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  • 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z
  • 10m
  • 1h 40m (10 episodes)
  • Canada
  • Documentary
The Artists is a deep-dive documentary into the first three decades of video game history through the lens of the designers, developers and programmers that lay the groundwork to redefine pop culture as we know it. It will investigate the intersection of creativity and technology, approaching specific games from this era as one would explore a seminal film. For a massive audience, video games are films of the 21st century, their primary source for storytelling. How did that happen? An energetic, entertaining account of this stunning artistic and business success story, The Artists is the saga of how the games from these pixel pioneers became such an influential cultural force.

10 episodes

Meet the group of rogue programmers who, in the 1980s, decided to elevate computer games to an art form.

Pong took computer games out of the lab and into the dive bar. Here's how the runaway success of Atari's first game led to the company's eventual downfall.

Though his industry was becoming increasingly concerned with the bottom line, Chris Crawford understood that video games could revolutionize storytelling.

Doom was a fast-paced and immersive first-person shooter game whose success was the envy of the industry.

Before video games could get graphic, text-based adventures imagined the future of literature.

The history-inspired Civilization games say less about the past than they do about what's next.

For one programmer, the future of gaming was about more than art. It was a social issue.

Extending his empire to the small screen, George Lucas built a video-game incubator on his own ranch.

Young doctors-turned-game-designers performed a digital transplant on an iconic role-playing game.

From the art gallery to the boardroom, video games are going places their inventors never anticipated.

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