Documentaries:
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e-Dreams : An in-depth look at the highs and lows of a dot com. The movie follows the founders of Kozmo.com as they raise money and file for IPO. But no one has predicted the market crash in April 2000.
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Startup.com : Traces the birth and failure of new media company govWorks.com
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Triump of the Nerds : 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. Some of the episode participants include: Bill Gates (Chairman of Microsoft, the richest man in the world), Steve Jobs (Hippie co-founder of Apple Computer; CEO of NeXT Computer; and the man who wanted to change the world), and Steve Wozniak (Co-founder of Apple Computer; engineering genius, practical joker).
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DocuDrama where Documentary meets Drama:
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Pirates of Silicon Valley : This film is the semi-humorous documentary about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Corporation and Microsoft Inc..
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Dang good fictional movies with Entrepreneur spirit:
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Baby Boom : The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
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Tucker : The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.
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The Hudsucker Proxy : A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
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Jerry Maguire : When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlete who stays with him.
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Forrest Gump : Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him.
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The Coca-Cola Kid : An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration.
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Big Night : A failing Italian restaurant run by two brothers gambles on one special night to try to save the business.
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WallStreet : A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
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Barbarians at the Gate : F. Ross Johnson, the CEO of RJR Nabisco decides that the time is ripe to take over his own company and enlists American Express. This kicks off a tide of other firms swarming in to tender offers. The outline of the film follows the actual takeover of the RJR Nabisco empire in a tongue in cheek way.
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The Secret of My Succe$s : A talented young man can't get an executive position without rising through the ranks, so he comes up with a shortcut, which also benefits his love life.
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Big : When a boy wishes to be big at a magic wish machine, he wakes up the next morning and finds himself in an adult body literally overnight.
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Boiler Room : A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.
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Trading Places : A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires
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