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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.
31:44WLW's 500,000 Watt Transmitter
646K views • 13 years ago
K7AGE
A tour of the historic WLW transmitter facility in Mason, Ohio, recorded at Hamvention 2013. It shows the surviving equipment from the 500,000 watt AM era, when WLW was the only US station at that power, and explains the history.
Topic match · Electronics & circuit design
28:41Part One: The Evergreen Equity Council
1M views • 7 years ago
Michael Nayna
The first of three short films by Mike Nayna about Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying's experience at Evergreen State College, focusing on the Equity Council and the controversy around it.
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.
47:49Quants | The Alchemists of Wall Street | VPRO documentary
2.7M views • 16 years ago
vpro documentary
A VPRO documentary on quantitative analysts who designed the mathematical models and high-speed trading systems behind modern finance. It features figures such as Paul Wilmott and asks what risks come from treating markets as a machine.
35:22Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
7.9M views • 4 years ago
People Make Games
A People Make Games follow-up investigation into Roblox, built on stories from players and creators after the channel's first video. It covers the platform's treatment of young developers and its moderation.
Topic match · Labor, work & inequality
37:50The Art of Making a Nixie Tube
6.3M views • 10 years ago
Dalibor Farný
Dalibor Farny documents the hand manufacture of a nixie tube, from glassblowing to evacuation, with text notes rather than narration. He revived the lost craft of nixie tube making.
Topic match · Electronics & circuit design
48:53I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308
4.6M views • 1 year ago
SmarterEveryDay
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day tries to manufacture a grill scrubber entirely in the United States. Along the way he runs into missing supply chains, tooling and institutional manufacturing knowledge.
Topic match · Labor, work & inequality
22:44Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
2.7M views • 5 years ago
People Make Games
People Make Games investigates how Roblox relies on young, often child, developers to build its content while paying them very little. It covers Roblox's monetization model, the revenue split, and the harms to kids who make games on the platform.
Topic match · Labor, work & inequality
14:44The Insane Battle To Sabotage a New Apartment Building Explains San Francisco's Housing Crisis
1.5M views • 7 years ago
ReasonTV
ReasonTV tells the story of Bob Tillman, who spent nearly five years and $1.4 million trying to convert his San Francisco laundromat into apartments. It walks through the permitting, appeals and neighborhood opposition he faced.
Topic match · Labor, work & inequality
13:26Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All
1M views • 5 years ago
Bloomberg Originals
A Bloomberg mini-documentary on how Vienna keeps housing affordable through large-scale public and social housing. It presents the city as a model strategy for others.
Topic match · Labor, work & inequality
26:49Inside a Huge PCB Factory
3.7M views • 8 years ago
Strange Parts
Strange Parts tours JLCPCB's large PCB factory in Huizhou, China, walking through the printed circuit board manufacturing process step by step. It shows the machinery, quality checks and scale behind cheap prototype boards.
Topic match · Electronics & circuit design
47:03Derren Brown - The System (Full)
408K views • 15 years ago
ScepticaTV
Derren Brown's TV special in which he convinces a person he has a system for predicting horse race winners, demonstrating how survivorship bias and selective outcomes can fake predictive powers.
Topic match · Probability & game theory
1:12:52SHIPBREAKERS | Would you risk your life dismantling the world’s largest ships just to survive? | NFB
5.8M views • 9 years ago
NFB
An NFB documentary about the shipbreaking yards of Alang, India, where about 40,000 people dismantle huge ships by hand in dangerous conditions.
Topic match · Labor, work & inequality
4:11Does Vienna Have the World's Best Council Housing? Swimming Pools, Private TV Channels & More
246K views • 7 years ago
Channel 4 Documentaries
Channel 4's George Clarke visits a council estate in Vienna and is surprised by amenities such as swimming pools and private TV channels. It showcases Vienna's high-quality social housing.
Topic match · Labor, work & inequality
31:39The Secret Life of the Radio - Remastered
359K views • 5 years ago
tim hunkin
Remastered episode of Tim Hunkin's The Secret Life of Machines about the radio, covering its development including Hertz and Marconi experiments and Armstrong's FM radio in animated form.
Topic match · Electronics & circuit design
57:09Secret Billionaire: The Chuck Feeney Story
3.8M views • 16 years ago
atlanticphil
An RTE documentary on Chuck Feeney, the Atlantic Philanthropies founder who secretly gave away his fortune. It covers his Giving While Living approach and his gifts to Irish education.
Topic match · Labor, work & inequality
2:35'The True Cost' - Official Trailer
2M views • 11 years ago
UNTOLD
The official trailer for The True Cost, a documentary on the fast fashion industry and who pays for cheap clothing. It touches on garment worker conditions and the Rana Plaza collapse.
