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BBC Storyville – Tiananmen The People V the Party (2019) 720p HDTV

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BBC Storyville – Tiananmen: The People V the Party (2019) 720p HDTV
English | Size: 1.28 GB
Category: Documentary


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On June 4th, 1989 the world’s biggest, longest, and most famous pro-democracy demonstration was brought to a tragic end. The images from those final bloody days remain potent and the death toll is still disputed. In Tiananmen: The People V the Party, eyewitness accounts and leaked secret documents provide a deeper understanding of how the events of those seven weeks unfolded in the Square and behind the scenes, changing the course of Chinese history. [Read more…]

BBC Storyville – The Raft (2019)

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BBC Storyville – The Raft (2019)
English | Size: 1.66 GB
Category: Documentary


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In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment studying the sociology of violence, aggression and sexual attraction in human behaviour.

Although the project became known in the press as ‘The Sex Raft’, nobody expected what ultimately took place on that three-month journey.
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BBC Storyville 2019 Brexit Behind Closed Doors 720p HDTV x264 AAC

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BBC Storyville 2019 Brexit Behind Closed Doors 720p HDTV x264 AAC
English | Size: 1.12 GB
Category: Documentary


The gripping untold story of the Brexit negotiations… from the other side. For two years, Belgian film-maker, Lode Desmet, has had exclusive access to the Brexit co ordinator of the European parliament, Guy Verhofstadt, and his close knit team. This revelatory fly-on-the-wall film captures the off-the-record conversations and arguments of the European negotiators as they devise their strategy for dealing with the British.
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BBC Storyville – A German Life Goebbels’ Secretary Remembers (2019)

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BBC Storyville – A German Life: Goebbels’ Secretary Remembers (2019)
English | Size: 1.52 GB
Category: Documentary


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The extraordinary story of a woman living through traumatic times raises profound questions about the moral choices and personal sacrifices that one is faced with when confronted by evil. Reflecting back on her life, Brunhilde Pomsel makes it clear that the dangers that led to the rise of fascism have not been overcome. ‘So I joined the party,’ she recalls. ‘Why shouldn’t I? Everyone was doing it.’
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BBC Storyville – Pervert Park (2019)

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BBC Storyville – Pervert Park (2019)
English | Size: 1.10 GB
Category: Documentaries


Pervert Park is a film about the people no-one wants as a neighbour. It follows the everyday lives of sex offenders, living in a trailer-park community and struggling to reintegrate into society. The film-makers deep access allows us to get inside the minds and pasts of some of the residents and to gain a deeper understanding of the devastating ongoing cycle of sex crimes and the lives it destroys. [Read more…]

BBC Storyville – The Internet’s Dirtiest Secrets The Cleaners (2019)

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BBC Storyville – The Internet’s Dirtiest Secrets: The Cleaners (2019)
English | Size: 998 MB
Category: Documentary


7,000 miles from Silicon Valley in downtown Manila, a secret team of content moderators have a target of 25,000 Facebook, Google and Twitter posts to delete each day. Trawling through the world’s most violent, disturbing and highly contentious online material – in the form of terrorist videos, child pornography, self-harm material and political propaganda – ‘the cleaners’ are individually responsible for deciding what stays online and what gets removed. This film explores the hidden and complex world of digital content moderation where undesirable material is ‘cleaned’ from the internet by a hidden army of nameless people. [Read more…]

Storyville – Game Over, Kasparov and the Machine (23 January 2004) [TVRip (DivX)]

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Storyville – Game Over, Kasparov and the Machine (23 January 2004) [TVRip (DivX)]
English | Size: 549.11 MB
Category: Computer Science


Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997 he played a chess match against IBM’s computer Deep Blue. Kasparov lost the match. This film shows the match and the events surrounding it from Kasparov’s perspective. It delves into the psychological aspects of the game, paranoia surrounding it and suspicions that have arisen around IBM’s true tactics. It consists of interviews with Kasparov, his manager, chess experts, and members of the IBM Deep Blue team, as well as original footage of the match itself. [Read more…]