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Lo más cercano a Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine primero
La red social 2010
Película
Mark Zuckerberg, alumno de Harvard y genio de la programación, se sienta a su ordenador y con empeño y entusiasmo comienza a desarrollar una nueva idea. En un furor de blogging y programación, lo que comenzó en la habitación de su colegio mayor pronto se convirtió en una red social global y una revolución en la comunicación. Seis años y 500 millones de amigos después, Mark Zuckerberg es el billonario más joven de la historia. Pero para este emprendedor, el éxito ha supuesto complicaciones personales y legales...
Las caras de La red social
- Una web nacida en una habitación de residencia
- Amigos que se demandan
- Diálogos rápidos y cortantes
Buena para ti si
- te gusta que la gente hable rápido y se destroce con las palabras.
- te gusta un fundador brillante y frío que pierde a sus amigos.
- te gustan las historias reales sobre cómo cambió el mundo.
Mala para ti si
- quieres que pasen cosas. Son todo reuniones y declaraciones.
- necesitas un protagonista que te caiga bien. Mark aparta de la empresa a su único amigo.
Temas: la ambición · la amistad · la traición
Steve Jobs 2015
Película
Biopic del mítico empresario y programador informático Steve Jobs (1955-2011), centrado en la época en la que lanzó los tres productos icónicos de Apple.
Las caras de Steve Jobs
- Entre bastidores antes de tres lanzamientos de productos
- Steve Jobs y la hija que negó
- Discusiones con Wozniak y Sculley
Buena para ti si
- adoras las discusiones rápidas y habladas de Aaron Sorkin en los pasillos.
- no puedes apartar la vista de Michael Fassbender como Jobs.
- quieres el retrato de un hombre más que la historia de una empresa.
Mala para ti si
- vienes por las keynotes en el escenario. La película se queda entre bastidores antes de que suba el telón.
- no puedes pasar dos horas con un hombre que niega a su propia hija.
Temas: la ambición · la paternidad · el control
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley 2019
Documentary
With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.
The sides of The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
- Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos
- A blood test machine that never worked
- A ten billion dollar company that collapsed
Good for you if
- you want the true story of Theranos and its blood test.
- you like watching hype and investors carry a company to ten billion dollars.
- you want to understand how Elizabeth Holmes convinced so many people.
Bad for you if
- you need more than interviews and boardroom footage.
- you want surprises, and you already know how Theranos ended.
About: fraud · ambition · hype
O.J.: Made in America 2016
Documentary
A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.
The sides of O.J.: Made in America
- A football star's rise in the 1960s and 70s
- Los Angeles, race and the LAPD
- The 1995 murder trial and what came after
Good for you if
- you want to understand a trial through the city around it.
- you like a true crime story told with care for the facts.
- you want O.J. the running back at USC and Buffalo, long before the trial.
Bad for you if
- nearly eight hours is too much for you.
- you can't look at real crime scene photos of two victims.
About: race · fame · justice · America
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates 2019
Documentary
Take a trip inside the mind of Bill Gates as the billionaire opens up about those who influenced him and the audacious goals he's still pursuing.
The sides of Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
- Bill Gates talking about his childhood
- His foundation's work on toilets, polio and nuclear power
- The people who shaped him
Good for you if
- you like a portrait of a real man in his own words.
- you want to understand how Bill Gates thinks.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at big plans to save the world with new toilets and vaccines.
- you need momentum. Much of it is Gates thinking out loud on long walks.
About: ambition · philanthropy · the mind
The Armstrong Lie 2013
Documentary
In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession. The Armstrong Lie picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong says himself, "I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one."
The sides of The Armstrong Lie
- A comeback film that became a confession
- Lance Armstrong and the Tour de France
- Years of doping and denial
Good for you if
- you want the inside story of a lie told to the whole world.
- you like cycling and the Tour de France from inside the team.
- you want to spend two hours with a champion you can't quite root for.
Bad for you if
- two hours of interviews and archive footage is too much for you.
- you'd rather skip the lawyers, sponsors and cycling officials who kept the lie going.
About: lies · ambition · fame
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson 2008
Documentary
Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.