Topic match · Labor, work & inequality
53:51The Engoodening of No Man's Sky
26.5M views • 6 years ago
Internet Historian
Internet Historian tells the story of No Man's Sky, from its over-hyped and badly received launch to years of updates by Hello Games that redeemed the game. It is a long, comedic mini-documentary.
28:46FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
259K views • 10 years ago
Drinks and Dice
A documentary on the last day the New York Times was printed with linotype machines in 1978, following the process from the newsroom to the press. It marks the move to computerized typesetting.
5:087 Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars
3.2M views • 14 years ago
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA JPL engineers explain the final minutes of the Curiosity rover's entry, descent and landing on Mars, which combined aerobraking, a parachute and a skycrane. It lays out the tight sequence of events that all had to work automatically.
1:44:44Smelting Iron in Africa (A DEMONSTRATION)
4M views • 12 years ago
Christopher Roy
A 105-minute film of a West African smith family in Burkina Faso smelting iron from ore, from making charcoal and building the kiln to forging tools. It is a cultural recreation filmed for the camera, not current practice.
1:13:54RetroAhoy: The Secret of Monkey Island
3.2M views • 8 years ago
Ahoy
A roughly 75-minute video essay from Ahoy's RetroAhoy series on the making and history of The Secret of Monkey Island. It covers the small LucasArts team, the game's development and its sequel.
47:08Money as Debt - Full Documentary
226K views • 13 years ago
Free Your Mind
Paul Grignon's animated documentary presenting his view of how banks create money as debt and why that system requires continuous growth. It outlines the historical background of modern banking.
18:40Why The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips
4.3M views • 4 years ago
CNBC
CNBC gets a tour of ASML's cleanrooms in the Netherlands to see how its roughly $200 million EUV lithography machines are built. It covers exploding molten tin, ultra-flat optics and why only one company can make these systems.
37:51BOOKSTORES: How to Read More Books in the Golden Age of Content
6.1M views • 7 years ago
Max Joseph
A short film by Max Joseph about his anxiety in bookstores and how to read more books amid constant streaming, social media and news. He looks for ways to rebalance his content diet in favor of reading.
10:38HBO Intro - Behind the Scenes
1.3M views • 19 years ago
archivefilms
A 1983 behind-the-scenes film about making the HBO 'Feature Presentation' starship logo sequence. It shows the handcrafted miniature city, motion-control cameras and practical effects.
11:31Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly
3.4M views • 8 years ago
Motherboard
A Motherboard documentary episode from Nebraska about farmers and mechanics fighting manufacturers like John Deere over access to the diagnostic software needed to repair modern tractors. It shows how software locks have taken away farmers' traditional self-reliance.
49:33The Engines That Came In From The Cold - And how The NK-33/RD-180 Came To The USA
458K views • 12 years ago
Matthew Travis
A Channel 4 Equinox documentary on the NK-33 engines built for the Soviet N1 moon rocket and how they ended up in the USA. It includes rare footage and interviews with veterans of the early Soviet space program.
25:05Departing Space Station Commander Provides Tour of Orbital Laboratory
13.1M views • 13 years ago
NASA
In her final days as ISS commander, Sunita Williams gives an extensive tour of the station's modules and research facilities, narrating the work done aboard.
1:35McNamara meets with Castro (Fog of War)
52K views • 14 years ago
8bitRicky
A two-minute clip from the documentary The Fog of War in which Robert McNamara recalls Fidel Castro explaining how close the world came to nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
32:35I.O.U.S.A.: Byte-Sized - The 30 Minute Version
770K views • 18 years ago
IOUSAtheMovie
A 30-minute condensed version of the documentary I.O.U.S.A., which examines the growing US national debt and its consequences.
7:26Tomorrow's World: Nellie the School Computer 15 February 1969 - BBC
113K views • 16 years ago
BBC
A 1969 BBC Tomorrow's World segment about Nellie, a school computer used by pupils at Forest Grammar School to solve equations and play music. Students learn programming and maintenance, and act out binary arithmetic.
46:07Speedrunning 30yrs of lithography technology
1.9M views • 2 years ago
Breaking Taps
Breaking Taps tries to build semiconductor fabrication capability at home, working through decades of lithography history while chasing one-micrometer features. It documents the equipment, process steps and many setbacks along the way.
36:42Pädokriminelle Foren: Warum löscht niemand die Aufnahmen? | STRG_F
2.9M views • 4 years ago
STRG_F
A German STRG_F investigation into why child sexual abuse material stays online on forums, following a father whose daughter's abuse images were widely shared. The reporters tried to get the content removed by contacting hosters.
8:0329 Days on the Edge
469K views • 5 years ago
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
A NASA video on the 29 days after the James Webb Space Telescope's launch, when thousands of parts must deploy in sequence on the way to its destination a million miles away.