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BBC Imagine - Doris Lessing: The Reluctant Heroine (2008) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Feb. 26, 2014

Another chance to see a rare film made with writer Doris Lessing, five years before her recent death at the age of 94. Alan Yentob meets this acerbic, forthright yet warm woman, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature. Brought up in southern Africa, she took London by storm in 1950. She has believed in 'ban the bomb' and telepathy, been a Communist and a 'Free Woman', written realist novels and science fiction. She is perhaps most remembered for her raw and revealing Golden Notebook, which inspired and influenced a generation of women.

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BBC - The Sound and the Fury: A Century of Modern Music (2013) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at March 5, 2013

Series looking at the revolution in 20th century music.

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Lincoln (2012) Movies

Posted by NaVi7 at March 7, 2013

Lincoln (2012)
DVDRip | AVI / XVID, 598 Kbps | 608x256 | 2h 29mn | 755 MB | English: MP3, 96 Kbps (2 ch) | Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
DVDRip | AVI / XVID, 912 Kbps | 640x272 | 2h 29mn | 1.37 GB | English: AC3, 384 Kbps (2 ch) | Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War

In 1865, as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the United States. However, his task is a race against time, for peace may come at any time, and if it comes before the amendment is passed, the returning southern states will stop it before it can become law. Lincoln must, by almost any means possible, obtain enough votes from a recalcitrant Congress before peace arrives and it is too late. Yet the president is torn, as an early peace would save thousands of lives. As the nation confronts its conscience over the freedom of its entire population, Lincoln faces his own crisis of conscience – end slavery or end the war.

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BBC Panorama - America's Gun Addiction (2013) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at March 12, 2013

The Newtown massacre, in which 20 primary schoolchildren died, has been hailed as a turning point on gun control in America. President Obama wants to ban assault weapons, but his opponents say more guns are the answer, not fewer. At a gun range, Panorama meets the teachers who want to take guns into their classrooms to protect their pupils.

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Flo, la piccola Robinson [Episodi 50/50] Movies

Posted by edi1967 at Oct. 5, 2010

Flo è la piccola protagonista del cartone animato "L'isola della piccola Flo" (titolo originale kazoku Robinson - fushigina shima no Flone) prodotto dalla Nippon Animation nel 1981 e trasmesso per la prima volta in Italia nel 1982 su Rete4…

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Saudi Women's Driving School (2019) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 26, 2019

Centered around The Saudi Women’s Driving School – said to be the world's largest driving school, which caters exclusively to women – in the capital city of Riyadh, Saudi Women’s Driving School draws on unprecedented access to a number of Saudi women as they embrace a new way of life and the freedom that comes from being behind the wheel. Directed by Erica Gornall, produced by Nick London and executive produced by Fiona Stourton, this eye-opening film utilizes interviews and verité footage to bring viewers into the private realms in which these strong-willed women exist and show how women's lives are changing in Saudi Arabia since the ban on female drivers was lifted in 2017.

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Next Step Productions - Disarm (2005) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Nov. 16, 2019

Disarm filmmakers Mary Wareham (Next Step Productions) and Brian Liu (Toolbox DC) present a contemporary and provocative view of the forces challenging the achievement of a mine-free world. Disarm spans a dozen countries to look at how, despite a global ban, millions of antipersonnel mines continue to claim victims daily in more than eighty countries.

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ABC - Four Corners: Interference (2019) Movies

Posted by notbanned at April 9, 2019

New evidence of China's covert political influence campaign in Australia. "We've had multiple briefings at the top-secret level from ASIO and other agencies that foreign interference is being conducted in Australia at an unprecedented level." Federal Intelligence and Security Committee member. In 2017, Four Corners, in a joint investigation with The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, revealed the lengths the Chinese Communist Party was going to, to influence Australia's politicians. In response, the federal government passed new laws to ban foreign interference. "Political systems and parties just took what they could for as long as they could get away with it." Former prime ministerial adviser.

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The Sixties S01E02 The World on the Brink (2014) Movies

Posted by vivid23 at June 7, 2014

The heady days of Camelot were clouded by the political and military tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Marvin Kalb, Richard Reeves, Robert Dallek, Sergei Khrushchev and more explain how close the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis brought us all to World War III – and how two nuclear superpowers moved from near confrontation to the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

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Channel 4 - Unreported World: South Africa's Skin Bleaching Scandal (2016) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Nov. 19, 2016

Tania Rashid and director Simon Rawles are in South Africa to investigate why there is such a demand for skin bleaching products in the Rainbow Nation. The government has passed strict laws to protect people from creams containing potentially dangerous chemicals which can lead to serious health complications, but as Unreported World reveals, many are still on sale widely and endorsed by celebrities. A recent study found an incredible one in three women in South Africa use skin-bleaching creams, and there are more than 500 different products for sale. In downtown Johannesburg the products are everywhere - despite the ban on any product selling itself as skin-lightening or whitening.

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