A curated list of movies, documentaries and other related material to watch related to Software Engineering, Open Source, Programming languages and culture 🎬
- Entries: 32
- Documentaries (32)
- Angular: The Documentary
- Clojure: The Documentary
- CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap
- eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel
- Elixir: The Documentary
- Ember.js: The Documentary
- GraphQL: The Documentary
- Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary
- Indie Game: The Movie
- Inside Envoy: The Proxy for the Future
- IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
- Kubernetes: The Documentary [PART 1]
- Kubernetes: The Documentary [PART 2]
- Laravel Origins: A PHP Documentary
- Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
- Node.js: The Documentary
- Prometheus: The Documentary
- Python: The Documentary
- React.js: The Documentary
- Revolution OS
- Ruby on Rails: The Documentary
- Silicon Cowboys
- Svelte Origins: A JavaScript Documentary
- Terms and Conditions May Apply
- The Cleaners
- The Great Hack
- The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
- TypeScript Origins: The Documentary
- VITE: The Documentary
- Vue.js: The Documentary
- We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
- How to contribute
- Projects like us
Born as an internal Google experiment - and initially brushed off by Gmail and Google Maps - AngularJS soon became a JavaScript sensation. But when internal pressures pushed the team towards a radical overhaul of the framework, the community felt left behind. What followed was years of attempts to bring Angular back to its former glory without breaking the world again.
Once considered dead and buried, Angular is back on everyone’s lips, pushing the boundaries of JavaScript and reaching new levels of importance at Google.
From Angular 2 to Ivy, incorporating Signals to converging with Wiz and ...
- Duration: ca. 1 h 1 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Frontend, JavaScript, Google, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 3,546
- Watch on: YouTube
This is the story of how one programmer's obsession with simplicity quietly reshaped how the software world thinks about time, immutability, and what it means to write code that lasts. From a sabbatical pet-project to the backbone of one of the world's largest fintechs and a global community that treats their language like a philosophy. This is the story of Clojure.
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- Duration: ca. 1 h 6 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Programming Languages
- Tags: Programming Languages, Functional Programming, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 3,606
- Watch on: YouTube
CODE exposes the dearth of female and minority software engineers, explores the reasons for this gap and highlights breakthrough efforts that are producing more diverse programmers while showing how this critical gap can be closed.
Tech jobs are growing three times faster than our colleges are producing computer science graduates. By 2020, there will be over one million unfilled software engineering jobs in the USA. Through compelling interviews, artistic animation and clever flashpoints in popular culture, CODE examines the reasons why more girls and people of color are not seeking opportunities ...
- Duration: ca. 1 h 19 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Culture / Society
- Tags: Girls, STEM, Women in Tech
- IMDb rating: 6.2 / 10 (337 votes)
- YouTube likes: 50
- Watch on: YouTube
The official eBPF documentary.
In 2014, a group of engineers at Plumgrid needed to find an innovative and cost-effective solution to handle network traffic in SDN environments. What they created was a landmark in the industry known as the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (or eBPF). This vital technology allows user-level code execution inside the Linux Kernel, transforming network traffic handling for SDN environments. Whether these engineers knew it or not, they had just revolutionized the Linux Kernel. We go in-depth to explore the origins of eBPF and showcase the stories, challenges, and rewards ...
- Duration: ca. 30 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Linux, Kernel, Open Source, Networking
- YouTube likes: 4,778
- Watch on: YouTube
Get ready to explore the origins of the #Elixir programming language, the manner in which it handles concurrency and the speed with which it has grown since its creation back in 2011.
Featuring José Valim, creator of Elixir, and several other big names from the Elixir community, including Justin Schneck, co-author of the Nerves Project, and Chris McCord, the creator of the Phoenix Framework, this documentary highlights the power of open-source development and the role of Elixir in enabling developers to achieve things that were impossible, or prohibitively expensive, to do before.
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- Duration: ca. 13 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Programming Languages
- Tags: Programming Languages, Functional Programming, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 8,058
- Watch on: YouTube
Starring Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale (co-creators of Ember.js), as well as many other big names from the #Ember community, "Ember.js: The Documentary" explores why and how #Emberjs came to be, the pioneers behind its creation and the life-altering decisions that go into making #opensource software.
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- Duration: ca. 25 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Frontend, JavaScript, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 2,453
- Watch on: YouTube
The GraphQL Documentary 🚀🚀🚀 Starring Lee Byron, Dan Schafer and Nick Schrock (co-creators of GraphQL) and other big names from the #GraphQL community, "GraphQL: The Documentary" explores the story of why and how GraphQL came to be and the impact it's having on big #tech companies worldwide, including Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb and Github.
