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Movie: True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality ( 2019 )
A look at how Alabama attorney Bryan Stevenson struggles to create more fairness in the legal system.
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TV Show: The Wonder List with Bill Weir ( 2015 )
The Wonder List with Bill Weir, hosted by CNN's Bill Weir and filmmaker Philip Bloom, tell the stories of extraordinary people, places, cultures and creatures at a crossroads.
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TV Show: Secrets in the Dust ( 2011 )
Through its ability to make us dream and marvel at the achievements of the past, archaeology has evolved from an inconspicuous discipline based on ruins and fragments into one of the most attention-grabbing fields of scientific study today. This series presents not only some of the most groundbreaking archaeological discoveries, but also the turbulent history of archaeology itself, with its adventurers and grave robbers, its embittered rivals and passionate visionaries.
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TV Show: Underwater Wonders of the National Parks
The US National Parks have some of the most iconic landscapes in the U.S. But there is also an underwater side to explore!
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Movie: Wolfman's Got Nards ( 2018 )
This documentary explores the power of cult film told through the lens of The Monster Squad (1987) and the impact it has on fans, cast and crew, and the industry.
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TV Show: Canada Over the Edge ( 2012 )
This series explores the features that define Canada: the most expansive coastline in the world and the world's longest undefended border. It's a never-before-seen view of Canada, rising up and bearing witness to our nation's diversity and beauty. The meeting place of the ocean and land is birthplace of this country's history and the frontline of climate change.
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Movie: Ed Gein ( 2000 )
The story of Ed Gein, who dug up the corpses of over a dozen women and made things out of their remains before finally shooting two people to death and butchering their bodies like beef sides.
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TV Show: Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age ( 1999 )
Fred Dibnah has always had a passion for Britain's industrial past and its mechanical relics. Here he recounts its history, bringing to life landmark events from the eighteenth century up to the early twentieth century in his typically anecdotal and engaging manner.
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Movie: Murder on a Sunday Morning ( 2003 )
Oscar-winning documentary that documents a murder trial in which a 15-year-old African-American is wrongfully accused of a 2000 murder in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Movie: A Haunting in Georgia ( 2002 )
Documentary that inspired "A Haunting in Conneticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia".
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TV Show: The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain ( 2014 )
The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain will present the revealing and surprising story of Britain in the reigns of George I and George II (1714-60) – the age of the ‘German Georges'. In 1714, Britain imported a new German royal family from Hanover, headed by Georg Ludwig (aka George I) - an uncharismatic, middle-aged man with a limited grasp of English. Lucy Worsley will reveal how this unlikely new dynasty secured the throne – and how they kept it. An intimate and close-up portrait of these German kings of Britain, the series will follow George I, his son George II, and their feuding family as they slowly established themselves in their adopted kingdom - despite ongoing threats from invading Jacobites and a lukewarm initial response from the British public.
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TV Show: If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home ( 2011 )
Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, takes us through 800 years of domestic history by exploring the British home through four rooms, meeting experts and historians on the way.
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TV Show: Britain's Biggest Adventures with Bear Grylls ( 2015 )
In this brand-new three-part series for ITV, adventurer Bear Grylls heads out on an epic journey of discovery across England, Scotland and Wales to experience the British Isles at their most spectacular. You don't always have to travel to the ends of the earth to experience incredible adventures and mind-blowing landscapes. Sometimes the best things are found right here, at home, in Great Britain.
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TV Show: Lucy Worsley's Nights at the Opera ( 2017 )
For centuries in western culture, opera has been the greatest show on earth. Historian Lucy Worsley explores how history and opera go hand in hand. She visits the great European cities where some of the most famous operas were written, tells the stories of the colourful characters who composed them, and shows how they reflected the turbulent times they were composed in and the lives, hopes and fears of the people who lived in them. Whilst Lucy visits the cities and European opera houses, Antonio Pappano, music director of London's Royal Opera, helps us understand some of those operas' greatest musical moments.
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TV Show: Europe's Last Warrior Kings ( 2016 )
Dupe of https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/25354/1066-a-year-to-conquer-england
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Movie: Jago: A Life Underwater ( 2017 )
Documentary about Rohani, an 80-year-old hunter who dives like a fish on a single breath, descending to great depths for several minutes. Set against the spectacular backdrop of the Togian Islands in Indonesia where he grew up, this award-winning film recreates events that capture the extraordinary turning points in his life, as a hunter and as a man.
