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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.
27:27AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System
2.2M views • 14 years ago
AT&T Tech Channel
A 1982 Bell Labs film hosted by Victor Vyssotsky on the origins and design philosophy of the UNIX operating system, with appearances by Kernighan, Thompson and Ritchie. It shows pipes, filters and a shell one-liner spell checker being built.
23:39UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use -- AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories
499K views • 12 years ago
AT&T Tech Channel
A 1982 AT&T Bell Labs film for students about the Unix system and how it can be used practically. It includes Lorinda Cherry building a talking calculator by piping together Unix commands, and a spell checker made from Unix utilities.
29:54[Epilepsy Warning] Choco Mountain: The History of Mario Kart 64's Most Infamous Track
5.4M views • 8 years ago
Summoning Salt
Summoning Salt traces the speedrunning history of Mario Kart 64's Choco Mountain track and its famous shortcut, through the successive record holders and discoveries. It carries an epilepsy warning for flickering lights.
3:04Cordyceps: attack of the killer fungi - Planet Earth Attenborough BBC wildlife
12.6M views • 18 years ago
BBC Studios
A three-minute clip from BBC's Planet Earth narrated by David Attenborough about Cordyceps, the fungus that infects insects and takes over their behavior. It shows an infected ant and its demise.
54:27The Secrets Of Cornwall - Part 1 - Communications
259K views • 10 years ago
Mark Thomas
A documentary on how Cornwall became a hub for the world's communications, from the first transatlantic radio signal to modern undersea fibre cables. It describes how cable landing stations and the systems are put together.
20:41Cuba's Underground Gaming Network
1.5M views • 8 years ago
Cloth Map
Cloth Map documents Havana's SNET, a community-built private network that Cubans created because internet prices were high. It is used for gaming and sharing.
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.
9:19The Gun Markets of Pakistan with Suroosh Alvi
14.3M views • 15 years ago
VICE
A VICE report from 2011 in which Suroosh Alvi revisits the gun markets in Pakistan's tribal areas, a stronghold of the Taliban. It shows weapons being made and sold by hand and a country described as a powder keg.
41:12Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit
2.1M views • 4 years ago
Ahoy
Ahoy's documentary traces tracker music from early Amiga software like SoundMonitor and Soundtracker through the demoscene, Protracker, and PC trackers such as Screamtracker and FastTracker. It covers the sound, culture and history of 16-bit module music.
39:19The Dark Side of Counter-Strike 2
5.6M views • 1 year ago
Coffeezilla
Coffeezilla's investigation into the Counter-Strike 2 skin gambling ecosystem, covering casino sites, influencers and esports teams that profit from it. It is part of a multi-part series on Valve's skin economy and its effects on young players.
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.
23:33Underground dome house of the family who led geese to fly home
4.8M views • 7 years ago
Kirsten Dirksen
Kirsten Dirksen tours the underground ferro-cement dome home of Paula and Bill Lishman, the family behind the geese-led flight story. The skylit earth-sheltered house stays warm below the frost line.
39:23BBC How They Dug the Victoria Line
1.1M views • 12 years ago
Graham W
A 39-minute BBC documentary, built from earlier British Transport Films footage, on how the London Underground's Victoria Line was dug in the 1960s.
Topic match · Civil engineering & construction
4:52Killer Whales Working Together to Hunt Seals on Ice | BBC Earth
2.8M views • 9 years ago
BBC Earth
BBC Earth shows killer whales working as a pod to create waves that wash seals off ice floes, with the producer explaining how the crew captured behavior once thought a myth.
14:14Earth-cooled, shipping container underground CA home for 30K
3.7M views • 10 years ago
Kirsten Dirksen
Kirsten Dirksen profiles Steve Rees, who buried two shipping containers to build an earth-cooled, off-grid 640 sq ft home in Northern California for about $30,000, solar included.
8:13Inside the Lab Where Robots Run Their Own Experiments
254K views • 6 years ago
Seeker
A Seeker short documentary on a lab where robots run experiments with almost no human intervention, covering automation and active machine learning in drug discovery and synthetic biology.
4:55Miniatur Wunderland *** official video *** largest model railway / railroad of the world
27.8M views • 14 years ago
Miniatur Wunderland
The official tour video of Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, the world's largest model railway. It shows the 1,300 square meter layout with trains, aircraft, cars and ships moving around.
45:23BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters
4.1M views • 19 years ago
Flex Your Rights
A 45-minute Flex Your Rights documentary on how to deal with police in three situations: traffic stops, encounters at home, and on the street. It presents practical advice on asserting constitutional rights and refusing searches.
33:45Sepp Holzer's Mountain Permaculture Farm
192K views • 11 years ago
The Permaculture Zone
Josef Holzer walks through his family's Krameterhof, one of Europe's oldest permaculture farms in the Austrian mountains, with fish ponds, terraces, fruit trees and grazing animals. It showcases water management and microclimates.
