From: Reviews and Criticism of War Theatrical and Television Dramas (http://www.lasalle.edu/library/vietnam/FilmIndex/home.htm) compiled by John K. McAskill, La Salle University ([email protected])

P4020 PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY (USA, 6/20/1999) [TV]

Credits: director/writer, Martyn Burke. Cast: Noah Wyle, Anthony Michael Hall, Joey Slotnick. Summary: Docudrama/biographical film set in from the early 1970s thru the 1984. Steve Jobs (Wyle) and Bill Gates (Hall) pioneered an industry that literally transformed the entire world. The passion, luck and genius, greed and ambition of these quirky visionaries is explored in this saga of their decades long battle to rule the personal computer world. There are references to the Vietnam War.

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