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  1. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018)

    Director
    Alexandra Dean
    Producer
    Susan Sarandon
    Subject
    Film studies; Information technology; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £9.99

    This documentary brings to light the unusual story of Hedy Lamarr, a glamorous actress-icon of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during the...

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  2. Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production (2017)

    Director
    Briar Levit
    Subject
    Design; Information technology; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 85 minutes), $350

    Up until just over 30 years ago, when the desktop computer arrived on the scene, the whole design production process would have been done primarily by hand, and with the aid of analogue machines. The design...

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  3. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

    Director
    Werner Herzog
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £9.99

    Werner Herzog chronicles the virtual world from its origins to its outermost reaches, exploring the digital landscape with the same curiosity and imagination he previously trained on earthly destinations as...

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  4. Internet Research - What’s Credible? (2015)

    Director
    Richard Granberry
    Producer
    Richard Granberry
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 29 minutes), $129.95

    On the Internet it’s easy, and fast, to research a topic with a few keystrokes. But it’s also very easy to receive unreliable and non-credible information that distorts research efforts. How can you tell...

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  5. Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)

    Director
    Brian Knappenberger
    Producer
    Brian Knappenberger
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 105 minutes), $17.89

    Biographical documentary film depicting the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organiser and Internet activist Aaron Swartz who helped develop the internet protocol RSS and was a...

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  6. Code Breaker: The Alan Turing Story (2013)

    aka: Codebreaker: The Alan Turing Story

    Director
    Clare Beavan
    Subject
    Drama; Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £15.99

    Docudrama directed by Clare Beavan that explores the life of British mathematician Alan Turing and the events that led up to his death in 1954, when he ate an apple laced with cyanide following his...

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  7. Out of Print (2013)

    Director
    Vivienne Roumani
    Subject
    Information technology; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 55 minutes), £179.46

    The digital revolution is changing the way in which the written word is being written, published, sold and read. Former director at the Library of Congress and the UC Berkeley Library, filmmaker Vivienne...

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  8. Google and the World Brain: The Audacious Attempt to Control Human Knowledge (2013)

    Director
    Ben Lewis
    Producer
    Bettina Walter
    Subject
    Information technology; Law; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 93 minutes), $350.00 (College and University)

    In 1937, the science fiction writer H. G. Wells imagined a "World Brain" containing all of the world’s knowledge, accessible to all people, that would be "so compact in its material form and so gigantic in...

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  9. Think B4 U Post (2012)

    Subject
    Information technology; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 22 minutes), £48.00

    A person normally wouldn’t shout out the details of a private meeting or give a credit card to a total stranger - yet in effect that’s what people do when they post indiscreetly on social networking...

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  10. Hunt for A.I., The (2012)

    Director
    Helen Sage
    Producer
    Helen Sage
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    Professor Marcus Du Sautoy investigates Artificial Intelligence and asks what it would mean if one day machines could think like people. He begins by asking what thinking is and whether it is this that makes...

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