Favorite books/movies that you think other engineer types would like?

[RobertoLG]

book

Trojan Horse - J. J. Benítez    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caballo_de_Troya

[t3chiman]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087054/
Movie:
Typically, the engineer in drama is cast, and played, as a nerd, an introvert, and an abject failure with women. Playing against this stereotype is Keith Carradine, in Choose Me. It's an offbeat film. Carradine is never explicitly tagged as an engineer, nor is the film about engineering (actually it is a clever romantic comedy.). But he has the cocky techno-mannerisms down perfectly ("I flew jets down South."). Plays a mean hand of poker. Good with his fists. Patriotic. And, of course, is irresistible to the ladies (who he treats with dignity and respect). His scenes with Genevieve Bujold (The Crazy One) are not only marvels of acting, they also resonate with any engineer who has ever been attracted by the uninhibited energy of an unstable woman. Spooky.

[Nomsot]

I like best TV show review sites.
I often watch such websites, I look for interesting information about favourite TV series, new episodes.
Here, for example, I watch TV series of "The Daily Show". I visit the website and I check when new series are published.

[VK3DRB]

Movies:

1. Fail Safe (1964)
2. The Dish (2000)
3. 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
5. Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)

Fail Safe wins hands down for the best dialogue and screen play ever.

[MagicSmoker]

It looks like a spammer revived this thread from the dead, but what the hey... Some of the more interesting books I've read in the past few years that will really twist the old noggin (in no particular order):

Bad Monkeys - Matt Ruff (this is actually one of my favorite authors and I also highly recommend "Sewer, Gas & Electric - The Public Works Trilogy")
The Rook - Daniel O'Malley (loads of fun - the protagonist suffers total amnesia, but had a premonition it would happen)
The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff VanderMeer (this combines the books Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance)
The Golden Age Trilogy, Book 1 - John C. Wright (obviously books 2 & 3)
Another - Yukito Ayatsuji (one of the few books to scare me since I quit reading Stephen King in Jr. High)

[lordvader88]

way to many documentaries, talks and lectures, conferences, and classes of all subjects to remember or name, utube is luckily full of them for now

Ship salvage videos are really cool, thats all pretty new to me, companies have been recording those for decades which is great, lots of them
SVITZER CLASSIC
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love that 70s music too

As for movies, anyone mention
Deepwater Horizon (2016) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1860357/