The Merchants of Cool:

[Earth_First]

Frontline: Merchants of Cool http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/

[fishwax]

1. oddly enough, my right-winger boss loved that show

and referred to it often. He was the single most conservative person I have ever known, and was always trying to get me to watch the VHS copy he'd recorded off PBS. I never have seen it, though I understand it would be much to my liking (despite my boss's endorsement).

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. It's available on streaming video at the pbs/Frontline site. Click'n'watch