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PBS American Experience – Streamliners: America’s Lost Trains (2001)

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PBS American Experience – Streamliners: America’s Lost Trains (2001)
English | Documentary | Size: 510 MB

Using beautiful period footage and photographs – some of which have been held in private collections and never viewed by the public – and interviews with the men and women who rode and worked on the rails, Streamliners uncovers the dramatic story of the rise and fall of an American passenger rail system that was the envy of the world. [Read more…]

BBC Timewatch – The Empire State Story (2001)

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BBC Timewatch – The Empire State Story (2001)
English | Documentary | Size: 804 MB

Chronicles the construction of the Empire State Building in New York, which was the world’s tallest skyscraper when opened in 1931. Investigates the building’s history through interviews with the people who contributed to the construction of this iconic building. [Read more…]

BBC – War Grave (2001)

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BBC – War Grave (2001)
English | Documentary | Size: 966 MB

Intimate and moving stories of loss and remembrance are told by friends and relatives of those killed in some of the major conflicts of the 20th century, from the First World War to the Falklands. [Read more…]

ThatsTV – RAF Early Jets (2001)

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ThatsTV – RAF Early Jets (2001)
English | Documentary | Size: 366 MB

We look at the major jets used by the RAF between 1945 and the mid 1950s, the period when the British air force was the second largest in the world. Including footage of world record flights. [Read more…]

QUEST – When Dinosaurs Roamed America (2001)

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QUEST – When Dinosaurs Roamed America (2001)
English | Documentary | Size: 1.57 GB

How newly discovered fossils found in America have provided scientists with evidence of previously unknown species and helped fill a 30-million-year gap in the continent’s prehistory. [Read more…]

PBS American Experience – Fatal Flood (2001)

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PBS American Experience – Fatal Flood (2001)
English | Documentary | Size: 1.01 GB

In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million homeless. [Read more…]

BBC Arena – According to Beryl (2001)

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BBC Arena – According to Beryl (2001)
English | Documentary | Size: 1.12 GB

Dame Beryl Bainbridge takes an idiosyncratic tour of the last 20 years of writer and poet Samuel Johnson’s turbulent life, leading us through the streets of Streatham, the riches of the City of London and into the dank crypt of a suburban church wherein lies the gigantic coffin of gluttonous Henry Thrale. [Read more…]

BBC – Scene by Scene Donald Sutherland (2001)

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BBC – Scene by Scene: Donald Sutherland (2001)
English | Documentary | Size: 742 MB

Donald Sutherland made his name in some of the outstanding films of the 1970s – including MASH, Klute and Don’t Look Now – and has remained one of Hollywood’s most versatile actors. He talks with Mark Cousins about his life and work. [Read more…]

National Geographic – Super Croc (2001)

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National Geographic – Super Croc (2001)
English | Documentary | Size: 655 MB

Paleontologist Paul Sereno and reptile expert Brady Barr are doing a research on “Sarcosuchus Imperator”, a 40 feet long prehistoric relative of crocodiles. The story about the creature is presented through CGI animation as well. [Read more…]

Cromwell – Battlefield Guadalcanal (2001)

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Cromwell – Battlefield: Guadalcanal (2001)
English | Documentary | Size: 454 MB

Japanese and Allied leaders recognize the strategic importance of an airbase on Guadalcanal but neither side is well prepared for battle. [Read more…]