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Matt D’Avella – Minimalism A Documentary About the Important Things (2016)

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Matt D’Avella – Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things (2016)
English | Size: 2.58 GB
Category:Philosophy


How might your life be better with less? Minimalism: A Documentary About the ImportantThings examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from all walks of life-families, entrepreneurs, architects, artists, journalists, scientists, and even a former [Read more…]

Marc Wiese – Camp 14 Total Control Zone (2012)

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Marc Wiese – Camp 14: Total Control Zone (2012)
English | Size: 1.15 GB
Category:Documentaries


Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in Camp 14, in fact a death camp. He was forced to labor since he was six years old and suffered from hunger, beatings and torture, always at the mercy of the wardens. He knew nothing about the world outside the barbed-wire fences. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he managed to escape. For months he traveled through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encountered a world completely strange to him. [Read more…]

Jill Fullerton-Smith – Alive 20 Years Later

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Jill Fullerton-Smith – Alive: 20 Years Later
English | Size:580.94 MB
Category:Documentaries


In 1972, a plane carrying a Chilean rugby team and their companions went down in the Andes Mountains with 40 people aboard. Thirty-two passengers survived the crash into the snowy hillside. The story of their ordeal was recounted by Piers Paul Read in his book, entitled Alive. Ten weeks later, when help came, only 16 people were alive. The story of their determination to survive, which included eating some of their dead companions, fascinated and shocked the world. This documentary catches up with the survivors 20 years later, for insight into the perspective that time has brought to their views and feelings about the event that changed their lives forever. [Read more…]

Humphrey Jennings – A Defeated People

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Humphrey Jennings – A Defeated People
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Category: History of War & Politics


The main shortcoming of the film was cited as its brevity (18 minutes), meaning that it could only skim over the surface of the complex and intractable issues involved. The Daily Worker noted “It is a fine piece of screen-craft…but how the subject screams for a wider, deeper approach”. The Glasgow Herald agreed that while it was “a fine example of British production”, it gave the impression of having been “cut down to the bone”. The Sunday Times too felt that in such a short running-time “the attempt to cover…the whole task of the Military Government in the British zone is hopeless”. [Read more…]

Discovery Channel – Aftershock Disaster In Nepal

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Discovery Channel – Aftershock Disaster In Nepal
English | Size: 1.16 GB
Category:Documentaries|Misc


Discovery Channel goes over the details of the two 2015 earthquakes which devastated Nepal. The documentary features close up accounts of those who survived the disaster, riveting news reports of when the quake first hit, as well as the countless rescue efforts that were being done. Interviews with experts are shown to help share the scientific explanations behind the powerful seismic event, and even the current efforts in developing technology that could help scientists predict and better manage when similar natural disasters occur. [Read more…]

David E. Fastovsky – The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs

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David E. Fastovsky – The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs
English | Size:278.99 MB
Category:Paleontology


The book is written as a series of readable, entertaining essays covering important and timely topics in dinsoaur paleontology and natural history. It will appeal to non-specialists and all dinosaur enthusiasts, treating subjects as diverse as birds as ‘living dinosaurs,” the new feathered dinosaurs from China, and “warm-bloodedness.” Along the way, the reader learns about dinosaur functional morphology, physiology, and systematics using cladistic methodology – in short, how professional
paleontologists and dinosaur experts go about their work, and why they find it so rewarding. [Read more…]

British Transport Films – 100 Years Underground

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British Transport Films – 100 Years Underground
English | Size: 319.10 MB
Category: History


Made in 1963 it provides a brief history of the Underground network up to that point. It’s interesting to see that while many things have changed in the last 50 years, many haven’t. For example, the Tube in 1963 looks about as crowded as it is today. Moreover, they were still trying to explain to people to stand right and not crowd the doors. If people haven’t learned these lessons in the past 50, I don’t think there’s a lot of hope in the next. [Read more…]

Bram Van Paesschen – Empire of Dust (2011)

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Bram Van Paesschen – Empire of Dust (2011)
English | Size: 1.04 GB
Category:Documentaries


Lao Yang and Eddy both work for a company called CREC (Chinese Railway Engineering Company). They have just set up camp near the remote mining town of Kolwezi in the Katanga province of the RDC. The goal of the company is to redo the road – covering 300km – that connects Kolwezi with the capital of the province Lubumbashi. Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials and food (mainly chickens) to arrive in the isolated Chinese prefab camp. The Congolese government was supposed to deliver these things but so far the team hasn’t received anything. With Eddy (a Congolese man who speaks Mandarin fluently) as an intermediate, Lao Yang is forced to leave the camp and deal with local Congolese entrepreneurs, because without the construction materials the road works will cease. What follows is an endless, harsh, but absurdly funny roller coaster of negotiations and misunderstandings, as Lao Yan learns about the Congolese way of making deals. [Read more…]