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Channel 5 – Million Pound Hand Job (2019)

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Channel 5 – Million Pound Hand Job (2019)
English | Size: 853 MB
Category: Documentary


Explores the competitive world of hand modelling, offering a behind-the-scenes look at photoshoots from some of the UK’s biggest advertising campaigns. The programme uncovers what it takes to keep model’s nails in tip-top condition, and some of the unusual jobs hand models do, from doubling for A-list celebrities one day to holding a piece of fruit for hours the next. [Read more…]

RTE – The Boys in Green (2020)

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RTE – The Boys in Green (2020)
English | Size: 1.50 GB
Category: Documentary


Tells the story of the greatest period in the history of Irish football, as the achievements of Jack Charlton’s team put Irish football firmly on the global map.
From 1986 to 1995, the team that Jack built inspired unparalleled scenes of joy in the country and laid the foundation stones for Irish football for future generations. [Read more…]

Channel 5 – Building the Billion Pound Mega Bridge (2020)

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Channel 5 – Building the Billion Pound Mega Bridge (2020)
English | Size: 961 MB
Category: Documentary


Reveals the engineering secrets behind Montreal’s Samuel de Champlain Bridge, enabling it to carry one million vehicles every week and survive extreme temperature fluctuations. Super-strong expansion joints flex to allow the bridge’s individual deck sections to expand and contract as the temperature varies between -30C in winter and 35C in summer, while pier legs poured from superdense concrete are strong enough to withstand the crushing force of thousands of tons of river ice. [Read more…]

BBC – Ghosts of the Vietnam War (2020)

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BBC – Ghosts of the Vietnam War (2020)
English | Size: 455 MB
Category: Documentary


Hundreds of thousands of South Korean soldiers fought alongside the Americans in Vietnam, but the story of South Korea’s involvement in the conflict is largely untold. More than fifty years later, a victim of Korean atrocities travels to the capital Seoul in search of justice. As part of the BBC’s Crossing Divides season, Ly Truong reports. [Read more…]

BBC – Clive James Postcard from Shanghai (1990)

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BBC – Clive James: Postcard from Shanghai (1990)
English | Size: 825 MB
Category: Documentary


Clive sets out to find out about a city that was once known as the Paris of the East and discovered China on the brink of revolution. As demonstrating students joined three million cyclists to clog the streets, he encounters a once-wealthy socialite who survived the Cultural Revolution, a baby-washing entrepreneur, a local eel-gutter and a jazz band playing Jingle Bells on an empty ferry cruising up the Huangpu River. [Read more…]

BBC – The Falkirk Cowboys (2019)

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BBC – The Falkirk Cowboys (2019)
English | Size: 1011 MB
Category: Documentary


Nearly 50 years ago, in the unlikely setting of the British Aluminium plant in Falkirk, a group of around 20 workers put aside 15p a week from their wages to fund their other lives as film-makers. The Falkirk Cowboys tells the story of those men, their town and the impact of the films they made. [Read more…]

Fryderyk Chopin A Life and Times – Alan Walker

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Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times – Alan Walker (M4B)
English | Size: 639.56 MB
Category: Tutorial


A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time.
Based on 10 years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker’s monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. Walker’s work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin. [Read more…]