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BBC Natural World – Nature’s Wildest Weapons Horns, Tusks and Antlers (2017)

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BBC Natural World – Nature’s Wildest Weapons: Horns, Tusks and Antlers (2017)
English | Size: 1.09 GB
Category: Tutorial

The animal kingdom possesses a fearsome arsenal – a variety of extreme weapons used in epic battles to gore, stab, crush and batter. But are they more than just instruments of deadly force? For Professor Doug Emlen, it has been his lifetime’s ambition to discover the secrets of nature’s arms races, what triggers them and what they can teach us about the most formidable weapons on earth – our own. [Read more…]

BBC – Ted Hughes Stronger Than Death (2015)

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BBC – Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death (2015)
English | Size: 1.25 GB
Category: Documentary

Ted Hughes is widely recognised as one of Britain’s greatest poets. He is also one of the most controversial. The Heathcliff of poetry who ‘attracted more scandal than any other literary figure with the exception of Lord Byron’ as one contributor notes. Now, for the first time, the events of his life and the breadth and influence of his poetry are the focus of a major documentary. [Read more…]

BBC – Fighting the Power Britain after George Floyd (2020)

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BBC – Fighting the Power: Britain after George Floyd (2020)
English | Size: 899 MB
Category: Documentary

George Floyd’s killing in the US state of Minnesota sparked protests about policing, privilege and a revolution in race relations. Britain boldly presents itself as a beacon of racial tolerance, but with demonstrations sweeping the country, organisers believe that they are closer than ever to changing the way British institutions and individuals treat black people across the UK. There have been multiple campaigns for equality and justice for black British communities in the past, but none quite like this. [Read more…]

BBC – A Question of Sport at 50 (2019)

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BBC – A Question of Sport at 50 (2019)
English | Size: 1.04 GB
Category: Documentary

Tells the story of how A Question of Sport has evolved but remained in the primetime schedule since it first hit the air in January 1970. This romp through the archives from the 1,200-plus episodes includes the show where over 19 million people tuned in to watch the Princess Royal line up alongside Emlyn Hughes. [Read more…]

BBC Our Lives – Desperate to Drive (2019)

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BBC Our Lives – Desperate to Drive (2019)
English | Size: 562 MB
Category: Documentary

In a quiet corner of Cardiff, a unique driving centre transforms lives every day. Here, higher-risk drivers, who through illness or accident have been stopped from driving, have the chance to prove they’re safe to be on the road. To lose the ability to drive is to lose independence, identity and sometimes livelihoods. Many drivers go to the centre with great hope of getting back behind the wheel. Others are reluctant, fearing they may be taken off the road forever. The driving assessors face huge dilemmas – they decide if people can have the freedom they desperately want but if they make the wrong decision, they could put the public at risk. [Read more…]

BBC – Hiroshima (2005)

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BBC – Hiroshima (2005)
English | Size: 1.63 GB
Category: Documentary

A fully dramatised reconstruction of the story of the first atomic bomb deployed in an act of war. Interviews with both the aircrew who dropped the bomb and the survivors, special visual effects and archive all bring to life the fateful mission of the Enola Gay and the devastating impact of the bomb on the people of Hiroshima. [Read more…]

BBC True North – The Bat Catchers (2019)

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BBC True North – The Bat Catchers (2019)
English | Size: 398 MB
Category: Documentary

Bat-crazy volunteers Robin and Karen are on call 24/7 to save their favourite flying mammals. With a small team of volunteer ambulance drivers, they patrol the country rescuing bats from the most unlikely places. They have turned their homes into bat hospitals, and their living rooms into test-flight runways draped in nets and sheets. All in aid of getting these little mammals fit to be released back into the wild. [Read more…]