The Secret of Oz by Bill Still

What’s going on with the world’s economy? The Secret of Oz is a 2009 documentary directed by Bill Still, about the systemically flawed debt-money system to which the United States and most of the world is currently enslaved. The documentary draws parallels with the classic children novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum depicting the story hidden in symbolism about monetary reform and the economic scenario during the late 19th century.

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Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World

This is a special one-hour edition of the Money Programme on BBC Two, which presents the definitive profile of Bill Gates as he embarks on his latest challenge: giving away the billions he's amassed. The program examines the fortunes of Microsoft as it faces up to competition from internet-based companies, and asks an array of well-known friends, colleagues and rivals what the future holds for the company in a post-Gates world.

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Clive Sinclair, the Anatomy of an Inventor (1989)

BBC Horizon - Clive Sinclair, the Anatomy of an Inventor (1989). Sir Clive Marles Sinclair is a British entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This film presents a profile of noted inventor Clive Sinclair with his family and colleagues reminiscing and analyzing his successes and failures.

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America Before Columbus

America Before Columbus is a National Geographic documentary about the pre-Columbus Americas and how the Americas changed after Columbus’s discovery. History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native villages lived in harmony with nature. But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there. America wasn't exactly a "New World," but a very old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals and causeways. But after Columbus set foot in the Americas, an endless wave of explorers, conquistadors and settlers arrived, and with each of their ships came a Noah's Ark of plants, animals and disease. In the first 100 years of contact, entire civilizations were wiped out and the landscape was changed forever.

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The Four-Winged Dinosaur

In 2002, the discovery of a beautiful and bizarre fossil astonished scientists and reignited the debate over the origin of flight. With four wings and superbly preserved feathers, the 130 million-year-old creature was like nothing paleontologists had ever seen before.

Long ago in the age of dinosaurs, a volcano in eastern China erupted and buried a host of strange creatures in ash, creating exquisite fossils that preserved a big surprise - many dinosaurs were covered in feathers. The Four-Winged Dinosaur investigates the most bizarre of these feathered dinosaurs, which has rekindled a fierce, decades-long debate over the origin of bird flight.

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The U.S. vs. John Lennon

The U.S. vs. John Lennon is a 2006 documentary film directed by David Leaf and Scheinfeld, on the life of John Lennon - especially when John Lennon transformed from a member of The Beatles to a rallying anti-war activist striving for world peace during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film also details the attempts by the United States government under President Richard Nixon to silence him. (from wikipedia.org)

What Makes a Genius?

What Makes a Genius? is a BBC documentary presented by Marcus du Sautoy, exploring what makes someone a genius. Marcus du Sautoy wants to know if geniuses are just an extreme version of himself - or whether their brains are fundamentally different. He meets some remarkable individuals - Tommy, an obsessive artist who uses his whole house as his canvas; Derek: blind, autistic, and a pianist with apparently prodigious gifts; Claire who is also blind, but whose brain has learnt to see using sound.

Marcus is shown how babies have remarkable abilities which most of us lose as teenagers. He meets a neuroscientist who claims he has evidence of innate ability, a scientist who's identified a gene for learning, and Dr. Paulus, who has discovered how to sharpen the brain... by electrically turbo-charging it. (from bbc.co.uk)

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