Mathilde Berchon posted on Making Society a list of 7 documentaries for the Open Hardware Entrepreneur:
7 Documentaries for the Open Hardware Entrepreneur
http://makingsociety.com/2014/03/7-documentaries-open-hardware-entrepreneur/
I particularly like the documentary on the Arduino project and team members:
Arduino: The Documentary got published in 2011 in Creative Commons. It’s 30 minutes of interviews with Arduino founders, Makerbot, Adafruit and many more key actors of the beginning of the open hardware movement. Did you know for example that teachers behind Arduino put it open source in order to avoid disappearing with the closing of their design school?
I first saw Revolution OS back when I was first discovering the open source software community. It think it an important documentary to understand Free/Libre/Open Source Software:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR6P0GueyVA
Revolution OS tells the story of how the open source software was born, at the time where Microsoft was still Micro-Soft and Linus Torvalds just released his OS. Besides giving you a clear understanding of the ideas behind open source, it is an in-depth look at how new practices and concepts can spread in a society.
cheers,
drew