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BBS: The Documentary
>Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer… In the Summer of 2001, Jason Scott, a computer historian wondered if anyone had made a film about these BBSes. They hadn't, so he decided he would.
>our years, thousands of miles of travelling, and over 200 interviews later, "BBS: The Documentary", a mini-series of 8 episodes about the history of the BBS, is now available. Spanning 3 DVDs and totalling five and a half hours, this documentary is actually eight documentaries about different aspects of this important story in the annals of computer history.

Baud introduces the story of the beginning of the BBS, including interviews with Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, who used a snowstorm as an inspiration to change the world.
Sysops and Users introduces the stories of the people who used BBSes, and lets them tell their own stories of living in this new world.
Make it Pay covers the BBS industry that rose in the 1980's and grew to fantastic heights before disappearing almost overnight.
Fidonet covers the largest volunteer-run computer network in history, and the people who made it a joy and a political nightmare.
Artscene tells the rarely-heard history of the ANSI Art Scene that thrived in the BBS world, where art was currency and battles waged over nothing more than pure talent.
HPAC (Hacking Phreaking Anarchy Cracking) hears from some of the users of "underground" BBSes and their unique view of the world of information and computers.
Compression tells the story of the PKWARE/SEA legal battle of the late 1980s and how a fight that broke out over something as simple as data compression resulted in waylaid lives and lost opportunity.
No Carrier wishes a fond farewell to the dial-up BBS and its integration into the Internet.

It's really cool and gives you a dive into pre-internet culture

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This documentary proves how evolution is false and that intelligent design is how our origins began. This video explains how perfect and wonderful life is and that it could not come by chance.

Embedded is "Concorde Around the World"

A documentary following a 1999 supersonic round the world charter flight using a British Airways Concorde. Stops include: Vancouver, Kona, Nadi, Sydney, Guam, Bangkok, Chennai, Nairobi, Aquaba, Venice, and Lisbon. One of the unique aspects of this documentary is it includes supersonic flight over land.

Richard D. Hall of RICHPLANET.NET investigates the subject of animal mutilation in the U.K. In various locations within the U.K., there are incidents of recurring animal deaths. The injuries on the animals are toally in-explicable showing surgical precision. See the evidence and follow the lives of those involved in tracking down the perpetrators. For some reason, the goverment are covering up these cases.

The Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russian: Кольская сверхглубокая скважина, Kolskaya sverkhglubokaya skvazhina) is the result of a scientific drilling project of the Soviet Union in the Pechengsky District, on the Kola Peninsula. The project attempted to drill as deep as possible into the Earth's crust. Drilling began on 24 May 1970 using the Uralmash-4E, and later the Uralmash-15000 series drilling rig. A number of boreholes were drilled by branching from a central hole. The deepest, SG-3, reached 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) in 1989 and still is the deepest artificial point on Earth.

A documentary on the rise of political correctness in America and its Jewish influences:

Boasian anthropology, Sigmond Freud and psychoanalysis, The Frankfurt School, Tearing down the 'Nuclear Family', Political correctness takes over Harvard University through the G.I. Bill, and other topics.

Seinfeld: How It Began (2004) How Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David met and created the show "Seinfeld", told by Jerry and Larry.

India Man single handedly plants a forest bigger than Central Park to save his island in the middle of a barren wasteland

1812 Napoleon's Road to Moscow is a powerful record of one of history's greatest military disasters. Featuring dramatized reconstructions, stunning period imagery and the latest 3-D computer graphics, the program follows the dramatic course of events, including the Battle Of Bordino and the cruel 'Retreat From Moscow' which claimed over half a million lives. The program also draws extensively on spectacular scenes from the Oscar-winning Russian film War and Peace.