Technology

Fatal Flaws: The OceanGate Story

Fatal Flaws: The OceanGate Story delves into the tragic events surrounding the OceanGate submersible disaster that occurred during an expedition to the Titanic. It examines how the Titan, a privately operated submersible, imp...

The Rise of Big Tech

The Rise of Big Tech explores the meteoric rise and dominance of the world’s largest technology companies over the past two decades. The documentary traces how corporations such as Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and others evol...

AlphaGo

AlphaGo examines how a team of computer scientists created an artificial intelligence algorithm capable of playing the board game Go, and how it fared against human opponents. The goal of the development team was to create an...

Pixel Pioneers: A Brief History of Graphics

Pixel Pioneers: A Brief History of Graphics explores the evolution of video game graphics over the years. Visuals are often considered one of the most important aspects of gaming, reflecting the technological capabilities ava...

The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

The Internet’s Own Boy chronicles the life and work of internet activist and programming prodigy Aaron Swartz. Swartz was involved in pioneering web development projects from an early age. However, his social and political ac...

Phreaked Out

Phreaked Out is a three-part series that delves into two worlds: hacking and interconnected technology. It examines how the ‘internet of things’ and hacking intersect. The first episode introduces white-hat hackers and securi...

The Pirate Bay: Away from Keyboard

The Pirate Bay: Away from Keyboard focuses on the personal successes and defeats of the founders of the world’s largest file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay — Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, and Peter Sunde — as they battle...

Attack of the Drones: Is War Becoming a Video Game?

Attack of the Drones looks into the growing role that drones play in peacekeeping and military endeavours. It opens inside an air force data centre filled with banks of screens, some of which display the data being fed to ser...

Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World

BBC presenter Fiona Bruce follows Bill Gates as he ends his full-time employment at Microsoft, the software giant he co-founded with Paul Allen. Although his firm has revolutionised the world, Gates has been known for his con...

The Machine That Made Us

The invention of the printing press was revolutionary in its time and remains one of the hallmarks of human achievement. With the printing press and the introduction of the printed word, the landscape of history was forever c...

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Who Killed the Electric Car shows how an innovation aimed at eliminating the need for petrol to fuel cars in the 1990s was suppressed by the automotive industry. General Motors unveiled its EV-1 in 1997 as a vehicle that prov...

Code Rush

Code Rush revolves around the lives of engineers at web-browser developer Netscape as they race to write the code for the Mozilla open-source project in a bid to save their company from collapse. Set in Silicon Valley during...