Silicon Cowboys
Sep 16, 2016 | IMDB 6.7
77 min Watch NowDocumentary
Launched in 1982 by three friends in a Houston diner, Compaq Computer set out to build a portable PC to take on IBM, the world’s most powerful tech company. Many had tried cloning the industry leader’s code, only to be trounced by IBM and its high-priced lawyers. Explore the remarkable David vs. Goliath story, and eventual demise, of Compaq, an unlikely upstart who altered the future of computing and helped shape the world as we know it today.
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IMDB 7.1 | Jan , 2020
When Peter Wohlleben published his book "The Hidden Life of Trees" in 2015, he quickly entered bestseller lists. The forester wrote vividly about his experience that trees are able to communicate with each other, a thesis explored here.Notes on Blindness
IMDB 7 | Jul , 2016
After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, Notes on Blindness is an ambitious and groundbreaking work, both affecting and innovative.Sardou, autoportrait
IMDB 6.8 | Mar , 2024
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IMDB 0 | Feb , 2023
An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on sucess, who thwarted his own career with antics that roiled NYC’s art elite. Brezinski’s quest for fame gives an intimate portrait of the art world’s attitude towards success and failure, fame and fortune, notoriety and erasure.Moving Together
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2023
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1985
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IMDB 7.7 | Jul , 2018
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IMDB 7.6 | Jan , 2008
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IMDB 6.3 | Apr , 2009
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IMDB 6.3 | Mar , 2022
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IMDB 8.5 | Apr , 2006
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IMDB 6.7 | Mar , 1961
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IMDB 7.5 | Jun , 2018
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IMDB 8.7 | Oct , 2019
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IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 2003
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 2001
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