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"We have been really involved with the GraphQL community since founding Honeypot. We run the GraphQL Conf ...
- Duration: ca. 28 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: API, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 15,215
- Watch on: YouTube
To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the release of Half-Life we reunited the original development team to share their memories of creating Valve's first game.
Check out the Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update, restored content, new multiplayer maps, and a bunch of quality of life updates for the original game at http://half-life.com/halflife25
0:00 - Intro 1:33 - Early Days of Valve 8:29 - Technology & Scripted Sequences 17:06 - Character Design 30:14 - Creating the Opening Levels 37:09 - Weapon Design 39:46 - Sound Design 44:08 - Level Design 51:05 - Narrative & Voice Acting 57:48 - Xen 01:01:12 ...
- Duration: ca. 1 h 5 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Culture / Society
- Tags: Game Development, Valve, History
- YouTube likes: 280,118
- Watch on: YouTube
Go behind the scenes of the independent video game industry as this documentary follows the journey of passionate developers striving to create their own unique games. Through intimate interviews and gripping storytelling, "Indie Game: The Movie" reveals the struggles, triumphs, and sacrifices these developers make in pursuit of their dreams, offering an inspiring glimpse into the world of indie game development.
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Culture / Society
- Tags: Game Development, Indie Games, Software Engineering
- IMDb rating: 7.6 / 10 (21,724 votes)
- Watch on: Netflix
Inside Envoy is a new documentary for anyone interested in how open source technology works behind the scenes to shape our future.
Inside Envoy: the Proxy for the Future gives viewers an inside look at the journey from creation to mass adoption of the insanely popular open source Envoy project, one of the most useful open source projects in the world today.
Envoy was open sourced in the fall of 2016 and quickly gained adoption. In 2017, Envoy joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Today, Envoy serves trillions of daily requests and has been adopted by thousands of organizations ...
- Duration: ca. 32 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Networking, Service Mesh, Open Source, Cloud Native
- YouTube likes: 572
- Watch on: YouTube
This is the IDE that changed everything.
This documentary traces the 25-year journey of one of the most beloved tools in software development. Through rare archival footage, intimate interviews, and behind-the-scenes moments, it explores how IntelliJ IDEA challenged the status quo, shaped the Java world, and set the standard for intelligent tooling, all while staying true to its founding vision: helping developers do their best work.
Featuring stories from JetBrains creators, current engineers, and voices from Google, Oracle, and the Spring community.
Producer: Guillermo López Director: Jaś ...
- Duration: ca. 39 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Developer Tools, IDE, JetBrains, History
- YouTube likes: 1,514
- Watch on: YouTube
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00:00 — Source code 00:59 — Why IRC? 04:27 — Because It's Time Network 08:32 — Alku 11:40 — Trillian 16:00 — The splits 22:14 — The legacy of IRC 25:07 — Something special
References and sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQjGmdjmESDJP7dy6S5f2iXossxO1tfI-oHszpZrzfbnJvB3lPNscTtUVj43hf4HEzJVU6EbVlKwy8P/pub
- Duration: ca. 26 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Networking, Chat, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 15,203
- Watch on: YouTube
![Kubernetes: The Documentary [PART 1]](/EngineeringKiosk/awesome-software-engineering-movies/blob/main/generated/images/kubernetes-the-documentary-part-1.jpg)
The official Kubernetes Documentary Part 1.
Inspired by the open source success of Docker in 2013 and seeing the need for innovation in the area of large-scale cloud computing, a handful of forward-thinking Google engineers set to work on the container orchestrator that would come to be known as Kubernetes– this new tool would forever change the way the internet is built.
These engineers overcome technical challenges, resistance to open source from within, naysayers, and intense competition from other big players in the industry.
Most engineers know about “The Container Orchestrator Wars’’ ...
- Duration: ca. 25 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Cloud Native, Orchestration, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 12,674
- Watch on: YouTube
![Kubernetes: The Documentary [PART 2]](/EngineeringKiosk/awesome-software-engineering-movies/blob/main/generated/images/kubernetes-the-documentary-part-2.jpg)
The official Kubernetes Documentary Part 2.
Inspired by the open source success of Docker in 2013 and seeing the need for innovation in the area of large-scale cloud computing, a handful of forward-thinking Google engineers set to work on the container orchestrator that would come to be known as Kubernetes– this new tool would forever change the way the internet is built.
These engineers overcome technical challenges, resistance to open source from within, naysayers, and intense competition from other big players in the industry.
Most engineers know about “The Container Orchestrator Wars’’ ...
