York blackout, and moves through ancient agriculture to Kuwait's oil-driven leap.
56:09Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary
337K views • 13 years ago
The Documentary Network
Code Rush is a one-hour documentary following Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley through the company's last year as an independent firm. It covers the Mozilla open-source announcement, the frantic push to ready the source for release by March 31, 1998, and the toll on engineers' lives before the AOL acquisition.
2:18:23Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
19M views • 4 years ago
Folding Ideas
Dan Olson's roughly two-hour video essay critiques NFTs, cryptocurrency, and Web3, covering their technical, economic, and ideological flaws. It is heavily sourced and ends with the advice to ask whether a project needs crypto to work.
1:42:01MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod
19.4M views • 3 years ago
Power Pak
A long video essay on MyHouse.wad, a Doom II mod uploaded by an anonymous user that hides unsettling secrets in its walls. It tells the story of the map, its mystery and its liminal horror.
3:29:25THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments
3.5M views • 1 year ago
Gamers Nexus
A Gamers Nexus investigative documentary on the black market for Nvidia AI GPUs, following smugglers, middlemen, and buyers, including reporting from China. It examines how export-restricted chips reach their users.
46:21Money as Debt I - Revised Edition 2009 (Full Movie)
291K views • 11 years ago
Ethaniel RockX
An animated documentary by Paul Grignon explaining how modern money is created through bank lending as debt. This is a combined upload of the revised 2009 edition.
1:45:00The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | full movie (2014)
2.5M views • 12 years ago
moviemaniacsDE
The full documentary 'The Internet's Own Boy' about programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, with interviews with family, friends and internet figures. It covers his work on access to information and the legal case preceding his death.
34:43Climbing SOLO with Alex Honnold **INSANE EXPERIENCE**
14.4M views • 4 years ago
Magnus Midtbø
Norwegian climber Magnus Midtbo spends a day climbing with Alex Honnold on exposed routes, shot as a vlog. The video shows the stark contrast between Midtbo's visible nerves and Honnold's calm.
1:18:57Kedi - Full Length Documentary
0 views • 9 years ago
vlogbrothers
Kedi is a feature documentary following seven street cats of Istanbul and the people who care for them. It portrays the relationship between the city and its cats.
1:13:53THE MARS UNDERGROUND [HD] Full Movie
18.5M views • 12 years ago
Blue Mars
A documentary following Robert Zubrin and the Mars Society as they push the Mars Direct plan for sending humans to Mars using current technology and local resources. It also covers the clash with NASA's more expensive approach.