300 2012

On October 6, 1953, RCA held experimental stereophonic sessions in New York's Manhattan Center with Leopold Stokowski conducting a group of New York musicians in performances of Enesco's Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1 and the waltz from Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. There were additional stereo tests in December, again in the Manhattan Center, this time with Pierre Monteux conducting members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In February 1954, RCA made its first commercial stereophonic recordings, taping the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Münch, in a performance of The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz.

Cassim is a young Muslim man who works in his father's fabric shop in Johannesburg. However, Cassim wants to be a stand-up comedian, which his father disproves of. When he gets a gig at a local bar, he has to find a way of keeping it a secret.

Smithsonian Channel - Aerial America: Alabama (2012)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 4096 Kbps | 51mn 1s | Audio: English AC3 448 kbps, 6 channels | Subs: None | 1.65 GiB
Genre: Documentary

Buckle up and "Roll Tide" as we take an aerial journey over vast cotton fields, endless waters, storied football stadiums, and historical landmarks that collectively tell the tale of Sweet Home Alabama. Discover its rich history as we reveal the astronomical discoveries that helped us reach the moon and the civil rights victories that forged a path to equality for millions. The story of the Cotton State has as many dramatic turns as the tracks of the Talladega Superspeedway, and you have an unobstructed, breathtaking bird's eye view.

An inquisitive man sets out to find the facts about milk and discovers more about the growing controversy surrounding it. Throughout the journey, he is left with more and more questions instead of answers and remains dangling and confused amidst vastly opposing position held by various doctors, scientists, nutritionists and experts. Milk is a food so fundamental to our daily diet that its value for our health, it seems, is meant to be left unquestioned. Milk is the perfect food. Or is it?

Sickened after visiting severely disfigured children who were born from parents and or grandparents that were exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam, director Andrew Nisker wanted to so desperately help bring an ending to the senseless suffering.

The American Scream (2012)
WEB-DL | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 4019 Kbps | 1h 31mn | Audio: English AC3 384 kbps, 6 channels | Subs: English | 2.87 GiB
Genre: Documentary

An original documentary which follows three families in a small seaside town in Massachusetts as they prepare for their annual home made haunted houses. This story highlights their long journey from planning to opening day and cleanup until next year and the obstacles which face them during the process.

Bestiaire (2012)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 3341 Kbps | 1h 11mn | Audio: French AC3 384 kbps, 6 channels | Subs: None | 1.91 GiB
Genre: Documentary

Animals/People: Along the rhythm of the changing seasons they watch one another. Bestiary unfolds like a filmed picture book about mutual observation, about peculiar perception. A contemplation of a stable imbalance, and of lose, tranquil and indefinable elements.