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PBS – NOVA: Look Who’s Driving (2019) 1080p HDTV

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PBS – NOVA: Look Who’s Driving (2019) 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 1.74 GB
Category: Documentary


NOVA: Look Who’s Driving
After years of anticipation, autonomous vehicles are now being tested on public roads around the world. As ambitious innovators race to develop what they see as the next high-tech pot of gold, some experts warn there are still daunting challenges ahead, including how to train artificial intelligence to be better than humans at making life-and-death decisions. How do self-driving cars work? How close are we to large-scale deployment of them? And will we ever be able to trust AI with our lives? [Read more…]

Bright Now Asteroid or Alien Tech 1080p HDTV

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Bright Now Asteroid or Alien Tech 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 369 MB
Category: Documentary


Bright Now: Asteroid or Alien Tech ?
It was discovered on October 19th, 2017 and it was recognized as the first known object of its type. It is unique since it is the first known object that came from outside our solar system. But while we observed it, the mystery surrounding it grew. [Read more…]

PBS – NOVA Why Bridges Collapse (2019) 1080p HDTV

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PBS – NOVA: Why Bridges Collapse (2019) 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 1.96 GB
Category: Tutorial


NOVA: Why Bridges Collapse
Can new engineering techniques help prevent deadly bridge collapses?
In 2018, Italy’s Morandi Bridge collapsed, tragically killing 43 people. For 50 years, the iconic bridge had withstood the elements-and stress from ever-increasing traffic. What went wrong that fateful day? And how can new engineering technology protect bridge infrastructure to prevent such tragic failures in the future? Through eyewitness testimony, expert interviews, and dramatic archival footage, NOVA investigates the Morandi disaster and other deadly bridge collapses. [Read more…]

Smithsonian Ch. – A-Bombs Over Nevada 1080p HDTV

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Smithsonian Ch. – A-Bombs Over Nevada 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 1.65 GB
Category: Documentary


A- Bombs Over Nevada
The dropping of “Fat Man” and “Little Boy” on Japan marked the end of World War II and the dawn of the Atomic Age. The race against the Soviet Union to build a bigger, better bomb was on. The U.S. put their new nukes to the test on a desolate stretch of desert just 65 miles away from Las Vegas, and people traveled from all over the country to witness the detonations. This is the story of the nation’s grand atomic experiment and the bizarre atomic subculture that spawned beauty queens, new hairdos, and radioactive superheroes. [Read more…]

BBC – Hidden History The Lost Portraits of Bradford 1080p HDTV

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BBC – Hidden History The Lost Portraits of Bradford 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 1.25 GB
Category: Tutorial


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Thirty years ago, thousands of portraits from a small studio in Bradford were saved from a skip. They form a unique collection of photographs that records the changing face of a British industrial city in the middle of the 20th century. Many of the people in the portraits were new arrivals from the Asian subcontinent, eastern Europe and the Caribbean, attracted by the offer of work in wool mills. The names of these people are a mystery – only their faces survive. [Read more…]

ITVS – Tower (2019) 1080p HDTV

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ITVS – Tower (2019) 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 2.64 GB
Category: Documentary


Tower
On Aug. 1, 1966, a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes. When the gunshots were finally silenced, the toll included 16 dead, three dozen wounded, and a shaken nation left trying to understand what had happened. Archival footage is combined with rotoscopic animation in a dynamic, never-before-seen way to illustrate the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors. [Read more…]

Smithsonian Ch. – Black Hole Hunters (2019) 1080p HDTV

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Smithsonian Ch. – Black Hole Hunters (2019) 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 1.42 GB
Category: Documentary


Black Hole Hunters
Astronomer Shep Doeleman and his team are on a mission that will challenge the theories of Albert Einstein and could pave the way to a revolution in physics: to capture the first-ever image of a black hole. To do this, they must link eight multimillion-dollar observatories around the world to a spot 26,000 light years away. It’s the equivalent of spotting an orange on the moon, but after 10 years of planning and the combined brainpower of over 200 international scientists, the team feels they’re ready to make scientific history. [Read more…]

Smithsonian Ch. – Americans Underground Secret City of WWI (2016) 1080p HDTV

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Smithsonian Ch. – Americans Underground: Secret City of WWI (2016) 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 1.66 GB
Category: Documentary


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Americans Underground: Secret City of WWIBold text
An amazing discovery has been made beneath a farm field in Northern France: a vast underground city where World War I soldiers, on both sides of the conflict, took refuge a century ago. Even more remarkable, it is one of hundreds of buried havens set up close to a 45-mile stretch of the Western Front. Follow American explorer and photographer Jeff Gusky as he documents one of these long forgotten shelters, and witness his attempts to connect the names of the American soldiers etched into the limestone walls to their living descendants. [Read more…]

Curiosity TV – Breakthrough Opportunity a Life on Mars (2019) 1080p HDTV

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Curiosity TV – Breakthrough: Opportunity a Life on Mars (2019) 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 633 MB
Category: Documentary


Breakthrough: Opportunity A Life on Mars
This year we said goodbye to one of our most intrepid planetary explorers, the Opportunity rover. Take a look back at its storied 15-year mission on Mars, and how it revolutionized our understanding of not just the red planet, but our solar system at large. [Read more…]

BBC – This Green and Pleasant Land The Story of British Landscape Painting (2011) 1080p HDTV

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BBC – This Green and Pleasant Land: The Story of British Landscape Painting (2011) 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 1.34 GB
Category: Documentary


400 years of art history in 90 minutes? This film takes an eclectic group of people from all walks of life, including artists, critics and academics, out into the countryside to take a look at how we have depicted our landscape in art, discovering how the genre carried British painting to its highest eminence and won a place in the nation’s heart. [Read more…]