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BBC – Our World 2019 Addicted Americas Opioid Crisis 720p HDTV

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BBC – Our World 2019 Addicted Americas Opioid Crisis 720p HDTV
English | Size: 326 MB
Category: Documentary


America’s love affair with opioids has had a devastating impact. Every 25 minutes a baby is born suffering from opioid withdrawal and a new generation is growing up with addicted parents. For years pharmaceutical companies made billions from the drugs, but now lawsuits are piling up and so are questions for regulators who should have prevented the crisis. Our World traces why so many Americans became addicted and meets children and workers on the front line who are now picking up the pieces. [Read more…]

BBC – This World 2019 The Day California Burned 720p HDTV

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BBC – This World 2019 The Day California Burned 720p HDTV
English | Size: 850 MB
Category: Documentary


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On 8th November 2018, a megafire swept through northern California. In its path was the town of Paradise. Within four hours, around 30,000 people had lost their homes. It was the deadliest fire in America for a century. Drawing on hundreds of hours of footage, this film tells the chilling and dramatic account of that day.
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BBC – True North 2019 The Last Showmen 720p HDTV

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BBC – True North 2019 The Last Showmen 720p HDTV
English | Size: 558 MB
Category: Documentary


The Cullen family have been bringing all the fun of the fair to people’s doorsteps since 1860. True North looks at this unique way of life and explores whether it is in danger of becoming extinct or if the next generation of Cullens can keep the family tradition alive. [Read more…]

BBC – France 1939 One Last Summer (2019) 720p HDTV

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BBC – France 1939: One Last Summer (2019) 720p HDTV
English | Size: 1.35 GB
Category: Documentary


Gustave Folcher, a French farmer, wrote in his 1939 diary that the summer had been long and hot. He was not alone. Many other anonymous French men and women wrote of the beauty and warmth of those summer months and how threats of war were far from their minds. [Read more…]

BBC True North – The Slim Club (2019) 720p HDTV

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BBC True North – The Slim Club (2019) 720p HDTV
English | Size: 538 MB
Category: Documentary


Follows a weight loss class in East Belfast providing a unique insight with weigh-ins, tea, tears, but much laughter.
Liz Miller invites viewers to experience her weight loss class which is a very unusual one. She takes a very personal approach and has a great relationship with each and every member, always making them feel good about themselves, whether or not they have gained weight, but also providing them with a safe and friendly haven to be themselves for one hour each week. [Read more…]

BBC – Own the Sky Jet Pack Dreamers (2019) 720p HDTV

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BBC – Own the Sky: Jet Pack Dreamers (2019) 720p HDTV
English | Size: 1.11 GB
Category: Documentary


What began as a passion for the tantalising possibilities of jetpacks became an obsession. Shot over ten years, this documentary chronicles Australian David Mayman’s seemingly impossible quest to fulfil his childhood dream to build and fly the world’s first jetpack. His ambition, which nearly cost him his life and family, culminates in an attempt to make the world’s first jetpack flight around the Statue of Liberty. [Read more…]

BBC – Gareth Thomas HIV and Me (2019) 720p HDTV

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BBC – Gareth Thomas: HIV and Me (2019) 720p HDTV
English | Size: 980 MB
Category: Documentary


Rugby legend Gareth Thomas lifts the lid on living with HIV. In an emotional and hard-hitting documentary he finally goes public about his condition and reveals how hiding the truth about his health left him feeling depressed and contemplating taking his own life. [Read more…]

BBC – Bombshell The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018) 720p HDTV

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BBC – Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018) 720p HDTV
English | Size: 1.01 GB
Category: Documentary


Documentary about Hollywood wild-child Hedy Lamarr. Fleeing to America after escaping her Nazi sympathiser husband, Hedy Lamarr conquered Hollywood. Known as ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’ she was infamous for her marriages and affairs, from Spencer Tracy to JFK. This film rediscovers her not only as an actress, but as the brilliant mind who co-invented 1940’s wireless technology. [Read more…]

BBC Our World – Forgotten Britain (2019) 720p HDTV

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BBC Our World – Forgotten Britain (2019) 720p HDTV
English | Size: 385 MB
Category: Documentary


In 2010, the UK government embarked on a major programme of public spending cuts, chopping tens of billions of pounds from many services, including policing, local government and public health. Local communities were expected to find other ways of providing vital services, but in some places it has been a struggle. Amid government claims that the decade of austerity is over, Michael Buchanan meets people in Hartlepool in the North East of England to find out how the cuts have affected them. [Read more…]