Friday 24 February 2017

top must watch tv shows and movies based on Entrepreneur and politics to learn to deal with failure and motivation






The Pursuit of Happyness Chris Gardner takes up an unpaid internship in a brokerage firm after he loses his life's earnings selling a product he invested in. His wife leaves him and he is left with the custody of his son.




 Silicon Valley
Set amidst the high-tech world of the Silicon Valley in USA, the series revolves around the struggles of six programmers who are trying to make a mark in the big, bad world of programming.





Pirates of Silicon Valley is an original 1999 TNT American drama film, directed by Martyn Burke and starring Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates. Wikipedia




 

The Wolf of Wall Street
Jordan Belfort, a rich stockbroker, gets attracted to the world of crime and corruption that ultimately leads to his downfall.





Mark Zuckerberg creates a social networking site, Facebook, with the help of his friend Eduardo Saverin. But soon, a string of lies tears their relationship apart even as Facebook connects people.





Joy (2015)
Despite facing several hardships, Joy Mangano, a divorced mother of two, rises against all odds and sets up a successful business empire.





Up in the Air
Ryan, a corporate downsizing expert, takes his new colleague on his office tour. On the way he meets another flier and the two begin a casual relationship.




 A college drop-out gets a job as a broker for a investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success. However, success clouds his judgement, drawing him into a world of corruption and greed.




House of Cards
Frank Underwood is a Democrat appointed as the Secretary of State. Along with his wife, he sets out on a quest to seek revenge from the people who betrayed him while successfully rising to supremacy.



 Shark Tank
Aspiring entrepreneurs from around the world pitch their business models to a panel of investors and persuade them to invest money in their idea.



 The Newsroom
At the Atlantis Cable News Channel, news anchor Will McAvoy is forced to work with new colleagues when his previous team decides to jump shows.



 Catch Me If You Can
Frank Abagnale Jr is a con man who poses as a pilot, doctor and lawyer and cashes forged cheques worth millions before his 21st birthday, despite being constantly chased by FBI agent Carl Hanratty.



 Lord of War (2005)
The 20-year arms dealing career of Queens, N.Y., outcast Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) serves as a window onto the end of the Cold War and the emergence of worldwide terrorism. He finds himself reassuring his more ethically challenged younger brother, Vitaly (Jared Leto),





War Dogs
War Dogs is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed by Todd Phillips and written by Phillips, Jason Smilovic and Stephen Chin, based on a Rolling Stone article by Guy Lawson. Lawson then wrote a book titled Arms and the Dudes detailing the story. Wikipedia



 Flash of Genius

 Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor, Robert Kearns, who took on the Detroit auto-makers who he claimed, stole his idea for the intermittent wind-shield wiper.


The Founder
This drama tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential.




October Sky
The true story of one of America's first rocket engineers and how he went against his father's wishes to fulfil his great destiny.



 Masters of Sex
American drama series
William Masters and Virginia Johnson are known as pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research shoots them to fame on a trajectory that takes them from humble beginnings in the Midwest to the cover of Time magazine.