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Channel 5 – On Board Britain’s Nuclear Submarine Trident (2020)

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Channel 5 – On Board Britain’s Nuclear Submarine: Trident (2020)
English | Size: 800 MB
Category: Documentary

Cameras are granted access to one of the UK’s nuclear missile submarines at sea, as Rob Bell spends five days and nights living on board the HMS Vengeance. With unprecedented access, he explores the sonar room, torpedo bay, and nuclear missile tubes loaded with deadly warheads, and later finds himself in real danger along with the rest of the crew when a fault in the engine room turns into a potentially serious incident. [Read more…]

NHK Kabuki Kool – The Fight of the Megumi Firemen and Sumo Wrestlers (2020)

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NHK Kabuki Kool – The Fight of the Megumi Firemen and Sumo Wrestlers (2020)
English | Size: 598 MB
Category: Documentary

A historic fight between sumo wrestlers and the Megumi firefighting gang is dramatized in this play, which ends in a free-for-all on stage. Kabuki actor Kataoka Ainosuke is our guide. The firemen on the left, headed by their leader Tatsugoro confront the sumo wrestlers on the right, headed by their leader, champion wrestler Yotsuguruma. [Read more…]

BBC Imagine – Sweet Home New Orleans (2006)

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BBC Imagine – Sweet Home New Orleans (2006)
English | Size: 1.30 GB
Category: Tutorial

Could New Orleans’s days as a great musical powerhouse be coming to an end? As Alan Yentob traces the city’s vast musical heritage, he meets musicians who have lived and worked there all their lives and are determined to return despite the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. With contributions from Paul McCartney, Dr John, Jools Holland and Elvis Costello. [Read more…]

UKTV – Secret Nazi Bases (2019)

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UKTV – Secret Nazi Bases (2019)
English | Size: 1.53 GB
Category: Tutorial

Uncovering hidden structures built by the Nazis.
Ch1. Guernsey: Hitler’s Island Madness
Documentary uncovering and examining hidden structures built by the Nazis, from tunnels to towers, artillery sites, resistance nests and communication centres. The first edition focuses on the Channel Island of Guernsey, which Hitler occupied and fortified over the course of five years. [Read more…]

CH4 Dispatches – American Nightmare Trump’s Breadline Kids (2020)

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CH4 Dispatches – American Nightmare: Trump’s Breadline Kids (2020)
English | Size: 807 MB
Category: Tutorial

Ahead of the US elections, this documentary follows three children and their families in the battleground state of Ohio, where the Covid-19 pandemic has intensified their struggle to stay afloat. As the US also reckons with issues of race and racism, the youngsters share their worries and hopes about their futures. [Read more…]

BBC – Remembrance Sunday The Cenotaph (2020)

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BBC – Remembrance Sunday: The Cenotaph (2020)
English | Size: 1.30 GB
Category: DOcumentary

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David Dimbleby presents live coverage from the Cenotaph. The royal family, the government and the armed forces will gather in Westminster for the National Service of Remembrance. The ceremony this year has been adapted for social distancing, and the traditional march-past will not take place. The two-minute silence at 11 o’clock will be followed by wreath-laying at the foot of the Cenotaph as the nation remembers all those who died serving their country. [Read more…]

BBC – Punk and New Wave Years with Annie Nightingale (2020)

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BBC – Punk and New Wave Years with Annie Nightingale (2020)
English | Size: 1.34 GB
Category: Tutorial

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The veteran radio and Old Grey Whistle Test presenter recalls a radical era in music, which dominated the pop landscape during the late 1970s. Back then, punk was hard to find on mainstream television and Annie sought to build a platform for young people to have their say. Here, Annie opens up the archive to select some of the finest and most intriguing moments from this era. Covering punk, post-punk and new wave, she explores a movement in music that became the soundtrack to a generation referencing clips featuring the Damned, the Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Gang of Four, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tubeway Army, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soft Cell, the Selecter, Joy Division and the Au Pairs. [Read more…]

BBC – 21st Century Mythologies (2020)

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BBC – 21st Century Mythologies (2020)
English | Size: 699 MB
Category: Documentary

Richard Clay explores how Mythologies, written in 1957 by French philosopher Roland Barthes, laid bare the myth-making at the heart of popular culture. Now, following in Barthes’s footsteps, Richard Clay dissects some of the everyday myths we still take for granted in the 21st century, revealing the hidden meanings in everything from money, Wi-Fi and race to the Madonna. [Read more…]

Doclights – Bucket List South America (2020)

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Doclights – Bucket List: South America (2020)
English | Size: 1.60 GB
Category: Documentary

One of the biggest continents, South America should be up there on any wildlife watcher’s bucket list. From record-breaking mountain ranges to the most massive rainforests, the variety of landscapes supports a seemingly endless diversity of wildlife. [Read more…]

BBC The Adventure Show – The Super Crag (2020)

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BBC The Adventure Show – The Super Crag (2020)
English | Size: 5.35 GB
Category: Tutorial

Climbers say it has some of the hardest and longest sports climbing routes in Scotland, so little wonder they have dubbed it The Super Crag. Four of Scotland’s most talented young athletes – Calum Cunningham, Emma Davidson, Rhys Langlands and Hannah Smith – travel to near Gairloch to explore this intimidating rock formation by the side of Loch Maree. [Read more…]