The sides of Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- Hunter S. Thompson from 1965 to 1975
- Home movies and unpublished writing
- Campaign trails, drugs and Wild Turkey
Good for you if
- you like a portrait built from Thompson's own tapes and pages.
- you like a brilliant writer you wouldn't want to live with.
- you like his war with Nixon and the 1972 campaign.
Bad for you if
- you can't take drug abuse and a suicide in a real life story.
- two hours of archive on one writer is too much for you.
About: freedom · excess · journalism
Bobby Fischer Against the World 2011
Documentary
The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.
The sides of Bobby Fischer Against the World
- A Brooklyn chess prodigy
- The 1972 match against Spassky in Reykjavik
- A champion who vanishes into paranoia
Good for you if
- you like the true story of a genius who never fit in.
- you like the Cold War played out on a chessboard.
- you're drawn to an obsessive mind, brilliant and troubled.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear to watch a man's mental decline.
- you need more movement than archive footage of chess games.
About: obsession · genius · isolation
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing 2022
Documentary
Investigators reveal how Boeing’s alleged priority of profit over safety could have contributed to two catastrophic crashes within months of each other.
The sides of Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
- Two 737 MAX crashes months apart
- Families of the victims
- Engineers and pilots on the record
Good for you if
- you want to understand what led to two real crashes.
- you like seeing how money can win over safety inside a company.
- you want the technical failures explained clearly.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch grieving families talk about the people they lost.
- you need some hope by the end. The families are still waiting for justice.
About: profit · accountability · grief

The Defiant Ones 2017
Documentary
A four-part documentary series that tells the stories of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre -- one the son of a Brooklyn longshoreman, the other straight out of Compton - -- and their improbable partnership and surprising leading roles in a series of transformative events in contemporary culture.
The sides of The Defiant Ones
- Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre telling their stories
- From Brooklyn and Compton to the studio
- Selling Beats to Apple
Good for you if
- you like hearing how records you know were made.
- you like two real lives from rough starts to the top of the business.
- you like an unlikely partnership between a producer and a rapper.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at success stories told by the people who lived them.
- you can't give four long episodes to a music documentary.
About: ambition · partnership · success
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 2019
Documentary
An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).
The sides of Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
- Miles Davis and his trumpet
- Jazz from bebop to fusion
- Musicians and family remembering him
Good for you if
- you want to hear Kind of Blue and the records that changed jazz.
- you like a portrait that shows a genius and his darker side.
- you're curious about racism in America through one musician's life.
Bad for you if
- you can't face drug addiction and abuse of a wife on screen.
- you can't spend two hours admiring a man you wouldn't root for.
About: genius · reinvention · racism
Diego Maradona 2019
Documentary
Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the personal life and career of the controversial football player Diego Maradona who played for SSC Napoli and Argentina in the 1980s.
The sides of Diego Maradona
- Maradona's years at Napoli
- Never-seen footage from the 1980s
- The 1986 World Cup and the Hand of God
Good for you if
- you like football told through its most famous goals.
- you like a life told only with footage from the time.
- you like a man split between the hero Diego and the star Maradona.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch cocaine and a slow fall from grace.
- two hours and ten minutes is too much for you.
About: fame · Naples · addiction · talent
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2022
Documentary
The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
The sides of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- Nan Goldin and her photographs
- Protests in museums against the Sackler family
- A sister lost young
Good for you if
- you like a true fight against the family behind OxyContin.
- you like seeing museums made to take a name off their walls.
- you like an artist telling her own life through her slideshows.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch addiction, AIDS and a sister's suicide on screen.
- you'd rather not see intimate and nude photographs.
About: addiction · activism · grief
Imagine: John Lennon 1988
Documentary
The biography of former Beatle, John Lennon—narrated by Lennon himself—with extensive material from Yoko Ono's personal collection, previously unseen footage from Lennon's private archives, and interviews with David Bowie, his first wife Cynthia, second wife Yoko Ono and sons Julian and Sean.
The sides of Imagine: John Lennon
- John Lennon telling his own life
- Home footage from Yoko Ono's archives
- Cynthia, Julian and Sean looking back
Good for you if
- you love the Beatles and Lennon's solo songs.
