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I bought the DVDs a decade ago and enjoyed it but remembered thinking that it missed large parts of my experiences online between '87-'93. Still though, it's great and I recommend it.

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BBSs were a very varied scene and experiences doubtless varied a huge amount. That's true with online communities in general but the BBS scene may have been even more varied than most.

Also even ten years ago, the heyday of BBSs was 20-25 years in the past. It's hard to reconstruct things from that relative distance. For example, I was looking at Boardwatch Magazine archives and what I find only goes back to about 1993 when a lot of BBSs were on the cusp of transitioning to ISPs.

Sometimes people mention that it is missing something and I often find that what they mean is some sort of specific geographical scene or a very specific BBS. Less than a dozen BBSes are mentioned by name because I was trying to do justice to the over 100,000 that lived.

is boardwatch magazine archive online?

Partial and mostly latter--which is good but mostly not from peak BBS:

https://archive.org/details/boardwatchmagazine

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