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NHK – Poisonous Secrets What did Japan and the US bury (2020)

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NHK – Poisonous Secrets: What did Japan and the US bury (2020)
English | Size: 514 MB
Category: Tutorial

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During WW2, Japan and the US each developed chemical weapons and trained their troops to use them. Near the end of the Pacific War, the Imperial Japanese Army stockpiled vast amounts of poison gas for use as a last resort. The US military, meanwhile, drew up chemical weapons plans that would have devastated Japan. After the war, both the US and Japan concealed the truth concerning these weapons. But newly unearthed documents and personal accounts shed light on this dark legacy. [Read more…]

NG Explorer – How to Build an Ancient Man (2010)

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NG Explorer – How to Build an Ancient Man (2010)
English | Size: 1.14 GB
Category: Documentary

After finding strands of human hair buried in Greenland’s permafrost, scientists are attempting the impossible: to be the first to reconstruct the identity of a Stone Age human being through nothing but his ancient locks. From scraps of DNA an ancient face appears. Further discoveries in the genetic code threaten to overturn long-held beliefs of how humans populated the earth. [Read more…]

BBC – Travelling Blind (2019)

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BBC – Travelling Blind (2019)
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Amar Latif was told, aged four, that he would be blind by the time he was 18. However, his lack of sight hasn’t prevented him from experiencing the world. He has travelled extensively, visiting over a hundred countries and taken up skydiving, bungee jumping and skiing. Whenever Amar travels he relies on someone sighted to guide him. In return he opens their eyes and all their senses to a completely different way of travelling. [Read more…]

BBC True North – The First Generation (2020)

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BBC True North – The First Generation (2020)
English | Size: 463 MB
Category: Documentary

As Northern Ireland approaches its centenary in 2021, Stephen Walker meets some of the men and women who are as old as the state of Northern Ireland itself. In this heartwarming programme, Stephen encounters four women and one man born in 1921: Aileen Pollock, Martin Charters, Isobel Lavery, Eileen Sweeney and Mairead Liddy. Through conversations with them, he discovers how they all witnessed great social, economic and political change over the decades. [Read more…]

BBC Storyville – Notes on Blindness (2017)

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BBC Storyville – Notes on Blindness (2017)
English | Size: 847 MB
Category: Documentary

A moving and inspiring account of loss, rebirth and renewal – and the discovery of ‘a world beyond sight’. In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, John Hull, a professor at the University of Birmingham, became totally blind. To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began documenting his experiences on audio cassette. Over three years he recorded over sixteen hours of material. [Read more…]

BBC Our Lives – Our Island Home (2019)

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BBC Our Lives – Our Island Home (2019)
English | Size: 508 MB
Category: Documentary

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Follows the Scharer family – Ned, Sophie, Rowan and Sam from Betws-y-Coed in the Snowdonia national park – who have beaten off competition from around the world to secure the job as the wardens of Bardsey Island. Bardsey is a remote yet idyllic island almost two miles from the coast of the Llyn peninsula in north west Wales. It’s the Scharers’ chance to escape the busy, tech-filled existence that so many of us lead and embrace the ‘simple life’ as the new custodians – managing, renovating, and caring for the island whilst hoping to become a closer family unit in the process. [Read more…]