- you want Lennon in his own voice, from Liverpool to New York.
- you like a portrait of a man with all his contradictions.
Bad for you if
- you find old 1960s and 70s footage dated.
- you can't revisit his murder in New York in 1980.
About: fame · love · peace · loss
Hitler: A Career 1977
Documentary
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
The sides of Hitler: A Career
- Archive footage of Hitler's rise
- Crowds at Nazi rallies
- The Weimar Republic sliding into dictatorship
Good for you if
- you want to understand how the Weimar Republic fell to the Nazis.
- you're interested in how crowds are swayed by propaganda.
- you want the story told through footage from the time.
Bad for you if
- two and a half hours of archive footage is too much for you.
- you can't sit through so many images of Nazi crowds and war.
About: propaganda · mass psychology · dictatorship
The Times of Harvey Milk 1984
Documentary
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.
The sides of The Times of Harvey Milk
- Harvey Milk's rise in San Francisco politics
- One of the first openly gay elected officials in the US
- The 1978 assassination and the city's response
Good for you if
- you want the real Harvey Milk, in the footage of his time.
- you like seeing 1970s San Francisco and its fight for gay rights.
- you can be moved by a candlelight march for a murdered man.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not sit through a real assassination and its grief.
- you find 1980s documentary footage dated.
About: gay rights · political courage · grief
Mr. McMahon 2024
Documentary
WWE experienced record-breaking highs and crushing lows under Vince McMahon's leadership. This docuseries delves into the mogul's controversial reign.
The sides of Mr. McMahon
- Vince McMahon in his own interviews
- Decades of WWE history
- Allegations of sexual misconduct
Good for you if
- you want to hear the people who built WWE tell it themselves.
- you like watching how one man ran an empire and everyone in it.
- you grew up on pro wrestling and want to see behind the curtain.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through accounts of abuse and coercion.
- you want a light trip down memory lane with your old wrestling heroes.
About: power · ambition · accountability
WeCrashed 2022
Series
Inspired by actual events—and the love story at the center of it all. WeWork grew from a single coworking space into a global brand worth $47 billion in under a decade. Then, in less than a year, its valuation dropped $40 billion. What happened?
The sides of WeCrashed
- A founder selling shared office space as a movement
- A married couple building a company together
- A startup valued in the billions
Good for you if
- you want the story of how WeWork grew so fast.
- you like watching Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway play Adam and Rebekah Neumann.
- you like a love story that is also a business partnership.
Bad for you if
- you need something to happen besides meetings, pitches and parties.
- you can't spend eight episodes with a founder you would never trust.
About: ambition · marriage · money · charisma
Feels Good Man 2020
Documentary
When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness and navigate America's cultural divide.
The sides of Feels Good Man
- Pepe the Frog, a stoner comic character
- A meme taken over by hate groups
- Artist Matt Furie trying to win him back
Good for you if
- you want the true story behind a meme you've seen everywhere.
- you like a gentle artist caught in something huge.
- you're curious how internet culture reached politics.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand hate symbols and online harassment.
- you want something light about a cartoon frog.
About: the internet · ownership · hate
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber 2022
Series
Based on the shocking true story, strap in for the meteoric rise and fall of Uber founder, Travis Kalanick. With a lift from venture capitalist Bill Gurley and board member Arianna Huffington, Kalanick takes a win-at-all-costs approach to forge the fledgling start-up into a multi-billion-dollar tech titan. But every surge comes at a price – and as his visionary drive spirals out of control, it threatens to be the downfall of it all.
The sides of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
- Travis Kalanick building Uber at any cost
- A venture capitalist backing a fledgling start-up
- A boardroom fight over who runs the company
Good for you if
- you like a boardroom fight between a founder, his investors and his board.
- you want the true story of how Uber became a tech giant.
- you like following a founder whose win-at-all-costs drive goes too far.
Bad for you if
- you need more than deals, board meetings and phone calls.
- you can't stand a series carried by fast talk about funding and growth.
About: ambition · ego · money · control