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Code Rush is a documentary following the lives of a group of Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley. It covers Netscape's last year as an independent company, from their announcement of the Mozilla open source project until their acquisition by AOL. It particularly focuses on the last minute rush to make the Mozilla source code ready for release by the deadline of March 31 1998, and the impact on the engineers' lives and families as they attempt to save the company from ruin.

Revolution OS is a 2001 documentary film that traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement.

Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer...

A short informative piece on the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and what YOU can do to shut it down. To make a difference, please visit: http://www.americancensorship.org/

Released on 11.29.11, http://INTERNETRISING.net is a digi-documentary investigating the evolving relationships between the Internet and collective consciousness of humanity. It provokes many questions about ancient and modern paradoxes of life, its pleasures and pains... and the gray area contrasts in between - but most of all it is meant to be an inspiring conversation starter. INTERNET RISING is a labor of love comprising a rapid fire mashup stream of live webcam interviews all conducted within the web sphere. The film's participants include many profound personalities and key internet influencers ranging from professors, corporate academics, futurists, researchers, writers, bloggers, media creators, activists, gamers, educators, scientists, artists, innovators - real humans, all of whom provide amazing insights into how our state of the world is changing and transforming via various forces of economic, social, geographic, political, philosophical development... all centered around technology's transformative and generative power.

Butterflies is a feature documentary film following the lives of six young people that are prominent 'weblebrities' on a video site YouTube. The film explores the new media, its power and its future. Will the Internet overcome traditional media? Will new media and traditional media merge?

July 2009 Twitter and Youtube are the main weapons used by Iranian dissenters in their protest against the regime. Digital dissent vs. bullets and batons - will the new technologies bring change in Iran? Young Neda Soltan lying in a pool of blood last month became the tragic icon of the uprising. Posted on Youtube, the footage shot from a mobile phone was seen by millions around the world. They locked up journalists but they didnt count on people with mobile phones and video cameras being able to get that information out, comments an Iranian expat. Networking sites like Twitter are used to keep the public informed on a minute-by-minute basis. In todays world, cyber-dissent has become a powerful weapon: Its given the government a kind of political auto-immune disease in which they have to attack their own infrastructure to shut the dissent down, says this Internet expert, No economy could sustain this long-term. However, technology can backfire. The regime is now using deep-packet inspection software that filters Internet data, to trace IP addresses and hunt down dissidents. Phone calls are also monitored. People who have spoken to any foreign media are contacted moments later confirms a BBC reporter. Will this build up to a new Tiananmen? At least now, the world sees that the Iranian people want change and they want freedom! Produced by ABC Australia, distributed by Journeyman Pictures

A documentary about a guy, Jim Killeen, who Googled himself and then went all over the world meeting others with his name.