Time Bomb Y2K
As the clock counted down to the the 21st century, the world faced a potential technological disaster: a bug that could cause computers to misinterpret the year 2000 as 1900. Crafted entirely from archival footage and featuring first-hand accounts from computer experts, survivalists, scholars, militia groups, conservative Christians, and pop icons, Time Bomb Y2K is a prescient and often humorous tale about the power and vulnerabilities of technology.
Murder and the Computer
After coming under suspicion for a computer technician's murder, six hackers team up to try to find the real killer.
The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires
It happened more or less by accident; the people who made it happen were amateurs; and for the most part they still are. From his own Silicon Valley garage, author Bob Cringley puts PC bigshots and nerds on the spot, and tells their incredible true stories. Like the industry itself, the series is informative, funny and brash.
Eventual
In a world where the future is for sale, a grieving man visits a mysterious Time Spa, seeking a glimpse of his future. However, he discovers that some truths are more challenging than the past he's desperate to escape.
Intercept: A Century of Signals Intelligence
A thought provoking documentary feature film providing a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of signals intelligence over the past century. Whether you're intrigued by the secretive world of intelligence agencies or concerned about the implications of digital surveillance, this film will leave you with a deeper understanding of the role signals intelligence plays in society.
Techno Warriors
In The Future, A Computer bug sets a new breed of armed and dangerous villains loose on an unsuspecting world. Digital game characters who govern their own destiny and with global domination at their cyber fingerprints pose the biggest threat to mankind. Our greatest hope lies with the "Techno Warriors" to capture and drag them back into the digital domain.
Movies by Machine - AI and Cinema
As artificial intelligence becomes ever more sophisticated, the film industry is split between enthusiasm at what the technology can achieve and concern over the future for human workers in the industry. Will actors and actresses be replaced by machines? An overview on the coming wave of AI in cinema.
AI and the Death of the Internet
The internet has been flooded with AI-generated rubbish. Automated bots are producing a flood of AI-generated content that threatens to push everything else out of our social media feeds. Will this ‘slop’ lead to the death of the internet? Or perhaps is the internet a dead space already?
Computer Dreams
A documentary about the exciting possibilities of computer animation and the shaping of never before imagined worlds.
Transient
After a traumatic accident, a tech entrepreneur's new invention forces him to wrestle with the ghosts of his past.
Podfather
Documentary telling the story of silicon chip inventor Robert Noyce, godfather of today's digital world. Re-living the heady days of Silicon Valley's seminal start-ups, the film tells how Noyce also founded Intel, the company responsible for more than 80 per cent of the microprocessors in personal computers.
Hide and Seek
In this adaptation of the 1977 sci-fi novel, "The Adolescence of P-1," a high school whiz kid's computer program accidentally hooks into the mainframe computer of a nuclear power plant.
A Computer Glossary
From hardware to software, the basics of then-current computing technology is explained.
Microsoft: How to Succeed in Business with Workgroup Computing
Two brothers, Jake and Max work in product development at the Kitty Carnival Amusement company. The two office workers do not work well together and are sceptical at the new Microsoft Workgroups for Windows operating systems they are being forced to use, but with a looming deadline and some help from Bill Gates, they soon learn to love it, and go on to start their own successful company.
The Cost of AI
Russia's Cyber Army
For years now, the Kremlin has been systematically trying to use well-trained hackers for its own benefit. In exchange for freedom and protection, they do the dirty work of the state, interfering in other countries’ elections and penetrating government networks. Just how dangerous is Russia’s cyber army?
BIG FUN in the BIO
Vince Collins tells of his animation history—looking to the past and eventually to AI and beyond.
Microchip Wars
When the pandemic hit it highlighted how much Western countries rely on the chip industry. Today Europe, America and China are involved in an intense commercial struggle to dominate this sector that is so strategic for the future. From Taiwan to Shanghai, via Brussels and San Francisco, investigative journalist Nicolas Vescovacci went to meet the most influential players in this microchip war, which is redefining world geopolitics.
The Click Trap
Digital advertising algorithms curate content precisely for users. Major tech firms claim to restrict disinformation yet still profit from harmful content, raising ethical concerns about democracy and online capitalism.
Fake: Searching for Truth in the Age of Misinformation
A new, original documentary from Connecticut Public, Fake: Searching for Truth in the Age of Misinformation, takes on this topic, just in time for the 2020 election season. Viewers will learn how and why misinformation spreads, and how to be a smarter information consumer in our increasingly digital world.