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Movie: In Pursuit of Silence ( 2017 )
A film about our relationship with silence and the impact of noise on our lives.
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Movie: I Will Be Murdered ( 2013 )
The fascinating story of Rodrigo Rosenberg, a Guatemalan lawyer who predicted his own death on YouTube, and the subsequent investigation that reached an unbelievable conclusion.
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Movie: The True Story of the Mary Celeste ( 2007 )
On the 5th of December 1872, the American-registered brigantine, the Mary Celeste, was found drifting in the Atlantic. The ship was in good condition. Its cargo was intact. However the 10 people on board were missing without trace. An official inquiry in Gibraltar failed to find the cause of their disappearance and since then, rumour, wild speculation and many theories have been proposed. In the 135 years that have passed, the mystery of this "ghost ship" has never been solved - until now. This is not another re-telling of this famous story or another theory which cannot be proved. A four-year investigation for this programme has turned up new information including a transcript of the ship's lost log. Now, vital new clues have enabled an international team of experts to finally solve what is widely regarded as the greatest mystery of the sea. The first accurate model ever created of the Mary Celeste has been used to create stunning CGI scenarios by RED VISION, the UK-based award-winning graphics studio. Interviews with members of the families of the American captain and the German seamen who were accused of murdering those on the Mary Celeste. Rare archive and the personal possessions of those on board which have never been seen outside the families of those whose lives were touched by this event. Filmed in full HD at the locations where this remarkable story unfolds: The Azores, The US, Germany, Gibraltar and the UK.
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Movie: Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau ( 2015 )
A behind the scenes chronicle of how clash of vision, bad creative decisions, lack of interest and really bad weather plagued the disastrous production of the infamous The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996).
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TV Show: Hitler's Last Year ( 2015 )
Tells the story of the last year of the war in Europe, from the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944 to the dual German surrender, first in Reims then Berlin, in May 1945. Eleven months of unprecedented combat. The hopes of the Allied landings, the liberation of Paris, the battle of the Ardennes, the massive bombing campaigns over Germany, the Soviet offensives, the libera- tion of the concentration camps, Hitler's self-destructive folly, the battle for Berlin, and the final surrender. This series of major events contributes to making a powerful, intense and epic film.
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Movie: Adolf Eichmann ( 2008 )
Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli police officer, of his past as the architect of Hitler's plan for the fFnal Solution. Captured by intelligence operatives in Argentina, 15 years after World War II, Eichmann (Kretschmann), the world's most wanted man, must be broken down and the truth unveiled. As the world waits, 2 men must confront each other in a battle of wills- the result of which will change a nation forever.
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TV Show: Dancing Cheek to Cheek: An Intimate History of Dance ( 2014 )
Lucy Worsley and Len Goodman take to the floor to reveal the untold story of British Dance. Over three episodes, they'll show how Britain's favourite popular dances from over the centuries offer a fascinating window into British society and our relationships with one another.
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Movie: Buried Truth of the Maya ( 2019 )
Maya legend tells us that there is a hidden underground cave below Chichen Itza, now high tech archaeologists are here to find the buried truth.
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Movie: The Botany of Desire ( 2009 )
Michael Pollan, a professor of journalism and a student of food, presents the history of four plants, each of which found a way to make itself essential to humans, thus ensuring widespread propagation. Apples, for sweetness; tulips, for beauty; marijuana, for pleasure; and, potatoes, for sustenance. Each has a story of discovery and adaptation; each has a symbiotic re...Read all
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TV Show: Dinosaur Britain ( 2015 )
Dinosaur Britain explores the amazing story of how dinosaurs one roamed Great Britain. The show will reveal how these creatures hunted, what they ate and how they died from the evidence revealed in their bones. Presenter Ellie Harrison and palaeontologists Dean Lomax attempt to bring dinosaurs back to life in Britain.
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Movie: Florida Man ( 2015 )
A love letter to the weird and wonderful people of the Sunshine State.
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Movie: The Trials of Darryl Hunt ( 2006 )
"The Trials of Darryl Hunt" is a feature documentary about a brutal rape/murder case and a wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, who spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Both a social justice story and a personally driven narrative, the film chronicles this capital case from 1984 through 2004. With exclusive footage from two decades, the fi...Read all
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Movie: Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary ( 2017 )
This documentary is a detailed look into the making of Pet Sematary (1989).
