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BBC - Can You Feel It: How Dance Music Conquered the World (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 6, 2018

The story of the dance revolution - the beat, the clubs and the DJs that changed music culture forever.

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Gershwin's Summertime: The Song That Conquered the World Movies

Posted by at Aug. 1, 2020

Gershwin's Summertime: The Song That Conquered the World (2011)
The song "Summertime" was written by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward and although not thought to be directly involved, Ira Gershwin gets an official credit. The song soon developed a life of it's own beyond the original opera and has been recorded and adapted into many different styles of music from jazz to opera, rock to reggae, soul to samba. It has been recorded and performed in many different languages around the world and remains one of the most famous and best loved songs ever written. This documentary looks at its history, how it came to be created, and its subsequent history as it traveled through time and around the world. "Summertime" is the most covered song on the planet. At least 25,000 versions of it exist.

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Seven Wonders of the World Movies

Posted by at May 14, 2022

Seven Wonders of the World (1956)
Seven Wonders of the World is a 1956 film in Cinerama. Lowell Thomas searches the world for natural and man made wonders and invites the audience to try to update the ancient Greek list of "Seven Wonders of the World."

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BBC - David Harewood Remembers: A Man from the Sun (1956) Movies

Posted by rwdfox at Oct. 20, 2022

David Harewood shares his impressions of John Elliot's game-changing 1956 BBC drama, which explored the challenges and racism encountered by Windrush immigrants from the West Indies, who had come to Britain after being promised work and a secure future.

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BBC Revolutions - The Ideas that Changed the World: The Smartphone (2019) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 14, 2019

im Al-Khalili and a team of experts investigate the fascinating story of the smartphone. It took a Hollywood star, a missed holiday and a Roman siege to give us the device that connects us all. In 133BC, Greek tutor Polybius updates the method the Roman army uses to communicate. His system uses fire to spell out words. It is the world’s first encrypted communications system. In 1825, Samuel Morse is far away from home when he receives a letter telling him that his wife is dying. By the time he gets back, she is already buried. Determined to find a faster way to communicate, Morse learns about electricity.

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Discovery Channel - How Beer Saved the World (2011) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Feb. 27, 2019

"This show is a must watch for beer enthusiasts," said Dornbush. "People have always benefited from beer, from the Sumerians and Egyptians, to the American Revolution; from the brewing techniques that ensured potable beer (as opposed to contaminated water) in the Middle Ages, to the evolution of microbiology, zillions of lives have been saved because of beer."

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BBC - Richard and Jaco Take on the World (2019) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 30, 2019

Richard Mylan and his autistic son Jaco are going on a journey of discovery. Travelling from Wales to America and back again, they’re visiting the most autism-friendly places around the world, to find out how we can make everywhere from a local barber shop to a national stadium more inclusive for autistic people. Richard and Jaco want to understand why so many autistic people feel like they have to change themselves to fit into the world around them. Along the way, they meet some amazing people who believe it’s the world that should be changing instead.

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All the World's Memory (1956) Movies

Posted by Tavaz at Jan. 21, 2018

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a …

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History Channel - Last Days of World War II (2005) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Sept. 26, 2020

Here is the ultimate synchronisation of details and events which signalled the last six months of the greatest conflict the world has ever known. It involved over 100 countries, it killed 50 million people and absorbed six years of struggle and bloodshed for the peoples of half the globe.

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Rome: The World's First Superpower (2014) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Nov. 5, 2018

Rome: The World's First Superpower' follows award-winning actor Larry Lamb as he tells the story of Rome 3,000 years ago, an extraordinary people rose and conquered the known world. He looks at how the Romans then went onto creating the greatest empire mankind has ever seen, stretching from Britain to the middle east and how it lasted a thousand years.
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