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BBC – Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)

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BBC – Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)
English | Size: 1.28 GB
Category: Documentary

Documentary chronicling the life of one of the 20th century’s greatest movie directors, whose works included A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Narrated by Tom Cruise, this revealing insight into the career and private life of the film-maker features tributes from his wife of 42 years Christiane and many well-known actors including Woody Allen and Jack Nicholson. [Read more…]

BBC Timewatch 2001 The Victorian Way of Death 720p HDTV x264 AAC

14/06/2019 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC Timewatch 2001 The Victorian Way of Death 720p HDTV x264 AAC
English | Size: 840 MB
Category: Documentary

Dan Cruickshank investigates the circumstances and rituals surrounding death in Victorian Britain by piecing together the fate of five apparently unrelated corpses.

The story he uncovers is one of bizarre extremes – of bodysnatchers and the bodies they snatched; of inner-city graveyards so overflowing that the limbs of the dead could be seen protruding from the newly dug earth; of the great new cemeteries where a tomb cost as much as a terrace of houses in east London; of the suspicious resistance which greeted the ‘heathenish’ practice of cremation; and of the carnage of the Western Front where Victorian ideals about death – and the afterlife – were finally shattered by the violence of the Great War. [Read more…]

Robert Solomon – Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life (2001)

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Robert Solomon – Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life (2001)
English | Size: 355.99 MB
Category: Philosophy

If you believe that life should be a quest for values, reasons, and purpose-filled with passion and governed by individual responsibility-then yours is the sort of mind to which the Existentialist philosophers were speaking.
More than a half-century after it burst upon the intellectual scene, Existentialism has continued to exert a profound attraction for individuals driven to re-examine life’s most fundamental questions of individual responsibility, morality, and personal freedom. [Read more…]