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Movie: Escape from Room 18 ( 2017 )
John Daly, an ex-Neo Nazi, fled to Israel when his gang tried to kill him for being Jewish. An old Skinhead friend finds John 25 years later and suggests they visit concentration camps in an effort to make amends for their past.
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Movie: Too Macabre: The Making of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark ( 2018 )
This documentary fills in the backstories of the making of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988), as well as much of Cassandra Peterson's career. It also provides a lot of insight into the workings of Hollywood production.
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Movie: Oxyana ( 2013 )
The 'Hillbilly Heroin' epidemic that's slowly rotting the soul of rural America.
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Movie: Secrets of the Living Dolls ( 2014 )
A remarkable behind-the-scenes look at a hidden sub-culture: the secretive world of female masking where men transform themselves into dolls by squeezing into elaborate rubber second skins.
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Movie: Hated: GG Allin & the Murder Junkies ( 1993 )
Documentary about notorious punk rock performer GG Allin.
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Movie: Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story ( 2014 )
From PBS - Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story brings to life the story of a woman's extraordinary courage, tested in the crucible of Nazi-occupied Paris. With an American mother and Indian Muslim father, Noor Inayat Khan was an extremely unusual British agent, and her life spent growing up in a Sufi center of learning in Paris seemed an unlikely preparation for the dangerous work to come. Yet it was in this place of universal peace and contemplation that her remarkable courage was forged. In early 1943, Khan was recruited as a covert operative into Winston Churchill's Special Operations Executive (SOE). Churchill's orders: to "Set Europe ablaze". After the collapse and arrest of her entire network, Khan became the only surviving radio operator linking the British to the French Resistance in Paris, coordinating the airdrop of weapons, explosives, and agents and supporting the rescue of downed Allied fliers. Betrayed by a French collaborator after four months, Khan resisted brutal interrogation by the Gestapo, escaping twice--only to be recaptured and sent to Germany where, at last, she was executed at Dachau.
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Movie: Inside the Mind of Leonardo ( 2014 )
Inside the Mind of Leonardo is based on the artist's private journals dating from the Italian Renaissance. With more than 6,000 pages of handwritten notes and drawings, da Vinci's private journals are the most comprehensive documents that chronicle the work of the world's most renowned inventor, philosopher, painter, and genius. Never before has access been granted to capture these works in 3D HD format.
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Movie: Art of Darkness ( 2014 )
Art of Darkness is a feature documentary intimately profiling controversial painter and performance artist Bryan Lewis Saunders. Bryan is renowned for his commitment to producing a self portrait every day, which, to date, number well over 10,000. A complex individual with admitted psychopathic tendencies, Bryan narrates his dark, complex process and the experiences that have shaped him and how he uses art to help tame his inner demons. Bryan's famed 'drug series' of self portraits while under the influence of a variety of mind-altering substances, has made him an Internet sensation garnering a legion of loyal fans worldwide.
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Movie: Slavery by Another Name ( 2012 )
A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition.
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Movie: Big Fur ( 2020 )
World Champion taxidermist Ken Walker builds a life-sized Bigfoot, based on frames from an iconic 1967 movie, and unveils her at the 2015 World Taxidermy Championship. While Walker would love to win Best in Show, his real hope is that putting "Patty" on display will prompt some hunter to open his freezer and pull out the proof that Bigfoot is real. Instead, it's Walker's love life that gets thawed out.
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Movie: Hitler's Island Madness ( 2012 )
As soon as Hitler's forces occupied the Channel Islands in 1940 he ordered a series of fortifications to defend the only British territory he ever conquered. The problem was he never stopped - pouring men, concrete and weapons into the islands. By 1944 his officers talked of the Fuehrer's inselwahn - his 'island madness' and the Channel Islands had become the most fortified place on earth.
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TV Show: Roads Less Travelled: Atlantic Way ( 2018 )
Scotland's best-known outdoors man, Cameron McNeish, journeys up the western seaboard from the Mull of Kintyre to Mallaig. Travelling on foot, by bike, by pack-raft and with his beloved campervan, his journey takes him over 200 miles through some of our most impressive wild places. Along the way, he meets an artist, a storyteller and a ghillie. And most surprisingly of all he discovers how our ancestors created their music.
