BBC – Miriams Dead Good Adventure 720p HDTV
English | Size: 1.47 GB
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Miriam Margolyes explores mortality, visiting a home for dementia patients and meeting a scientist in the US who claims that technology will soon provide a cure for the ageing process. She attends a festival in California for people determined to prolong their lives by any means, and discovers that laughter may help people to live longer and stay healthier. [Read more…]
BBC – True North 2019 Hell or High Water 720p HDTV
BBC – True North 2019 Hell or High Water 720p HDTV
English | Size: 693 MB
Category: Documentary
The inspirational story of two sisters who face their own mortality. Sixty-year-old Shirley sets out on an epic journey to row 3,000 miles unsupported across the Atlantic Ocean while her sister, Evelyn, battles a rare incurable cancer back home in Northern Ireland. [Read more…]
BBC – Undercover with the Clerics Iraqs Secret Sex Trade 720p HDTV
BBC – Undercover with the Clerics Iraqs Secret Sex Trade 720p HDTV
English | Size: 834 MB
Category: Documentary
Nawal Al-Maghafi exposes a secret world of sexual exploitation in Iraq. Some Shia clerics are using a controversial practice called ‘pleasure marriage’ to groom vulnerable girls and young women and pimp them out. [Read more…]
PBS – NOVA Why Bridges Collapse (2019) 1080p HDTV
PBS – NOVA: Why Bridges Collapse (2019) 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 1.96 GB
Category: Tutorial
NOVA: Why Bridges Collapse
Can new engineering techniques help prevent deadly bridge collapses?
In 2018, Italy’s Morandi Bridge collapsed, tragically killing 43 people. For 50 years, the iconic bridge had withstood the elements-and stress from ever-increasing traffic. What went wrong that fateful day? And how can new engineering technology protect bridge infrastructure to prevent such tragic failures in the future? Through eyewitness testimony, expert interviews, and dramatic archival footage, NOVA investigates the Morandi disaster and other deadly bridge collapses. [Read more…]
Smithsonian Ch. – A-Bombs Over Nevada 1080p HDTV
Smithsonian Ch. – A-Bombs Over Nevada 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 1.65 GB
Category: Documentary
A- Bombs Over Nevada
The dropping of “Fat Man” and “Little Boy” on Japan marked the end of World War II and the dawn of the Atomic Age. The race against the Soviet Union to build a bigger, better bomb was on. The U.S. put their new nukes to the test on a desolate stretch of desert just 65 miles away from Las Vegas, and people traveled from all over the country to witness the detonations. This is the story of the nation’s grand atomic experiment and the bizarre atomic subculture that spawned beauty queens, new hairdos, and radioactive superheroes. [Read more…]
BBC – Storyville – Inside Lehman Brothers The Whistleblowers (2019) 720p HDTV
BBC – Storyville – Inside Lehman Brothers: The Whistleblowers (2019) 720p HDTV
English | Size: 789 MB
Category: Documentary
In the autumn of 2007, Matthew Lee, a worried accounting executive at Lehman Brothers, began to notice serious financial irregularities in the company’s practices. When he refused to approve tens of billions of dollars’ worth of suspicious transactions, he was fired. [Read more…]
BBC – Storyville 2019 The PM the Playboy and the Wolf of Wall Street 720p HDTV
BBC – Storyville 2019 The PM the Playboy and the Wolf of Wall Street 720p HDTV
English | Size: 1.48 GB
Category: Documentary
A Malaysian wealth fund is robbed of US$3.5 billion. It is the world’s biggest white-collar heist involving government corruption at the highest level, an abuse of power and international money laundering. [Read more…]
BBC – Hidden History The Lost Portraits of Bradford 1080p HDTV
BBC – Hidden History The Lost Portraits of Bradford 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 1.25 GB
Category: Tutorial
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Thirty years ago, thousands of portraits from a small studio in Bradford were saved from a skip. They form a unique collection of photographs that records the changing face of a British industrial city in the middle of the 20th century. Many of the people in the portraits were new arrivals from the Asian subcontinent, eastern Europe and the Caribbean, attracted by the offer of work in wool mills. The names of these people are a mystery – only their faces survive. [Read more…]
Channel 4 – For Sama (2019) 720p HDTV
Channel 4 – For Sama (2019) 720p HDTV
English | Size: 1.33 GB
Category: Documentary
Documentary capturing one woman’s experiences working in a hospital in a Syrian war zone, while also raising a daughter as well as becoming involved in the uprising against the Assad regime. The film captures her and her husband’s efforts to create and run a series of makeshift hospitals in the midst of a bombing campaign by the Russian air force over the course of five years. [Read more…]
BBC – Marc Bolan Cosmic Dancer 720p HDTV
BBC – Marc Bolan Cosmic Dancer 720p HDTV
English | Size: 1013 MB
Category: Documentary
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This intimate biography, narrated in Marc Bolan’s own words, traces his remarkable journey from Hackney’s ‘king of the mods’ to Tyrannosaurus Rex, as he evolved into the artist known as ‘the hippie with a knife up his sleeve’.
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