General Education level movies dealing with questions like: "What is Free Software?", "What is Linux?", "Is it hard to use?", "If it's free, is it any good?", "Is it any good?"

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Movie: Revolution OS - 1hr 52min

This movie details the history of Free Software in general. What it is, the ideas behind it, and why "open" is a better way to make software. It shows how, starting at Richard Stallman and the GNU project, it's advance through the creation of the Linux kernel, and then on to the modern Open Source movement.

It has portions of interviews with Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, Bruce Perens, and many of the other figures in the Free Software/Open-Source Software landscape, along with good naration. The movie is from 2001, so it is a bit dated. The number of users(and uses) of GNU/Linux has increased dramatically, and no mention is made of many of the current distributions or uses GNU/Linux has found it's way into. But it deals so well with the origin's subject matter that it should be a must watch for anyone new to GNU/Linux, or even for people currently using Free Software that have never seen this video.

Current uses of GNU/Linux include such things as literally 90% of all supercomputers, depending on the information source anywhere from 25% to 50% of smart cell phones world-wide, TIVO and most set-top-boxes and DVRs, even most modern televisions run it internally in what is called an embedded system.

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Movie: The Free Software Movement - 1hr 2min

This is a recording of a lecture given by Richard Stallman specifically about the Free Software movement. Here you will get some depth about the movement's origins, goals, and why it is so important.

This is from the Australian National University, recorded in October 2004. This is the second part of a two-hour presentation he gave. This video is provided courtesy of The National Institute of Engineering and Information Sciences (NIEIS) and The Australian Computer Society (ACS). Richard Stallman's dry wit and humor are in evidence here. Toward the second part of the video he dons his "Saint GNUcious robe and halo(an old hard disk) and goes into real geek humor.