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Movie: Platoon: Brothers in Arms ( 2018 )
Charlie Sheen narrates, as cast and crew share their personal experiences making the Academy Award winning film, Platoon. This non-union, low budget, independent film was cast almost exclusively with young, unknown actors making their first film. Together they share their first hand accounts of the grueling boot camp, Oliver Stone's "unique" directing style, and the brutal filming conditions that together forged their eternal brotherhood.
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TV Show: Ancient Inventions of War, Sex and City Life ( 1998 )
Ancient Inventions of War, Sex and City Life was a BBC historical documentary series released in 1998. It was presented by ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones and looked at great inventions of the ancient world.
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Movie: Shawn Mendes: In Wonder ( 2020 )
A portrait of singer/songwriter Shawn Mendes' life, chronicling the past few years of his rise and journey.
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Movie: A Look Back at Howard the Duck ( 2009 )
A documentary about the making of Howard The Duck.
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Movie: The Broken Tower ( 2011 )
A biography of American poet Hart Crane who committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
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TV Show: Mutant Planet ( 2010 )
Mutant Planet is a breath-taking, blue-chip documentary series that explores the unusual, the unexpected... and the downright bizarre. This series reveals incredible habitats where nature has allowed mutant animals, extraordinary adaptations, and curious patterns of behaviour to flourish through the miracle of natural selection and the wonder of evolution.
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Movie: Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective ( 2011 )
A year in the making, Still Screaming is the definitive documentary on the making of the iconic Scream movies. Dive into the fascinating success story of the classic trilogy with on-set footage and photos, and dozens of brand new interviews with cast and crew from all the films including Wes Craven, Neve Campbell, Liev Schreiber, Henry Winkler, Matthew Lillard, Jamie ...Read all
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Movie: The Weather Underground ( 2003 )
The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
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Movie: I Escaped a Cult ( 2012 )
I Escaped a Cult talks to survivors of a polygamist breakaway Mormon sect (Warren Jeffs's FLDS) and a fundamentalist Christian community (Aggressive Christianity Missionary Training Corps). They talk about the abuse they suffered at the hands of the cult and the problems they had in leaving it.
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Movie: The Thread ( 2015 )
The document tells the story of the social media manhunt that took place in the wake of the Boston marathon bombing.
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TV Show: Apocalypse: Hitler ( 2011 )
Infamous for his crimes against humanity, Hitler's rise to power was unexpected and devastating. But how could a political party so intolerant gain so much power under one man? Using historical newly colourised and impactful footage, Apocalypse: Hitler is a two-part documentary which takes a remarkable look into the Nazis' ascent, exploring Hitler's path from mediocre student and failed artist to totalitarian dictator.
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Movie: 10 Buildings That Changed America ( 2013 )
10 Buildings That Changed America tells the stories of ten influential works of architecture, the people who imagined them, and the way these landmarks ushered in innovative cultural shifts throughout our society.
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Movie: Michael Lives: The Making of 'Halloween' ( 2008 )
A four hour documentary on the making of Rob Zombie's Halloween.
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Movie: Viking Apocalypse ( 2011 )
A road construction crew unearths an ancient mass grave of decapitated Viking men near Dorset, England. Archaeologists and forensic scientists examine the remains and present various theories about why the men were executed.
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TV Show: Dead End Express ( 2015 )
On the edge of the American frontier, a few brave men risk their lives delivering vital supplies to people living off the grid. From the dense woodlands of Montana's Flathead National Forest, through the isolated heart of Idaho's Hells Canyon, to the frozen wastelands of Alaska's high tundra, follow five rugged adventurers as they live and breath the high-stakes of hauling critical cargo into these unique tracts of wilderness. Always on the move, these deliverymen have been shaped by the great outdoors, and have learned the hard way how to tackle anything that Mother Nature throws in their path. Yet they all have one thing in common: there's no job too tough. And whether by bush plane, jet boat, snowmachine, dog-sled or pack horse, they'll overcome all obstacles and do whatever it takes to make their delivery.
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Movie: A Very British Witchcraft ( 2013 )
"We are an Old Craft Coven of the Hunting Path... which means we are activists in every sense... our purpose is to fight both magically and practically to protect the land, the animals that live on it, the environment, all sacred sites and any and all Pagans from attacks of any kind..." Nick Ridge is a Witch, Magister of the Cauldron of the Alta Calleach, and with his wife runs Dorset Wildlife Rescue. Both roles are very important to Nick, and he combines his love of nature and magick in his skill as a wort-cunner, or magical herbalist. In this DVD, Nick demonstrates traditional herblore, demonstrating how to make a dark poppet, genuine flying ointment, and various other pieces of herb lore.
