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PBS – Secrets of the Dead: Gangster’s Gold (2020)
English | Size: 2.57 GB
Category: Tutorial
Join three groups of treasure hunters, armed with modern technology and newly uncovered clues, as they set out to find the lost treasure of notorious Prohibition-era gangster Dutch Schultz and solve an 85-year-old mystery. [Read more…]
PBS – NOVA: Touching the Asteroid (2020)
English | Size: 2.53 GB
Category: Documentary
In October 2020, a NASA spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx attempts to reach out and grab a piece of an asteroid named Bennu to bring it back to Earth. The OSIRIS-REx team has just three chances to extend its spacecraft’s specialized arm, touch down for five seconds, and collect material from the surface of Bennu. But if they can pull it off, scientists could gain great insight into Earth’s own origins-and even learn to defend against rogue asteroids that may one day threaten our planet. [Read more…]
PBS – NOVA: Can We Cool the Planet (2020)
English | Size: 1.72 GB
Category: Documentary
NOVA Can We Cool the Planet
As global temperatures rise, scientists are exploring solutions from planting trees to sucking carbon out of the air to geoengineering. But would they work? And what are the risks of engineering Earth’s climate? [Read more…]
PBS – Krakatoa: HD (2005)
English | Size: 2.12 GB
Category: Tutorial
When the volcano on the island of Krakatoa erupted in August 1883 it was the greatest disaster in recorded history.
On the morning of August 27, 1883, the rumbling volcano of Krakatoa stood more than 6,000 feet high, with a diameter of approximately 10 miles. Later that day, this giant cone exploded so violently it was literally blown away. The effects of the volcanic explosion caused tidal wave more than 140 feet high; one ship was carried more than two miles inland. Hail-sized stones fell as far as 100 miles away, and the city of Jakarta fell into total darkness. For many of the area’s inhabitants, Armageddon had arrived. Over 36,000 people were killed immediately, and countries all over the globe were affected by the volcano’s devastating after-effects. [Read more…]
PBS POV – Mugabe and the White African (2009)
English | Size: 1.99 GB
Category: Documentary
"I’m still the Hitler of the times. This Hitler has only one objective; justice for his people, sovereignty for his people. If that is Hitler, right… then let me be a Hitler ten fold." — Robert Mugabe
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PBS – Particle Fever (2013)
English | Size: 3.22 GB
Category: Documentary
A Documentary Film by Mark Levinson and David Kaplan, For the first time, a film gives audiences a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happens. Particle Fever follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of human innovation. [Read more…]
PBS American Experience – The Great Famine (2011)
English | Size: 1.46 GB
Category: Tutorial
The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine is a documentary about the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Five million Russians died. Half a world away, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by Herbert Hoover, director of the American Relief Administration known as the ARA. [Read more…]
BBC-PBS – Lucy Worsleys: Royal Photo Album (2020)
English | Size: 1.78 GB
Category: Documentary
Explore how the royal family has shaped their image with photography, from Queen Victoria to Princess Diana to Prince Harry. From official portraits to tabloid snapshots, the camera has been the Crown’s confidante, messenger – and nemesis. [Read more…]
PBS – Frontline: Plastic Wars (2020)
English | Size: 1.77 GB
Category: Documentary
With the plastic industry expanding like never before, and the crisis of ocean pollution growing, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the fight over the future of plastics. [Read more…]
PBS – NOVA: Rise of the Mammals (2019)
English | Size: 1.74 GB
Category: Documentary
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs in a fiery global catastrophe. But we know little about how their successors, the mammals, recovered and took over the world. Now, hidden inside ordinary-looking rocks, an astonishing trove of fossils reveals a dramatic new picture of how rat-sized creatures ballooned in size and began to evolve into the vast array of species. [Read more…]