movies about silicon valley, computing

The Imitation Game

History of Personal Computers (documentary in two parts):
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIBr-kPgYuU

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSSjaGbM7j0


Not sure if television documentaries would qualify as "movies" -- Youtube is full of talking-head-type lectures and scholarly presentations which I find interesting, but they have no dramatic content per se, and might not qualify as movies. The Imitation Game however is a real "movie" with a dramatic plot and professional actors.
 
Matrix, do you mean where it was filmed?
You have the Silicon Valley series [2014]. More deliberate? Most of the movies are known by fans.
I watched the first few episodes of Halt & Catch [2014], set in Texas. It showed the personal computer business in the 1980s beyond the BIOS.

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What can you tell us about the movies?
 
Vull said:
The Imitation Game however is a real "movie" with a dramatic plot and professional actors.
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I remember watching this and enjoying it. The (Turing's) fate was very sad to learn about.

CuatroTorres said:
Silicon Valley series [2014]
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This is one of my favorite series as of late.

CuatroTorres said:
Halt & Catch [2014], set in Texas. It showed the personal computer business in the 1980s beyond the BIOS.
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I thought this show was cool.
 
alexseitsinger said:
I thought this show was cool.
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Second that. It felt like a tearjerker now and then but man that show is a hell of a ride from start to finish. It's one of those shows that feel like they ended too soon, even though it probably was for the best that it ended the way it did.

Brings you right into the glory days of computing and gives you this feeling of gold rush and expanding, never ending opportunities of the good old 80s. And a bunch of seriously good actors to top it off.
 
Again about the employer, Office Space (1999) is another great movie. It's considered a cult movie among the IT staff in my country. I take the opportunity to see it when I find it on TV. Lots of hilarious scenes, RIP ?️.

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Grell The movie that gave Darren Aronofsky his big start and most people don't know of it. One of the best low budget movies I've ever seen.

The Matrix, Mr. Robot are great films. The IT Crowd is funny for what it was. The first season or two of Silicon Valley was fun but the rest were just repeats of the same thread and boring. Halt was horrible--especially once they got to the homosexual scene which was totally unnecessary (if I got the right movie). The rest of the movies mentioned here are pure crap.
 
Don’t miss “Breaking the Code”. Though it is really mainly about Alan Turing and Derek Jacobi does an excellent job playing him.
 
It's a documentary but "Lo and behold" narrated by Werner Herzog. I watched a documentary on Compaq a couple years ago that was good too but can't remember the name of it. "Halt and Catch Fire" was I think, the series made from that same documentary.
 
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