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Movie: Expedition Everest ( 2020 )
Just inside Everest's notorious death zone, a team of climate scientists who specialize in extreme weather weigh their next move.
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Movie: Snow Animals ( 2019 )
Nature documentaries presenter Liz Bonnin shows the various tactics animals use to survive in some of the coldest places on Earth.
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TV Show: Nature Tech ( 2006 )
Why are blossoms never dirty and can we also make our cars that way? Why can geckos walk on the ceiling and can we use their tricks to create better adhesives? Why is the spider's web tougher than steel? Exciting new developments in computer technology, chemistry and physics are now enabling us to understand Nature's designs better than ever before. Scientists are not simply trying to copy nature - they are taking hints, extracting principles and applying winning designs of evolution in a new, human context.
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Movie: Pandas ( 2018 )
In the mountains of Sichuan, China, a researcher forms a bond with Qian Qian, a panda who is about to experience nature for the first time.
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Movie: Life After: Chernobyl ( 2016 )
Documentary explores the impact on animal life in the area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Planet by two scientists some 30 years after the worst nuclear accident in history.
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Movie: Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter ( 2001 )
Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter picks up where the blockbuster film and bestselling books leave off. This critically-acclaimed documentary explores the myths and legends that inhabit the real world of Harry Potter. Follow award-winning documentary filmmakers as they offer insights to witches, wizards, Greek Gods, Ancient Celts, ghosts, magical creatures, alchemy, and ancient spells. Extra Features: The Ghostly Visitors of Harry Potter; Harry Potter's Alchemical and Herbal World; In the Footsteps of Harry Potter; Harry Potter and the Holy Grail.
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Movie: Nina Hagen = Punk + Glory ( 1999 )
NinaHagen was born in East Berlin in 1955, migrated to the West in the mid-70's and became a New Wave Punk rock star in 1978, singing in a screechy growl that shaded into an operatic coloratura.
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Movie: The Ornament of the World ( 2019 )
Retracing an 800-year period in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians and Jews coexisted in a manner that led to the creation of great works of art, architecture, literature and music.
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Movie: Celestial ( 2012 )
Featuring some incredible imagery of the moon, Celestial brings forth lunar anomalies including glass domes over craters with buildings and structures underneath, six-mile-tall statues, even a tower that resembles the Eiffel tower.
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Movie: Twenty Two ( 2017 )
An estimated 200,000 Chinese women were forced into prostitution by the Japanese army during WWII. Only 22 of them remain today to speak out publicly. This documentary is not a film for political gains or narrow nationalistic purposes. For the director and the crew, each and every one of those elderly women is a brave and strong individual with similar yet distinctive experiences. This is a group that deserves to be known and correctly understood by more people and a history worth being preserved in a most accurate yet sensitive way. In the documentary, the current situation of those 22 elderly women will be presented in an impersonal way. There's no interrogation, sympathy, nor exaggeration in our film. You will hear them talk about their own experiences, and you will also learn about their perspectives on life, sufferings and happiness. Now all over 80 or 90 years old, those elderly ladies are at the very last stage of their life. This is probably the last chance for the public to actually see their situations and hear their own words while they are still alive. It should not be a history just written on pages.
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Movie: Bob Marley: Giant ( 2014 )
Dennis Morris, photographer for Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter Bob Marley during the 1970's, tells the stories behind many of his iconic images of the musician taken at concerts, backstage, and between shows.
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Movie: Survival of the Film Freaks ( 2018 )
"Survival of the Film Freaks is a documentary exploring the phenomenon of cult film in America and how it survives in the 21st Century. Through interviews and fan events, the documentary will trace decades of film fanaticism up to the present, where the 'digital age' has transformed the way we experience movies."
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Movie: Bones Brigade: An Autobiography ( 2012 )
When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too - as they evolved from insecure outsiders to the most influential athletes in the field.
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Movie: Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion ( 2003 )
Filmed during nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal, this film brings audiences to the long-forbidden "rooftop of the world"... from rarely-seen rituals in remote monasteries, to horse races with Khamba warriors; from brothels and slums in the holy city of Lhasa, to magnificent Himalayan peaks still traveled by nomadic yak caravans. The dark secrets of Tibet's recent past are chronicled through personal stories and interviews, and a collection of undercover and archival images. TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW LION is an epic story of courage and compassion.
