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BBC Storyville – The Night Notre-Dame Burned (2020)
English | Size: 1.05 GB
Category: Tutorial
Tells the dramatic story of the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral on 15th April 2019. Blow by blow, it follows the team of brave firefighters – from the men and women on the frontline to the brigade chief – as they face the epic responsibility of saving one of the city’s most emblematic and much-loved symbols from burning to the ground. [Read more…]
BBC Storyville – Pepe the Frog: Feels Good Man (2020)
English | Size: 1.14 GB
Category: Tutorial
Pepe the Frog started life in 2005 as a cute cartoon character in Boy’s Club, an American indie comic on Myspace. Today, he is known as an international hate symbol after being hijacked by the alt-right. Pepe the Frog: Feels Good Man follows Pepe’s creator, artist Matt Furie, as he fights to bring back his lovable comic-book character from the dark forces who stole him. [Read more…]
BBC Storyville Global – An Army of Sons (2020)
English | Size: 767 MB
Category: Documentary
Syrian film-maker Talal Derki returns to his homeland, where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His award-winning film provides a very rare insight into what it means to grow up with a father whose only dream is to establish an Islamic caliphate, capturing the chilling moment when childhood dies and jihadism is born. [Read more…]
BBC Storyville – The Mole: Infiltrating North Korea (2020)
English | Size: 1.40 GB
Category: Documentary
In 2010, Danish director Mads Brugger received an email from a stranger who had seen a documentary he had made about North Korea. He asked if Mads would be interested in making a new film about his quest to become a member of his local North Korean ‘friendship’ association in Denmark to enable him to travel to Pyongyang undercover. There are Korean Friendship Associations (KFA) in countries around the world, and their members, bizarrely, are devoted to the glorification of the world’s last totalitarian communist dictatorship. [Read more…]
BBC Storyville Global – Undercover in the Alt-Right (2020)
English | Size: 1.05 GB
Category: Tutorial
Over the course of a year, researcher Patrik Hermansson went deep undercover, as Swedish student Erik Hellberg, at the heart of the alt-right. He infiltrated some of the most notorious far-right networks in the US and the UK, extracting damning information that runs all of the way to the highest level of authority in the US. And he caught it all on hidden camera. [Read more…]
BBC Storyville Global – Cuban Dreams (2020)
English | Size: 613 MB
Category: Documentary
In a tiny, remote Cuban fishing village, Mariela, a mother of four young children, longs for a better life. The families in her village are utterly dependent on the day’s catch, which changes with the tide. The shops are empty, school is repeatedly shut down due to a lack of resources, and basic transportation is non-existent. With the relationship between the US and Cuba in flux, Mariela, like many Cubans, is afraid that her only chance to escape to the US will soon close, and is willing to risk her life to chase the American Dream. [Read more…]
BBC Storyville – The Queen of Africa: The Miriam Makeba Story (2012)
English | Size: 1.45 GB
Category: Documentary
Looks at the life of South African singer and civil rights activist Miriam Makeba. Forced into a life of exile for exposing the harsh realities of apartheid, Makeba was the first African musician to win international stardom. [Read more…]
BBC Storyville – Avicii: True Stories (2020)
English | Size: 1.21 GB
Category: Documentary
In 2006, Tim Bergling was just a regular teenager living in a small apartment in Stockholm, Sweden. Before his tragic death at the age of 28, he became one of the world’s foremost DJs, regularly headlining some of music’s biggest events and collaborating with superstars. [Read more…]
BBC Storyville – Dolce Vita Africana (2008)
English | Size: 725 MB
Category: Documentary
Documentary about celebrated Malian photographer Malick Sidibe, whose iconic images of his country from the late 1950s through to the 1970s captured the carefree spirit of his generation asserting their freedom after independence, up until an Islamic coup ushered in years of military dictatorship. The filmmakers travel to Malick Sidibe’s studio in Bamako to witness him at work and meet many of the subjects of his earlier photographs, whose personal stories also tell the history of Mali. [Read more…]
BBC Storyville – The Trials of Oppenheimer (2009)
English | Size: 1.17 GB
Category: Documentary
J Robert Oppenheimer was one of the most celebrated scientists of his generation. Shy, arrogant and brilliant, he is best known as the man that led the Manhattan Project to spectacular success. [Read more…]