Viva Amiga - a pretty good documentary about the Amiga computer, which was so far head of everything* in the mid to late 1980s and a basic look at what went wrong (Amazon Video but no doubt available elsewhere):
https://watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=amzn1.dv.gti.24dade36-a61b-43d0-be7d-d17c21aa603b&ref_=atv_lp_share_mv&r=web
* Not quite - the British Archimedes computer had the first ARM chip and was way ahead of everyone in 1987 and the Atari ST was way better for MIDI with less mucking about. But, that and other counter examples (Apple caught up an exceeded by the late 1980s) aside the Commodore Amiga was notable for being relatively affordable and highly capable. It's worth knowing about for how something can be right but ruined by bad business decisions.
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