Bill Gates
Also Known As: William Henry Gates III, William H. Gates
Biography: William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software giant Microsoft, along with his childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect, while also being its largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He was a major entrepreneur of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, USA
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Citizen Steve
Overview: On the occasion of the 40th birthday of the almighty filmmaker Steven Allan Spielberg, inquisitive reporter Clip Maxwell attempts to uncover the truth behind his undisputed rise to the throne of the Amblin Empire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Lab Leak Liars: How China and Authorities Deceived Us
Overview: For so long anyone who dared suggest COVID-19 began in a Wuhan lab was dismissed, criticised and mocked. Now the US Energy Department and FBI have conceded a lab leak most likely caused the pandemic. Sky News Digital Originals presents this report from Host Rita Panahi.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-02
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The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires
Overview: It happened more or less by accident; the people who made it happen were amateurs; and for the most part they still are. From his own Silicon Valley garage, author Bob Cringley puts PC bigshots and nerds on the spot, and tells their incredible true stories. Like the industry itself, the series is informative, funny and brash.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-22
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Monopoly: Who Owns the World?
Overview: Monopoly – Who Owns The World is an independent documentary produced by Tim Geilen. The film shows the institutional investment firms that sit at the top of the complex and opaque corporate pyramid structure. Monopoly shines a much-needed light on these corporations, the people behind them, and their rapacious behavior.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-01
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Leben nach Microsoft
Overview: Der Film portraitiert eine Gruppe von Microsoft-Aussteigern: im Ruhestand mit 32, Multimillionäre und ohne die geringste Idee, was sie mit dem Rest ihres Leben anstellen sollen. Ihre Jahre im Unternehmen, der Hype des Goldrausches und das Adrenalin des Erfolges hat sie ausgebrannt und doch sind sie entschlossen mehr aus ihrem Leben zu machen - vor allem Sinn und Bedeutung in der wirklichen Welt zu finden.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-06
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Icahn: The Restless Billionaire
Overview: Explore the contradictions at the heart of famed financier Carl Icahn. A polarizing figure described as both an activist investor and a ruthless corporate raider, Icahn rose from modest beginnings in Queens to become one of the richest men in the world, embodying the American Dream. Yet, he openly criticizes corporate excess and the huge wealth inequality gap.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-15
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All Things Digital: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Overview: The complete interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the All Things Digitial D5 conference July 2007
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-30
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Microsoft Judgment Day: Doom
Overview: Bill Gates gives a speech about Windows 95 and DirectX, starring as the marine from the hit game Doom. This video was screened exclusively to attendees at a Microsoft 1995 promo party, and then leaked a decade later on YouTube.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-30
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Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?
Overview: Alexandra Pelosi looks at money in politics and interviews wealthy donors to Republican and Democratic parties to ask them about their contributions and philosophies. Also: a look at efforts to enact campaign-finance reform.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-01
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Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World
Overview: The Money Programme's Fiona Bruce gains exclusive access to Bill Gates as he prepares to step down from full-time involvement with Microsoft, the company he helped found. Gates's company has changed the world, but he's a controversial figure, with his ruthless business leadership contributing to Microsoft being sued by the US government. In a special one-hour edition of the Money Programme, Fiona Bruce presents the definitive profile of Bill Gates as he embarks on his latest challenge: giving away the billions he's amassed. She examines the fortunes of Microsoft as it faces up to competition from internet-based companies, and the programme asks an array of well-known friends, colleagues and rivals what the future holds for the company in a post-Gates world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-21
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Time Bomb Y2K
Overview: As the clock counted down to the the 21st century, the world faced a potential technological disaster: a bug that could cause computers to misinterpret the year 2000 as 1900. Crafted entirely from archival footage and featuring first-hand accounts from computer experts, survivalists, scholars, militia groups, conservative Christians, and pop icons, Time Bomb Y2K is a prescient and often humorous tale about the power and vulnerabilities of technology.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-03
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Unity
Overview: Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one another, the animals, and nature. UNITY is a film about why we can't seem to get along, even after thousands and thousands of years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-12
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A Brief History Of The PC
Overview: The PC has changed the world of work and communication possibilities faster and more profoundly than any other technical invention before. invention before. The documentary "A A Brief History of the PC" tells the story of the PC in an exciting way.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-09-24
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Live 8
Overview: On 2 July 2005 an estimated 3 billion people came together in the fight against extreme poverty. LIVE 8 - 10 concerts featuring over 1000 musicians from across the globe - asked people not for their money, but for their voice.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-07
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Aces & Knaves
Overview: Aces & Knaves is a documentary about mental gymnastics, competition, and cheating in bridge - the most complex game ever invented by the human mind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-08
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New World Order: Communism by the Backdoor
Overview: A step-by-step illustration of how institutions including the United Nations and secret societies, such as freemasonry and the European Union, have all played their part in pursuing their end goal. Communism by the Backdoor exposes a tangled web of lies and deceit and shows the very people many regard as heroes, as nothing more than traitors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-07
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Microsoft: How to Succeed in Business with Workgroup Computing
Overview: Two brothers, Jake and Max work in product development at the Kitty Carnival Amusement company. The two office workers do not work well together and are sceptical at the new Microsoft Workgroups for Windows operating systems they are being forced to use, but with a looming deadline and some help from Bill Gates, they soon learn to love it, and go on to start their own successful company.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-27
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Becoming Warren Buffett
Overview: The story of the evolution of a boy from Nebraska who became one of the most respected men in the world, and the heroes who helped guide him along the way. By allowing access to his life and never-before-released home videos, Buffett offers a glimpse into his unique mind to help us understand what is truly important when money no longer has meaning.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-30
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Buffett and Gates Go Back to School
Overview: Learn from the two richest men in America -- Bill Gates and Warren Buffett -- as they discuss business and life in this lecture from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln's College of Business Administration. Though they're a generation apart in age and different in style, but with humor and insightful candor, the prosperous pals impart their wisdom about money, passion and finding one's place in the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-26
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Das Milliardenversprechen
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?