- Duration: ca. 31 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Cloud Native, Orchestration, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 5,949
- Watch on: YouTube
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Featuring Laravel creator Taylor Otwell and many others who’ve contributed to making Laravel the technology and community that it is today, Laravel Origins tells the story of why Laravel came to be, how it's grown over the last 10 years and what the future may hold for Taylor and the wider Laravel community.
Laravel Origins was filmed in late 2021, produced by OfferZen and directed by Dewald Brand, with shoots in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, Portugal, Belgium, ...
- Duration: ca. 33 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Web Frameworks, PHP, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 6,778
- Watch on: YouTube
Directed by Werner Herzog, this documentary explores the history, impact, and potential future of the internet. The film features interviews with pioneers of the tech industry and provides thought-provoking insights into the digital revolution.
- Duration: ca. 1 h 38 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Culture / Society
- Tags: Internet, History, Society
- IMDb rating: 7.0 / 10 (13,862 votes)
- YouTube likes: 5,701
- Watch on: YouTube
Back in 2008, most people thought of JavaScript as just a client-side language. But when Google's V8 appeared, young developer Ryan Dahl made the connection between non-blocking servers, V8, and JavaScript. It was by combining these key elements that he was able to create the now hugely popular Node.js.
What young Ryan Dahl probably didn't expect was how much forking drama would follow.
Join us as we delve into the origins of Node.js, meet some of its earliest contributors and explore the complicated dynamics between corporations using open source technologies and the dedicated community members ...
- Duration: ca. 1 h 3 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: JavaScript, Backend, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 23,868
- Watch on: YouTube
Watch and witness the journey of open-source monitoring system, Prometheus. Before Kubernetes existed—even before Docker—the team at Soundcloud already knew their monitoring system deserved a complete, fundamental revamp. Of course, as with anything in development, this was no easy task. Join us as we explore the story of Prometheus, from inception to adoption as told by the story’s key players including Julian Volz, Matthias Rampke, Björn Rabenstein, and more. In the end, you’ll see how a “problem to be solved” eventually led the industry to a completely new understanding of monitoring. We hope ...
- Duration: ca. 27 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Observability, Monitoring, Open Source, Cloud Native, History
- YouTube likes: 3,547
- Watch on: YouTube
This is the story of the world's most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side project in Amsterdam during the 1990s became the software powering artificial intelligence, data science and some of the world’s biggest companies. But Python's future wasn't certain; at one point it almost disappeared.
This 90-minute documentary features Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more, and they tell the story of Python’s rise, its community-driven evolution, the conflicts that almost tore it apart, and the language’s impact on... well… everything.
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- Duration: ca. 1 h 24 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Programming Languages
- Tags: Programming Languages, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 33,471
- Watch on: YouTube
React is easily one of the single most popular libraries in use today. Given that it was made within a juggernaut like Facebook, you might have assumed it was always destined for success. But what if we told you that React’s first brush with the public sphere was anything but glamorous? React.js: The Documentary brings you the full story behind the early days of React, focusing on the dedicated group of developers who helped bring it to the world stage. This story is told by an all-star cast of developers like Tom Occhino, Christopher Chedeau, Pete Hunt, Sebastian Markbåge, Dan Abramov, and many ...
- Duration: ca. 1 h 18 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Frontend, JavaScript, Meta, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 40,561
- Watch on: YouTube
Revolution OS (2001)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308808/
While Microsoft may be the biggest software company in the world, not every computer user is a fan of their products, or their way of doing business. While Microsoft's Windows became the most widely used operating system for personal computers in the world, many experts took issue with Microsoft's strict policies regarding licensing, ownership, distribution, and alteration of their software. The objections of many high-profile technology experts, most notably Richard Stallman, led to what has become known as "the Open Source Movement," ...
- Duration: ca. 1 h 25 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Culture / Society
- Tags: GNU/Linux, Open Source, History
- IMDb rating: 7.2 / 10 (2,708 votes)
- YouTube likes: 2,190
- Watch on: YouTube
Ruby on Rails has one of the most faithful communities online, it also has one of the most controversial, rabble-rousing creators out there, Danish programmer, David Heinemeier Hansson. Widely known as DHH, David tells us how Rails went from a crazy idea to one of the most talked-about full-stack frameworks over the course of 20 years.
Get the whole spill by the people who had a front-row seat to the creation and development of Ruby on Rails. Jeremy Daer, Jason Fried, Tobias Lütke, Jamis Buck, and… DHH tell the tale of Rails. A tale seeped with passion, pushback, and (after Rails 3.0) maturity. ...
