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BBC - Special Forces - Ultimate Hell Week (2015) Movies

Posted by vivid23 at Oct. 7, 2015

An ultimate endurance challenge as 29 of the UK's fittest men and women are pushed beyond their mental and physical limits by battle-hardened veterans from the world's toughest Special Forces. Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff presents as 29 of the fittest men and women from all over the UK face the ultimate endurance challenge. Over the course of 12 days, our 'recruits' are pushed beyond their physical and mental limits by battle-hardened veterans from the world's toughest Special Forces, from the Navy Seals to the British SAS.
Based on the special forces' selection methods, every 48 hours the recruits are put through a set of challenges, each one designed to break them down and every one more difficult than the last. In the end there can only be one winner of Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week.

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National Geographic - Living in the Time of Jesus (2013) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at April 2, 2013

How did people make ends meet 2000 years ago? When you got sick in the first century, what did you do about it? What laws were the Temple Guards actually enforcing? From the creators of The Naked Archaeologist, Living in the Time of Jesus transports viewers back in time to witness life during the first century.

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AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa (1943-1993) [Repost] Movies

Posted by ETRU at Nov. 5, 2014

The creator of such timeless masterpieces as Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and High and Low, Akira Kurosawa is one of the most influential and beloved filmmakers who ever lived - and for many the greatest artist the medium has known. Now, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the Criterion Collection is proud to present this deluxe box set celebrating his astonishing career. Featuring twenty-five of the films he made over the course of his fifty years in movies - from samurai epics to postwar noirs to Shakespeare adaptations - AK 100 is the most complete set of his works ever released in this country, and includes four rare films that have never been available on DVD.

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The Civil War S01E05 - The Universe of Battle: 1863 (1990) Movies

Posted by ParRus at April 25, 2015

The Civil War S01E05 - The Universe of Battle: 1863

DVDRip | English | MKV | 720 x 480 | AVC ~1200 Kbps | 23.976 fps
AC-3 | 448 kbps | 48.0 KHz | 6 channels | 1h 35mn | 1.35 GB

Genre: Documentary, War, History

This episode opens with a dramatic account of the turning point of war: the Battle of Gettysburg, the greatest ever fought in the Western Hemisphere. For three days 150,000 men will fight to the death in the Pennsylvania countryside, culminating in Pickett's legendary charge. This extended episode then goes on to chronicle the fall of Vicksburg, the New York draft riots, the first use of black troops, and the western battles at Chickamauga, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee. The episode closes with the dedication of a new Union cemetery at Gettysburg in November, where Abraham Lincoln struggles to put into words what is happening to his people.

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The Best of British Animation Awards Vol.1 - Vol.5 Movies

Posted by alexov85 at Oct. 21, 2010

The Best of British Animation Awards Vol.1 - Vol.5

DVDRip | English | Total size 3.15 GB
1) video: 640x480 (1.33:1), 25 fps, DivX Codec 5.x or 6.x ~900 kbps avg | audio: 48 kHz, MPEG Layer 3, 2 ch, ~128.00 kbps avg
2) video: 720x576 (1.25:1), 25 fps, DivX Codec 5.05 Tahanea ~998 kbps avg | audio: 48 kHz, MPEG Layer 3, 2 ch, ~128.00 kbps avg
3) video: 720x576 (1.25:1), 25 fps, DivX Codec 5.05 Tahanea ~993 kbps avg | audio: 48 kHz, MPEG Layer 3, 2 ch, ~128.00 kbps avg
4) video: 720x576 (1.25:1), 25 fps, DivX Codec 5.05 Tahanea ~993 kbps avg | audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 128Kbps
5) video: Н.246 640x480 25.00fps ~900 kbps avg | audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 128Kbps
Art - House, Short movie, Animatiom, Visual Experiment, Collection, World Festivales

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AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa (1943-1993) [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at June 2, 2012

The creator of such timeless masterpieces as Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and High and Low, Akira Kurosawa is one of the most influential and beloved filmmakers who ever lived—and for many the greatest artist the medium has known. Now, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the Criterion Collection is proud to present this deluxe box set celebrating his astonishing career. Featuring twenty-five of the films he made over the course of his fifty years in movies—from samurai epics to postwar noirs to Shakespeare adaptations—AK 100 is the most complete set of his works ever released in this country, and includes four rare films that have never been available on DVD.

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Слово полицейского / Parole De Flic (1985, DVD9 + DVDRip) Movies

Posted by lehachuev at Aug. 3, 2011

Слово полицейского / Parole De Flic (1985)
DVDRip / DVD9 | 1h 36min | XviD 1303 kbps / MPEG2 9472 kbps | Audio: AC3 / AC3 | 656x400 / PAL 16:9 (720x576) VBR Auto Letterboxed | 1.63 Gb / 6.99 Gb
Language: 2xRussian, English / 2xRussian, French | Subtitles: English, Russian / English, Russian
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action

Daniel Pratt, qui vit en Afrique, aprend l'assassinat de sa fille. Cet ancien policier revient alors en France pour la venger…

The angry hero (Delon) leaves France in a fury because of a technicality in the justice system that failed to convict the murderers of his wife…

У полицейского Даниэля Пратта погибла жена, но преступление осталось нераскрытым. Он уходит из полиции, отправляется в Африку, надеясь залечить душевные раны. Однако покой ему только снится…

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The Shawshank Redemption (1994) [For mobile devices: iPhone, iPod Touch] Movies

Posted by ParRus at Jan. 28, 2012

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

BDRip | M4V | 576 x 320 | AVC ~960 kbps | 23.97 fps | Subs: English, Russian, Ukrainian | 2h 22mn | 1.42 GB
English: AAC 165 Kbps, 48 kHz, 2 ch | Russian: AAC 118 Kbps, 48 kHz | Ukrainian: AAC 165 Kbps, 48 kHz, 2 ch
Genre: Crime, Drama | Nominated for 7 Oscars + Another 12 wins | USA

In 1946 a young New England banker, Andy Dufresne (Robbins), is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and sentenced to life at the Shawshank State Prison - twice over. Quiet and introspective, he gradually strikes up a friendship with the prison 'fixer', Red (Freeman), and over the next two decades wins the trust of the governor and guards, but in his heart, he still yearns for freedom.

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True Detective - Season 1 (2014) Movies

Posted by angus77 at June 20, 2014

True Detective is an American television crime drama series on HBO created and written by Nic Pizzolatto, with the first season directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Season one stars Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson (both executive producers of the series), Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, and Tory Kittles, and uses multiple timelines to trace two Louisiana State Police Criminal Investigations Division homicide detectives' hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana across seventeen years. The series premiered on January 12, 2014, and consisted of eight episodes which concluded on March 9, 2014. The series has received widespread critical acclaim.

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Kôji Wakamatsu 18+ Collection (1969 - 1972) Movies

Posted by Mindsnatcher at April 27, 2018

The pioneering Kôji Wakamatsu (born Ito Takashi) was a contemporary of Oshima Nagisa and equally controversial, yet not as famous. While with the yakuza he would work for the mob collecting payments on film sets among other thuggery. Upon release and following odd jobs he became an assistant to a film director and eventually make his own pink film erotic feature called Sweet Trap in 1963. Twenty or so films, including several acclaimed ones for Nikkatsu Studio, later he created his own Wakamatsu production where he and crew would push back against norms by shooting softcore pink features, violent movies, left-wing resistance cuts and even internationally ….

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