1:43:00Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History
27.3M views • 4 years ago
Defunctland
A feature-length Defunctland documentary on the history of Disney's FastPass and FastPass+ expedited queue systems. It covers how the systems evolved and how they were designed, with simulation of their effects on park lines.
Topic match · Tech company stories & documentaries
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
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.
Topic match · Cosmology & astrophysics
48:42James Burke Connections, Ep. 4 "Faith in Numbers"
225K views • 7 years ago
DRS_Education
Episode 4 of James Burke's Connections series, tracing how commercialism, climate change and the Black Death shaped the move to the Renaissance. It follows threads through waterpower, the printing press, the Jacquard loom and the Hollerith punch card toward modern computing.
Topic match · History of computing
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.
5:22:14The Complete History of the A Button Challenge
2.4M views • 3 years ago
Bismuth
A five-hour documentary history of the Super Mario 64 A button challenge, which aims to beat the game with as few A presses as possible. It covers the bugs and exploits discovered over the years.
Topic match · Speedrunning, glitches & game hacking
15:26Kia Boys Documentary (A Story of Teenage Car Theft)
8.8M views • 4 years ago
Tommy G
A Milwaukee vlogger follows teenagers known as the Kia Boys who steal Kia and Hyundai cars after a security flaw went viral on social media. The film includes interviews with participants.
Topic match · Cars, EVs & motorcycles
54:16HOW ROCKETS ARE MADE (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) - Smarter Every Day 231
13.4M views • 6 years ago
SmarterEveryDay
Destin Sandlin tours United Launch Alliance's rocket factory with CEO Tory Bruno, showing friction stir welding, structural rocket skins and large milled parts.
9:02India's Water Revolution #1: Solving the Crisis in 45 days with the Paani Foundation
1.5M views • 6 years ago
Andrew Millison
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison visits the village of Garavadi in Maharashtra, India, which took part in the Paani Foundation's Water Cup competition. It shows the water harvesting structures the villagers built in 45 days and how they restored groundwater and the local economy.
2:55Amazing! Bird Sounds From The Lyre Bird - David Attenborough - BBC Wildlife
22.7M views • 19 years ago
BBC Studios
A short BBC clip in which David Attenborough shows a lyrebird imitating sounds, including camera shutters, car alarms and chainsaws. It comes from the BBC natural history series Life on Earth.
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.
9:01Powers of Ten™ (1977)
9.5M views • 16 years ago
Eames Office
The Eames Office's 1977 film Powers of Ten starts at a picnic in Chicago and zooms out by a factor of ten every ten seconds to the edge of the universe. It then zooms inward to a proton in a carbon atom.
Topic match · Scientific method & science communication
2:31:44This is Financial Advice
8.4M views • 3 years ago
Folding Ideas
Dan Olson's long Folding Ideas video on the GameStop meme stock phenomenon, its online community and the conspiracy thinking around it. It runs over two hours.
Topic match · Gaming culture & analysis
1:15:57The Great Global Warming Swindle Full Movie
967K views • 15 years ago
Kazza0423
A 2007 Channel 4 documentary by Martin Durkin arguing that human-caused global warming is overstated or a scam. It features contrarian scientists such as Richard Lindzen and promotes sunspot and cosmic-ray explanations for temperature change. Its claims are rejected by mainstream climate science.
Topic match · Climate policy, solutions & debate
49:33Talking Funny - HBO
12.6M views • 13 years ago
Ken Jones
An HBO special in which Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais and Louis CK discuss the craft of stand-up comedy. They talk about writing jokes, technique and how they handle old material.
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.
Topic match · Tech company stories & documentaries
8:26Part 1 - Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center - AT&T Archives
59K views • 13 years ago
AT&T Tech Channel
A 1973 AT&T training film made for new employees at Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center, when Unix was in its third version and running at 16 computer centers in the Bell System. It shows how users submitted jobs and used the center's machines.
Topic match · History of computing
37:36Making Sense of VRChat, the "Metaverse" People Actually Like
511K views • 4 years ago
People Make Games
People Make Games explores VRChat, the social virtual world that many consider the metaverse people actually like, interviewing users and covering its communities and uncertain future.
Topic match · Internet culture & memes
45:32The Dolphin House
1.7M views • 5 years ago
Atrocity Guide
Atrocity Guide covers the 1965 dolphin experiments of Dr. John C. Lilly and Margaret Howe, who tried to teach dolphins English. It traces the bizarre methods and Lilly's later drug-fueled beliefs.
Topic match · Scientific method & science communication
24:25I Got Bribed By Casinos, But I Exposed Them Instead
6.6M views • 1 year ago
Coffeezilla
Coffeezilla recounts being offered a $20k bounty to expose a Counter-Strike skin casino, then investigates and finds a different story. It is the first episode of a series on CS skin gambling.
Topic match · Gaming culture & analysis