Technology

The Hacker Wars

Ripped from international headlines, The Hacker Wars takes us directly to the front lines of the battle for the fate of the Internet, freedom and privacy. The film itself tells us the story of an anarchic troll provocateur known as Andrew "weev" Aurenheimer, a prodigy hacker called Jeremy Hammond, and incendiary watchdog journalist Barrett Brown - three larger than life characters whose separate q

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Ancient Computer: The Antikythera Mechanism

In the spring of 1900, at the tiny rocky island of Antikythera a violent storm drives a group of sponge divers to take shelter, after three days the storm finally subsided and one of the divers decided to try his luck under water, he finds something entirely unexpected. All around him on the seabed are corroded human limbs, horses and faces. It is the largest horde of ancient marble and bronze scu

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The Creation of the Computer

The ability to think and reason is what makes us human, setting us apart from the rest of nature. People communicate in intricate ways about various complex subjects and at the centre of it all there is a thinking machine, the computer. With it our thoughts can be recorded and what once seemed possible now seems common place. Today computers are capable of amazing tasks that would boggle even the

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eSPORTS

With hundreds of millions of hardcore gamers and thousands of global tournaments each year, computer games are now well on their way to becoming the worlds biggest sports and at the centre of everything is a whole new bread of celebrity, the eSports superstar.The best players have left their bedrooms to compete in some of the worlds biggest stadiums, offered athletic visas and sports scholarsh

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Collaboration: On the Edge of a New Paradigm?

Collaboration is a film that sets about explaining a new way of thought or shift in paradigm with regards to the way we as humans create and educate ourselves. Collaboration is deeply routed within society and is something we need to rediscover in light of the new tools available to us today. To get a better idea of how the creative minds are operating these days, the filmmaker Alfred set out on a

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NASA: The Space Shuttle

With the idea being born in the midst of unsettled times, this idea somehow evolved into a feat of unexpected excellence, giving rise to one of the most complex machines ever built and with a mission no less extraordinary, transporting humans to and from space itself and helping to construct the International Space Station or ISS. Now however after completing nearly thirty years of

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Apple’s Broken Promises

In this Panorama special the truth about Apple and your iPhone is revealed, for the first time secret filming from inside the high security Chinese factories where Apples products are made show the reality of life on the production line. What this film discovers is an exhausted work force with staff falling asleep as they work. Panorama also travels further down the supply train to find children d

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Lamborghini Aventador

The raging bull of Lamborghini has been the symbol of extreme car design and engineering for nearly 50 years, but today as a new age of supercar dawns the Italian manufacturer has set itself one of the most ambitious goals yet, to blow it's competitors out of the water by creating the greatest super sports car the world has ever seen. This is a game changing vehicle that will alter the scope of su

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A Brief History of Graphics

Some say graphics aren't important but with every game having them, they are a clear sign of the technology available at the time of production. From early prototypes and dots moving across the screen to an explosion of arcade games and the emergence of 3D renderings graphics have come along way over the years.In this 5-part documentary by Stuart Brown we look at the milestones in graphic deve

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