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TV Show: Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History ( 2013 )
Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, explores how the physical and mental health of our past monarchs has shaped the history of the nation. From Henry VIII to Edward VIII's abdication in 1936, this three-part series re-introduces our past royals not just as powerful potentates, but as human beings, each with their own very personal problems of biology and psychology.
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Movie: All in This Tea ( 2008 )
During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He's a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama. Hoffman's mission is to find and bring to the U.S. the best hand picked and hand processed tea. This search takes him directly to farms and engages him with Chinese scientists, business people, and government officials: Hoffman wants tea grown organically without a factory, high-yield mentality. By 2004, Hoffman has seen success: there are farmers' collectives selling tea, ways to export "boutique tea" from China, and a growing Chinese appreciation for organic farming's best friend, the earthworm.
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Movie: Fantome Island ( 2011 )
In 1945, at the age of seven, a young Joe Eggmolesse was diagnosed with Leprosy. He was immediately removed from his family and home and transported under police escort over a thousand kilometres to be confined on an island for the treatment of the disease. For the next ten years, a leprosarium for Aboriginal people became his home. A lush tropical idyll off the north east coast of Australia, Fantome Island was the home to a close knit community of indigenous 'lepers' who made the most of their existence as people living on the fringes of the marginalised. Now as a 73 year old Joe reflects on his indelible Fantome years. His incredible, poignant story offers a profound insight into one of Australia's hidden histories.
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Movie: T. Rex Autopsy ( 2015 )
National Geographic is peeling back the skin to go deep inside one of the Earth's most mysterious creatures, combining biology with palaeontology to explore all its guts and glory. T-Rex Autopsy will literally go under the skin of a full-size T-Rex for the first time ever to reveal how the 65-million-year-old beast may have lived. The massive monster will be life- like inside and out, giving scientists the chance to touch it, smell it, scan it, X-ray it and cut it open from head to toe.
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Movie: The Cosmic Giggle ( 2012 )
An exploration of the human energy field and its effects on reality, perceived and otherwise. As human beings, we are naturally connected to a vast wealth of information in our environment, but due to social conditioning towards a fixated attention, this perception becomes veiled. This film aims to reveal how this process unfolds and provide keys for returning to a more primal and authentic experience of our lives.
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Movie: Escape From a Nazi Death Camp ( 2014 )
From PBS - The Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on October 14, 1943 the inmates fought back, in the biggest and most successful prison outbreak of the Second World War. Of the 600 inmates present on the day of the escape, 300 escaped. Around 50 survived the war and of that 50, only a handful are still alive. This is their last chance to reveal the true story of their escape.
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Movie: Secrets of Einstein's Brain ( 2015 )
The year 2015 marks the 60th anniversary of Albert Einstein's death and the disappearance of his brain, stolen by the doctor trusted to perform his autopsy. Scientists over the decades have examined this priceless specimen to try and determine what made this seemingly normal man change the face of science and define the word genius. This special dives deep into Einstein's life, his theories, and not just what we've learned about the human brain by studying his, but what we have yet to learn.
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Movie: Missing Pieces: The Curious Case of the Somerton Man ( 2018 )
Experts attempt to discover the identity of a man found dead on an Australian beach in 1948 that many suspect may have been a WWII spy. They further examine his connection to a nurse whose family believes was a Russian spy.
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Movie: Star Paws: The Rise of Superstar Pets ( 2014 )
Meet the professional pets that star in some of the world's favourite adverts.
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Movie: Things That Aren't Here Anymore ( 1995 )
A nostalgic look at Southern California's past, particularly things and places in and around Los Angeles which no longer exist.
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Movie: The Surgery Ship ( 2015 )
A team of volunteer doctors and nurses are on board a unique ship. Crammed with medical supplies and volunteer medics, this floating hospital sails to the poorest nations on earth. This year they sail for Guinea on the West African Coast. On arrival they will face the most severe of medical issues, not seen in other parts of the world. But the medical challenges are only half of the story. They will confront ethical decisions as they decide who will be helped and who will not. This is a searing, complex journey for the volunteer medics, as they deal with life and death cases - and balance the fates of these patients in their hands.
