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How to Buy Happiness
“Money Can’t Buy You Love,” sang The Beatles. But they neglected to mention that money CAN buy you happiness. In this TED TALK, Michael Norton tells you how.
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I Lost My Job
I Lost My Job looks at how technology makes some jobs obsolete (travel agents, operators) and creates new jobs. Are you someone who has benefited or seen their job taken from them and placed in cold, metallic hands?
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RiP! A Remix Manifesto
RIP! A Remix Manifesto, being officially backed up by the Canadian government, you will be astounded by what you see and what is openly discussed in this picture. Copyright infringement in the digital age. DocumentaryStorm.com is proud that all of the documentaries we are posting have copyright approval.
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Steve Jobs: biography
Steve Jobs died in early October of 2011, but not before re-inventing the personal computer, the animation film industry, the music industry, the phone industry, etc, etc. A couple of weeks later, 60 minutes put out this biography on man who has left his fingerprint in virtually every home in the developed world.
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Is Your Life Just One Big Role Playing Game?
A Remarkable talk by Carnegie Mellon Professor and ex Disney Imagineer Jesse Schell. He looks at the phenomena of Facebook and argues that life does not end with Facebook: it mutates. Fascinating! Topics discussed: Facebook, Guitar Hero, Mafia Wars, etc.
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Europe at the Brink
Europe at the Brink is a 2012 short documentary that was produced by the Wall Street Journal. They look at the origins of Europe’s current economic cris, including countries such as Greece. If you want to know more about what’s happening: this is a quick and thorough primer!
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Putin 2012: Tsar or Reformer?
Russian society has known heartache forever: first there were the Tsars: mighty kings who made the common folk toil on the land for peanuts. Then, Lenin and Trotsky brought about the age of the Communist Revolution and a movement that was supposed to give the power back to the everyman. Instead, we got 75 years [...]
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Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked
A history of superheroes in comic books, from the first appearance of Superman in the 1930s to today’s morally-conflicted, violent anti-heroes.
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The Price of Life
On a finite budget, the National Health Service cannot afford to offer every treatment on the market, so how is it decided which medications should be made available?
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The Empire State Building Shall Rise
The Empire State Building should never have been built. Constructed during the Great Depression, this icon of the New York skyline stood as the tallest building in the world for over 40 years. After September 11th, 2001 it once again became the tallest building in New York. It has withstood storms, plane crashes, and King [...]
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When Bankers Were Good
This documentary examines the Victorian financiers – including Samuel Gurney and Natty Rothschild.
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Mark Zuckerberg – Inside Facebook
In just seven years, Mark Zuckerberg has gone from his Harvard college dorm to running a business with 800 million users, and a possible value of $100 billion. This film tells the story of Facebook’s creation, looks at the accuracy of The Social Network movie, and examines Facebook’s plans to use the personal information it has collected to power a new kind of online advertising.
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