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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…]

NHK Train Cruise 2017 Along the Coast of the Seto Inland Sea 720p HDTV

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NHK Train Cruise 2017 Along the Coast of the Seto Inland Sea 720p HDTV
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Located in western Japan, the Seto Inland Sea is home to about 700 islands. We travel from Okayama Prefecture to Hiroshima Prefecture along the coast. The La Malle de Bois train is perfect for tourists with free Wi-Fi and outlets, while the Setouchi Marine View’s huge windows allow for amazing views of the ocean. While taking in the beautiful sights, we stop at Kurashiki, Onomichi, Takehara, Kure, and finally Hiroshima, enjoying all that they have to offer. [Read more…]

NHK Train Cruise 2016 The Cities Mountains and Seas of Osaka and Wakayama 720p HDTV

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NHK Train Cruise 2016 The Cities Mountains and Seas of Osaka and Wakayama 720p HDTV
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We start at Kansai International Airport. In the metropolis of Osaka Prefecture, we ride the futuristic “rapi:t” that resembles something out of a sci-fi movie, enjoy a bite at a local eatery, and travel by the latest streetcar through the suburbs. In Wakayama Prefecture, we journey through rugged terrain to Mt. Koya, 800m in altitude. Here we forget everyday and experience Buddhist monastic life. Then we take local trains down toward the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, we discover a little train that hauls the local mikan harvest through mountainside orchards near the coast. We also meet an old fishing family and a feline stationmaster. Enjoy a journey to the city, mountain, and sea in Osaka and Wakayama. [Read more…]

NHK – Breakthrough: Fixing a Broken Heart (2019) 1080p HDTV

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NHK – Breakthrough: Fixing a Broken Heart (2019) 1080p HDTV
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Breakthrough: Fixing A Broken Heart
Heart disease is the number one cause of deaths worldwide, but there are researchers frantically working to change that. Meet the people inventing the future of cardiac health, from new ways of imaging the body, to the possibility of 3D printing a functioning heart. [Read more…]

Disribber Films – As We Forgive REDO (2010) 1080p HDTV

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Disribber Films – As We Forgive: REDO (2010) 1080p HDTV
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As We Forgive: REDO
Could you forgive a person who murdered your family? This is the question faced by two Rwandan women coming face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. Without the hope of full justice, Rwanda has turned to a new solution: Reconciliation. [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…]