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Movie: The Dalai Lama: Scientist ( 2019 )
An uplifting and optimistic documentary about the Dalai Lama's meetings with scientists from around the world to find commonalities among Buddhist science and western science to promote health, understanding and compassion for all.
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TV Show: The Elegant Universe ( 2003 )
Brian Greene, a Columbia University physics professor and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe, hosts this fascinating exploration of string theory, beginning with an overview of general physics concepts. Greene then moves on to a straightforward and visually stimulating explanation of the more recent string theory that unites relativity and quantum mechanics.
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Movie: Dog Days: The Making of 'Cujo' ( 2007 )
Retrospective documentary on the making of Cujo (1983).
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TV Show: Secrets from the Asylum ( 2014 )
Secrets from the Asylum follows several celebrities as they try to find out why their ancestors had spent time within the asylum. The asylum was seen as a place of stigma and shame. However, asylums hoped to help people be restored to a first-class citizen to be able to live in the real world again. What had actually followed after leaving the asylum was a life-time of shame, guilt, secrets and lies.
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TV Show: Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant ( 2009 )
To mark the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession to the throne, Dr. David Starkey travels across Europe to understand the inner life of this feared English king.
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Movie: Bacchus Uncovered: Ancient God of Ecstasy ( 2018 )
Bacchus Uncovered: Ancient God of Ecstasy is a TV movie starring Bettany Hughes. Bettany Hughes examines the story of the god of wine, revelry, theatre and excess. She visits Jordan, Georgia, Greece and Britain to discover his...
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Movie: The Secret Life of the Rainforest ( 2012 )
Rainforests cover just six percent of Earth's surface yet contain almost half of the world's plants and animals. With a diversity of mammals, birds, and bugs unrivaled almost anywhere in the world, Panama's Barro Colorado Island is the perfect microcosm of nature. Every year, passionate and dedicated scientists gather to this oasis of life, scaling the treetops, from canopy to forest floor, in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the rainforest. Follow them as they explore how life thrives in one of the most complex habitats on Earth.
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Movie: Galileo: Fighting in the Dawn of Modern Science ( 2013 )
Galileo Galilei is one of the most renowned thinkers in the history of science and a highly emblematic figure of the 17th century. This was the era when modern science emerged. This documentary narrates the life of a man who turned his telescope towards the heavens and observed things that no one had seen before. His observations, experiments and mathematics paved a new method for the study of nature. However, the basic argument of this documentary is that Galileo succeeded not only because of his philosophical and mathematical achievements, but also because of his carefully chosen alliances. One of the defining characteristics of Florentine society throughout the centuries was a deeply-rooted system of patronage networks. Galileo benefited from these networks as he secured the patronage of Cosimo II de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscan, and constructed for himself a novel social and professional identity. As his fame and recognition grew, Galileo had intense confrontations with the philosophers in matters such as buoyancy, motion, free fall and some of his observations (the sun spots). The Aristotelian philosophers argued that all these were matters of philosophy, not mathematics. They never accepted Galileo as a natural philosopher because philosophers held a higher professional position than mathematicians. In the face of Galileo they saw a mathematician who tried to remove their philosophical status, exploiting the professional benefits arising from the title that Cosimo gave him. Through these confrontations and political pressure the Aristotelians forced the Catholic Church to judge the work of Galileo. The trial and conviction of Galileo was the outcome of exhausting social and political battles and not the result of an opposition between science and religion. The devout Catholic Galileo never wanted to replace the Bible and the Scriptures with a new science (after all, science did not exist at that time). However, Galileo was forced to kneel inside the church of Maria Sopra Minerva and repudiate the work and views of a lifetime. This documentary tells the story of a man who never retreated and had the persistence and courage to vindicate his intellectual identity.
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TV Show: Secrets from the Sky ( 2014 )
The country's most historic landmarks and glorious landscapes are explored from a bird's eye view in Secrets from the Sky.Britain's landscape is dotted with historical monuments such as Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, Stonehenge, Maiden Castle, Sutton Hoo, The Antonine Wall and Old Sarum in Wiltshire. The series investigates these monuments, revealing a new insight into our nation's story and showing Britain's stunning landscapes through fantastic aerial views.By looking down on these sites from above, the clues on the ground can be linked together to uncover the full story locked in the landscape. The lumps and bumps in the ground can take on a different meaning when viewed from above.