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History Channel - The Real Face of Jesus? (2010) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Sept. 6, 2015

What did Jesus look like? Artists, scholars and millions of Christians around the world have been pondering the question for centuries. The Real Face of Jesus? follows a team of graphic experts as they use cutting-edge 3D software to bring a holy relic known as the Shroud of Turin to life. Many believe Jesus Christ was buried in this ancient linen cloth, which bears traces of blood and the faint, ghostly image of a man. With the help of modern technology, can HISTORY finally unlock the secrets of one of the world’s most scrutinized and controversial artifacts? To attempt this feat, HISTORY turned to computer graphics artist Ray Downing of Studio Macbeth, who used photographs and digital animation to reconstruct Abraham Lincoln in 2009. As Ray and his team grapple with the task, we delve into the Shroud of Turin’s long history, along with the many perplexing questions that centuries of scientific research have failed to settle. How, for instance, did the figure’s imprint appear on the cloth? And how can we extract 3D information from a two-dimensional piece of linen?

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History Channel - Line of Fire: Volume Two (2002) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Jan. 24, 2016

Line Of Fire is history with a difference. The great battlefields of war are presented in a unique animated environment providing new insights into military history's most compelling events. Each powerful episode combines informative graphics with atmospheric recreations and archive footage to analyse every facet of famous battles from the medieval period to modern times. Series also features authoritative comment by leading military historians from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. A Cromwell Production in association with The History Channel UK.

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History Channel - Lost Magic Decoded (2014) Movies

Posted by notbanned at July 15, 2017

Lost Magic Decoded Some magic effects are so mysterious; they’ve confounded illusionists for hundreds of years. How can a mechanical man defeat a world chess champion? How can a live bullet be stopped in mid-air? Magic has an ancient history, and one master magician, Steve Cohen, is on a quest to uncover the secrets behind these legendary feats and more. In Lost Magic Decoded, a new two-hour special on HISTORY, Cohen tracks down, decodes, and resurrects ten of the most thrilling and shocking magical illusions ever witnessed.

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History Channel - History Alive: 100 Years of Terror (2000) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 21, 2019

A four-part series chronicles the history of terrorism around the world. Violence has been used as a political tool for centuries, but it took on a new tenor in the 20th century. From the Russian Revolution to today, this extraordinary series goes behind the scenes of some of the most infamous groups to see how terrorism made history and transformed society in the last 100 years. Presented by Roger Mudd, each thrilling episode draws on interviews with law enforcement agents, former activists and terrorists, and esteemed scholars, as well as extraordinary footage of some of the most infamous events of the century.

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History Channel - How the World Ends (2017) Movies

Posted by notbanned at June 13, 2019

Throughout history, people have prepared for the apocalypse. This series focuses on the different threats that may bring about the end of humanity. How the World Ends covers worldwide theories on the end of the world from Nostradamus prophecies, celestial armageddon, killer bacteria, virus epidemics, nuclear threats and biblical prophecies. How the World Ends takes a closer look at the people, the science and the history surrounding each theory's impending countdown to destruction.

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HC Time Machine - Nazi America: A Secret History (2000) Movies

Posted by notbanned at April 15, 2024

In a feature length survey of Nazism in the USA, we trace the history from the fairly benign organizations that gave structure to newly arrived German immigrants to many Neo-Nazi parties still active today. Although Nazism has never found much appeal in the United States, it has managed to infect small groups and impressionable individuals in the decades since it first appeared on America.

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History Channel - Rolling Thunder: The True Story of the 3rd Armored Division (2002) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at July 6, 2021

Among America's battle-scarred tank units, the 3rd Armored Division is remembered as first among equals. The 3rd earned its reputation as the 'Spearhead Division' in WWII, when it led Allied Forces into the heart of Germany. During the tension-filled decades of the Cold War, the 3rd Armored stood eyeball to eyeball with the Soviet Union. In the Gulf War, this specialized tank unit overpowered Iraqi armor. From Elvis Presley to Colin Powell, the 3rd has always been on the front lines of history.

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History Channel - Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works (2019) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Jan. 24, 2020

In 1943, in a circus tent in Burbank, CA, a bunch of revolutionary thinkers first gathered together in secrecy to build America's first jet fighter. They were rule benders, chance takers, corner cutters-people who believed that nothing was impossible. In the decades that followed, this secret club would create some of the most iconic flying machines in history: the U-2 spy plane, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 stealth bomber - each of them so unfamiliar, so far ahead of their time, that they were often mistaken for something otherworldly.

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BBC - The Nazis: A Warning From History (1997) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Dec. 18, 2019

The BBC's definitive television history of the rise and fall of the Nazis. The Nazis - A Warning From History exposes the popular myths surrounding the rise and fall of the Third Reich. The series explores how the Nazis came to power, how they ruled, how they treated their occupied territories and, above all, how a cultured nation could be responsible for such acts of inhumanity. How could a political party as fundamentally evil and overtly racist as the Nazis come to power? This remains one of the most enigmatic questions of the last century.

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History Channel - Tales of the Gun (2000) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at March 15, 2019

In the centuries since the gun was invented, hundreds of innovators, engineers and inventors have brought their vision together to create what has become one of the most perfectly produced items ever made. This TALES OF THE GUN COLLECTORS SET chronicles the long history of firearm design and construction from the first, primitive weapons to today's computer-controlled, high-tech factories.

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