Overview: Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? reveals how American corporations orchestrated the dismantling of middle-class prosperity through rampant deregulation, the outsourcing of jobs, and tax policies favoring businesses and the wealthy. The collapse of the U.S. economy is the result of conscious choices made over thirty five years by a small group: leaders of corporations and their elected allies, and the biggest lobbying interest in Washington, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. To these individuals, the collapse is not a catastrophe, but rather the planned outcome of their long, patient work. For the rest of the country, it is merely the biggest heist in American history.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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Freakonomics
Overview: Some of the world's most innovative documentary filmmakers will explore the hidden side of everything.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-01
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Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
Overview: Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor Johan Söderberg. It looks at the arguments for capitalism and technology, such as greater efficiency, more time and less work, and argues that these are not being fulfilled, and they never will be. The film leans towards anarcho-primitivist ideology and argues for "a simple and fulfilling life".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-21
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One World: Together at Home
Overview: A global broadcast & digital special organized by Global Citizen and the World Health Organization featuring comedians, musicians, and actors to raise funds in support of front line health workers in the global response to COVID-19.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-18
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trustWHO
Overview: Is the WHO sick? The filmmaker and mother Lilian Franck reveals clandestine influences by the tobacco, pharmaceutical and nuclear industries on the organization. She shows a frightening portrayal of our present society, in which governmental politics is becoming obsolete. "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." - Martin Luther King
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-03-01
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Toilettes sans tabou
Overview: With humor and scientific rigor, this documentary lifts the veil on this eternal taboo and takes us all over the world to discover what the future holds for our toilets.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-11-07
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Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself
Overview: Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-24
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Pandemic: The People, The Conspiracy, The Journey
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-01
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Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story
Overview: A film that chronicles the life of Ric Weiland. The unsung hero of Microsoft and trailblazer for the LGBTQ community, Ric's bequeathed $65 million dollars to the Pride Foundation to support gay rights and HIV research. It is a dive deep into Ric's life and diaries to discover why Ric was the biggest benefactor for the gay community, why his friends loved him so much, and how he helped start an empire.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-14
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Tech Billionaires: Bill Gates
Overview: Bill Gates, the extraordinarily successful American business leader and philanthropist. One of the best-known entrepreneurs, who started a business out of a tiny space and grew it into one of the most powerful companies in the world, Microsoft. The tech billionaire legend has estimated net worth of over $100 billion. After spending 13 years as world’s richest man, he now spends his time and energy on tackling global poverty, and dedicates his efforts in philanthropic endeavours such as climate change, global health and development, and education. Talented, driven, a bold achiever with a long term vision, determined to make a significant positive impact in the world by helping the poorest countries. In this show, follow the journey of one of the world’s greatest leaders, from his early days as a quiet computer programmer, to the multibillionaire philanthropist he has become today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-22
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Top Spin
Overview: Three teenagers battle their way through the world of competitive ping pong with their hearts set on the Olympics.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-15
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AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special
Overview: Oprah Winfrey explores the profound impact of artificial intelligence on people's daily lives, demystifies the technology and empowers viewers to understand and navigate the rapidly evolving AI future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-12
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Visions of Heaven and Hell
Overview: Dennis Potter, Esther Dyson, William Gibson and other techno-thinkers appeared in this award-winning three-part documentary series which examined social changes brought about by new information technologies, along with other issues and dilemmas facing society in the 21st Century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-31
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