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Britains Secret Islands volume 4
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English
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Visit the Isles of Scilly, strewn with shipwrecks, ancient ruins and dramatic fortifications.
6002) Gorbachev. Heaven
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Russian
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An interview with former USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the most influential figures of the last century, whose rule heralded the end of the Soviet Union.
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Captured over five days at Battersea Arts Centre and on location in London This Much I Know To Be True captures Nick Cave & Warren Ellis as they ready songs from their last two studio albums for the stage. In this document of their first ever performances of these albums, filmed in spring 2021 ahead of their UK tour, we see the two, accompanied by singers and string quartet, as they nurture each song into existence. The film features a special appearance...
6004) The Snowman Trek
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A team of Ultra-marathon runners journey to Bhutan to set a speed record on the world's hardest trek. But Bhutan's Himalayan landscape isn't welcoming to athletes not used to the conditions, and its inhabitants must be persuaded to let the runners pursue their dream. The result is a shared accomplishment and an adventure that constantly teeters on the edge of total failure.
6005) Ladyboys
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Thai
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Four humble ladyboys working in the rubber tree forests at night, in the rice fields during the day, looking for a way to survive, exist and have the others accept them with their difference.
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For this episode of Brown Bag Wine Tasting, William Shatner sits down with magician and television presenter Christen Gerhart to talk wine, magic, and what happens when magicians reveal their secrets! Christen discusses learning magic from old books, the emotional attachment she has to performing magic, and the feeling that anything is possible in the realms of illusion and misdirection. Using magician terminology, Christen describes their white wine....
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Wild Scandinavia volume 3
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English
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Scandinavia’s northern extremes have been shaped by fire and ice, but it’s the sun that reigns supreme. Musk oxen, polar bears and arctic foxes endure the long polar night, but the sun’s return ignites a dramatic transformation and heralds the return of migrant visitors. Under the midnight sun, a sleepless rush of life and opportunity takes feverish hold, before the first signs of winter return.
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The discovery of the mutilated body of a mentally challenged young mother begins a journey into madness that is so unbelievable that the mastermind behind the crime ultimately got away with murder. Revealing for the first time how and why it happened, filmmaker J. David Miles ventures into the insane mind of a small-town crime family's matriarch and uncovers a conspiracy that continues to elude law enforcement to this very day. By going straight to...
6011) How to Go Viral
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Art historian Professor Richard Clay explores the popularity and impact of internet memes, experimenting by devising and releasing some himself. He examines why some memes cut through the information deluge while most die – and asks how virals are shaping our culture and politics.
6012) The Song Collector
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Set high in the Indian Himalaya, Ladakh is home to a rich Buddhist culture and an ancient tradition of folk singing. In the 1960s as economic development thrust change upon Ladakh, Morup Namgyal, Ladakh's greatest folk artist, began his lifelong efforts to preserve his beloved folk songs. Using song as the medium, Morup and his peers sparked a social movement that would bring about profound and enduring change in Ladakh. It was a movement built on...
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The definitive story of the Kent State shootings is told here for the first time. The haunting photograph of Mary Vecchio poised in anguish over the body of a slain student. The fervor of the wounded student activist still consumed by the need for justice all these years later. The former Guardsman living with a badge of shame few could imagine.
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Vegas The City the Mob Made volume 6
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English
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Spectacle invades the city that never sleeps and a technological revolution takes place.
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When Kristen Balouch was ten years old, her parents made a surprising announcement: their whole family was going on a trip to plant trees! Kristen, her sisters, and her mom and dad, and their pet, Wonder Dog, flew from their California home to a logging site in British Columbia. There, they joined a crew working to replant the trees that had been cut down. In this story, Kristen reflects on the forty days they spent living in a tent, covered in mud...
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Neighboring with the Dai group, Aini group lives primarily in and around mountains and canyons at an altitude of twenty-five to eighty hundred feet. They are famous for their production of Pu Er Tea. Dancing and singing are second nature to the Aini people. In this program, while listening to the folk song titled Magical Village by famous Aini singer MI Xian, the audience will enjoy Aini's cultural traditions of tea brewing and folk dancing by girls...
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Discovering Film volume 10
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English
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Robin Williams.
6019) Dear Homeland
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Dear Homeland is the lyrical story of Mexican singer/songwriter Diana Gameros, who left Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to pursue her musical dream in Michigan. Arriving legally but unable to extend her stay as an international college student, she becomes an undocumented immigrant who can't return to her beloved homeland and family for fear of not being able to re-enter the United States. Moving to San Francisco, she finds community, realizes her musical...
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Epic Animal Encounters volume 4
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English
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A regular morning spear fishing turns into a horror film for spear fisherman Eugene van Wyngaardt as he finds himself in a one-on-one situation with a Great White.
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