- Duration: ca. 44 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Web Frameworks, Ruby, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 9,836
- Watch on: YouTube
"Silicon Cowboys" chronicles the rise and fall of Compaq Computer Corporation, a pioneer in the early days of the personal computer industry. This engaging documentary takes viewers back to the 1980s, when a group of visionary engineers challenged the dominance of IBM and transformed the landscape of technology forever. Witness the birth, triumph, and eventual decline of one of the most influential companies in tech history.
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Culture / People
- Tags: Hardware, History, Personal Computing
- IMDb rating: 6.9 / 10 (2,233 votes)
- Watch on: Netflix
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Svelte Origins: The Documentary tells the story of how Svelte came to be, what makes Svelte different, and how it changes the game as a JavaScript framework. Filmed in locations throughout Europe and the US, it features Svelte’s creator Rich Harris and members from the core community who contributed to making Svelte what it is today.
Svelte Origins ...
- Duration: ca. 32 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Frontend, JavaScript, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 6,992
- Watch on: YouTube
A documentary that exposes what corporations and governments learn about people through Internet and cell phone usage.
- Duration: ca. 1 h 20 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Culture / Society
- Tags: Privacy, Surveillance, Internet
- IMDb rating: 7.3 / 10 (6,643 votes)
- YouTube likes: 592
- Watch on: YouTube
This documentary reveals the hidden world of content moderation on social media platforms. It examines the challenges faced by those responsible for keeping the internet free from harmful content and the ethical dilemmas that arise in the process.
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Culture / Society
- Tags: Content Moderation, Social Media, Ethics, Society
- IMDb rating: 7.1 / 10 (1,929 votes)
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Explore how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolize the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 US presidential election.
- Language: en, de
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Culture / Society
- Tags: Privacy, Social Media, Politics, Data Analytics
- IMDb rating: 7.0 / 10 (25,799 votes)
- Watch on: Netflix
This is the FULL MOVIE! - The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work. Director / Producer: Brian Knappenberger Contact Information: http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy This movie is made available under the Creative Commons license: ...
- Duration: ca. 1 h 45 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Culture / People
- Tags: Hacktivism, Open Internet, Activism, History
- IMDb rating: 8.0 / 10 (18,551 votes)
- YouTube likes: 36,690
- Watch on: YouTube
TypeScript Origins: The Documentary is brought to you by OfferZen - the community-first developer jobs platform. The documentary features core contributors and community members like Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, Luke Hoban, Daniel Rosenwasser, Ryan Cavanaugh, Amanda Silver, Matt Pocock, Josh Goldberg & many more!
It also covers adoption stories and insights from JetBrains, Xata, AG_Grid, Deno, Visual Studio Code and Tech at Bloomberg.
#typescript #javascript #programming #softwaredevelopment
Sponsored by
- JetBrains (www.jetbrains.com)
- BBD (www.bbd.co.za)
- AG Grid (www.ag-grid.com)
- ...
- Duration: ca. 1 h 22 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Programming Languages
- Tags: Programming Languages, JavaScript, Microsoft, History
- YouTube likes: 9,557
- Watch on: YouTube
"If you're using a JavaScript framework, you're probably using Vite."
Created by Evan You (the mind behind Vue.js), Vite began as a frustrated response to slow build times with Webpack. What started as a personal side project for Vue users quickly grew into a framework-agnostic ecosystem embraced by React, Svelte, Astro, Remix, and more. Along the way, it sparked rivalries, rewrites, and community-driven breakthroughs that changed the frontend landscape forever.
Featuring many prominent developers in the JavaCript ecosystem, this documentary dives into the innovation, competition, and collaboration ...
- Duration: ca. 39 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Frontend, Build Tools, JavaScript, Open Source
- YouTube likes: 5,907
- Watch on: YouTube
by honeypot.io | What began as a side project of a Google developer now shares the JS leaderboard with #React and #Angular... With the help of Sarah Drasner, Taylor Otwell, Thorsten Lünborg and many others from the Vue.js community, Evan You tells the story of how he fought against the odds to bring #Vuejs to life.
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Honeypot is a developer-focused job platform, on a mission to get every developer a great job. Wanna see what we're all about? Check ...
- Duration: ca. 35 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Applications / Frameworks / Systems
- Tags: Frontend, JavaScript, Open Source, History
- YouTube likes: 52,873
- Watch on: YouTube
This documentary takes a deep dive into the world of Anonymous, a loosely organized international group of hacktivists. It offers a fascinating look at the power and influence of hacker culture in the digital age.
- Duration: ca. 1 h 37 min.
- Language: en
- Type: Documentary
- Category: Culture / Society
- Tags: Anonymous, Hacktivism, Security, History
- IMDb rating: 7.2 / 10 (10,528 votes)
- YouTube likes: 1,048
- Watch on: YouTube
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