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BBC – A Year to Save My Life George McGavin and Melanoma 720p HDTV

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BBC – A Year to Save My Life George McGavin and Melanoma 720p HDTV
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Today’s play features two sumo wrestlers as protagonists! Kabuki actor Kataoka Ainosuke talks about sumo in the Edo period and the story of “Futatsu Chocho Kuruwa Nikki.” [Read more…]

BBC – D-Day to Berlin A Newsnight Special 1080p HDTV

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BBC – D-Day to Berlin A Newsnight Special 1080p HDTV
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George Stevens’s remarkable film is acclaimed by historians as the most important colour footage taken during the war. Milestones covered include the liberation of Paris, the link-up between the Russian and American armies on the River Elbe and the Allied capture of the Dachau concentration camp. [Read more…]

BBC – This World 2019 Anna The Woman Who Went to Fight ISIS 720p HDTV

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BBC – This World 2019 Anna The Woman Who Went to Fight ISIS 720p HDTV
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In 2017, 25-year-old Anna Campbell from Lewes in East Sussex travelled in secret to northern Syria. She was heading for Rojava, the Kurdish territory in the north of the country. In the midst of the civil war in Syria, a fledgling feminist democracy had been established but almost immediately came under threat from the so-called Islamic State. Just eight months after arriving and with no military background, Anna went to the front line to fight with Kurdish YPJ. A month later she was killed by a Turkish air strike. With access to her diary and videos filmed while she was there, this film explores what motivated Anna to leave and how her family make sense of the tragic consequences. [Read more…]

BBC – The Jazz Ambassadors 720p HDTV

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BBC – The Jazz Ambassadors 720p HDTV
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In 1955, the African-American congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie announced a new Cold War weapon to combat the Soviet Union – America’s iconic jazz musicians and their racially integrated bands would cross the globe to counter negative propaganda about racism in American.
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BBC – Glastonburys Greatest Headliners 720p HDTV

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BBC – Glastonburys Greatest Headliners 720p HDTV
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Edith Bowman narrates this affectionate but witty A-Z of 25 years’ worth of Pyramid Stage headliner action since television cameras first came to Pilton in 1994.

Tracking the festival’s emergence as a global stage featuring the biggest names in popular music across a variety of genres this retrospective celebration blends archive clips and backstage testimony alongside new interviews with the likes of Damon Albarn, Liam Gallagher, Skunk Anansie’s Skin, Chemical Brothers, Jarvis Cocker and the Eavis family. [Read more…]

BBC – The Unwanted The Secret Windrush Files 1080p HDTV

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David Olusoga opens secret government files to show how the Windrush scandal and the ‘hostile environment’ for black British immigrants has been 70 years in the making.

The film features Sarah O’Connor, Anthony Bryan and Judy Griffith. Settled here legally since childhood, they were re-classified as illegal immigrants by new ‘hostile environment’ regulations. Unable to show proof of their nationality status, they lost jobs, savings and their health, facing deportation back to countries they could barely remember.
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BBC – The Flu That Killed 50 Million 1080p HDTV

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BBC – The Flu That Killed 50 Million 1080p HDTV
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It is 1918 and the end of WWI. Millions have died, and the world is exhausted by war. But soon a new horror is sweeping the world, a terrifying virus that will kill more than fifty million people – the Spanish flu. Using dramatic reconstruction and eyewitness testimony from doctors, soldiers, civilians and politicians, this one-off special brings to life the onslaught of the disease, the horrors of those who lived through it and the efforts of the pioneering scientists desperately looking for the cure. The film also asks whether, a century later, the lessons learnt in 1918 might help us fight a future global flu pandemic. [Read more…]

BBC – Our World 2019 Sudans Bloody Uprising 720p HDTV

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BBC – Our World 2019 Sudans Bloody Uprising 720p HDTV
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In December 2018, the people of Sudan rose up against the thirty-year dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir. He stood down in April, but his supporters remain in control and in June they launched a vicious attack on unarmed protestors leaving over a hundred dead and scores raped and beaten. Namak Khoshnaw follows a young Sudanese doctor, who took part in the protests, as she celebrates the uprising’s success only to watch it collapse in the face of terrifying violence. [Read more…]

BBC – Charley Pride – I’m Just Me 720p HDTV

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BBC – Charley Pride – I’m Just Me 720p HDTV
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Traces the improbable journey of Charley Pride, from his humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son on a cotton farm in segregated Sledge, Mississippi to his career as a black American League baseball player and his meteoric rise as a trailblazing country music superstar.
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Classic Cellists at the BBC 720p HDTV

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Classic Cellists at the BBC 720p HDTV
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Julian Lloyd Webber takes an extraordinary musical journey through the BBC archives from the 1950s to the present to celebrate the world of the cello through some of its greatest interpreters. From dazzling performances by legendary masters such as Paul Tortelier, Jacqueline du Pre and Mstislav Rostropovich to some of today’s leading interpreters including Yo Yo Ma, Steven Isserlis and Mischa Maisky, Julian gives us a cellist’s perspective on an extraordinary virtuoso tradition. [Read more…]