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18:09Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop
7M views • 20 years ago
Landon Proctor
Nate Harrison's 2004 video history of the Amen Break, a six-second drum sample from a 1969 b-side that became the basis of hip-hop sampling, jungle and drum and bass. It is also a meditation on cultural ownership and creativity.
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.
Topic match · Transit, cities & urban planning
56:09Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence
171K views • 17 years ago
znoopy2k
Code Rush is a 2000 PBS documentary following Netscape engineers during the year they open-sourced the browser as Mozilla. It shows the pressure and long hours of work in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot-com era.
10:00First Strike (Part 1)
3.2M views • 19 years ago
filmsouth
A dramatization of a hypothetical Soviet first strike that destroys US bombers and Minuteman missiles, filmed with US Air Force cooperation. It is a short version of the 1979 documentary First Strike.