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BBC Natural World – Florida America’s Animal Paradise (2019)

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BBC Natural World – Florida: America’s Animal Paradise (2019)
English | Size: 1.44 GB
Category: Tutorial

Florida is famous for its beaches, blue water and year round sun – but it also has a surprising wild side. It is home to pine forests, coral reefs and the famous Everglades wetland, the largest sub-tropical wilderness in the US. Here, manatees swim in crystal clear rivers, baby alligators practice their hunting skills and miniature deer roam free. Every year, this state faces the full forces of nature – from wildfires to flooding and powerful hurricanes. And today, a growing human population and a cast of animal invaders are threatening this wild paradise. With the help of pioneering scientists, will Florida’s wildlife continue to weather the storm? [Read more…]

BBC – Ronnie Scott and his World Famous Jazz Club (2020)

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BBC – Ronnie Scott and his World Famous Jazz Club (2020)
English | Size: 3.57 GB
Category: Documentary

Celebrates the legacy of Ronnie Scott and his world-famous jazz club. Featuring previously unseen and unheard performances as well as interviews with some of the most iconic figures in music, the film explores the club’s 60-year history and shines a light on the uncompromising men and women who both built it and who took to its stage. [Read more…]

CH4 Unreported World – Death in the Alps (2020)

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CH4 Unreported World – Death in the Alps (2020)
English | Size: 434 MB
Category: Tutorial

Adnan Sarwar follows the trail of migrants dicing with death as they attempt to cross the frozen Alpine peaks marking the border between Italy and France. Braving altitudes of up to 2,500 metres and temperatures as low as minus 20, many have died in their attempt to seek safety, having been denied asylum in Italy or threatened with deportation back to the countries from which they fled. [Read more…]

CH4 Unreported World – Nirvana for Sale (2020)

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CH4 Unreported World – Nirvana for Sale (2020)
English | Size: 536 MB
Category: Documentary

Marcel Theroux reports from Thailand on the controversial Dhammakaya movement, which has millions of followers around the world. Dhammakaya claims its a force for good – updating Buddhism for the modern world, but critics say it’s a money-obsessed cult. The movement believes in reincarnation and there’s a big focus on making donations to pave the way to Nirvana, with offering boxes and cashpoints enabling the faithful to donate. Its founder, Abbot Dhammajayo, is in hiding following allegations that the sect has laundered ?25million of stolen money, which he denies. [Read more…]

CH4 Unreported World – Trump’s Housewives (2020)

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CH4 Unreported World – Trump’s Housewives (2020)
English | Size: 532 MB
Category: Documentary

As Donald Trump fights for re-election, his campaign is particularly targeting white women voters. Filmed prior to the coronavirus pandemic and the killing of George Floyd, Karishma Vyas travels to California to meet the ‘TradWives’, a growing movement of US women who idolise Donald Trump, and have put him at the heart of their anti-feminist, traditional family values as they work to get him re-elected. This is despite the fact that women have often borne the brunt of the President’s political and personal barbs. [Read more…]

CH4 Unreported World – Swarm Chasers (2020)

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CH4 Unreported World – Swarm Chasers (2020)
English | Size: 695 MB
Category: Documentary

Sahar Zand reports on the adverse impact of locusts across Kenya and neighbouring countries, which are devouring crops and threatening millions with starvation. Filmed before the UK went into lockdown, she visits Kenya, on the trail of immense swarms of the insects – the biggest for 70 years. In a country in which agriculture provides a livelihood for more than 80 per cent of the population and where over a million people live on the edge of hunger, even a small swarm can eat the same amount of food in a day as 35,000 people, threatening millions with starvation and economic collapse. [Read more…]