Ten years after Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy, the demise of the one-time movie rental giant has become the stuff of legend. The popular narrative typically casts Blockbuster as a lumbering, old ...

Long before Netflix, there was Blockbuster Video. The very first Blockbuster Video Store opened on October 19, 1985, in Dallas, Texas. It was opened by David Cook as a lone video rental store, but the ...

In early 2000, with their company on the brink of failure, Netflix founders Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph flew to Dallas to meet with Blockbuster executives. As the story is told, they offered to ...