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Channel 4 - Secret History: Hitler's Hidden Drug Habit (2014) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 21, 2014

During the Nazi era, Adolf Hitler was presented to the German people as a great man of destiny, a man possessed of superhuman vigour and strength who would lead Germany to world domination. The truth was very different. Based on a secret American intelligence dossier and the medical diaries and journals of Dr Theodor Morell, the Führer's personal physician, this Secret History documentary sheds new light on Hitler's health and extraordinary medicinal regime during World War II. Dr Morell's diaries, which have been locked away since 1945, are a unique source of information. They reveal that, far from being a picture of robust health, Hitler was a nervy hypochondriac. In fascinating detail, they chart Hitler's descent into illness and drug dependency, as he used uppers and downers, quack cures, powerful stimulants and multiple injections for various real or imagined ailments. The programme also contains revelatory film footage that the German censors tried to suppress, and which suggests that by 1945 Hitler was in an advanced stage of a serious degenerative disease.

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History Channel - Ten Days to D-Day (2004) Movies

Posted by notbanned at March 23, 2020

Based on the book Ten Days to D-Day by David Stafford, this program unfolds day-by-day, revealing through the letters and diaries of ten people the momentous ten days that led to the Allied invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944.
Follow 10 characters through the dramatic 10-day countdown to D-Day and the beginning of the end of World War II. D-Day on June 6, 1944 is the day of the most ambitious military operation in history. The aim: to liberate Europe from Nazi rule. However it is the dramatic 10 days leading up to the Allied invasion of Europe that have been described as the 10 most important days of the 20th century.

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Mr. Robot S02 [Complete Season] (2016) Movies

Posted by wcruiser at Dec. 9, 2016

“Mr. Robot,” is a techno thriller that follows Elliot (Rami Malek, “The Pacific”), a young programmer, who works as a cyber-security engineer by day and as a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot finds himself at a crossroad when the mysterious leader of an underground hacker group (Christian Slater, “The Adderall Diaries”) recruits him to destroy the firm he is paid to protect. Compelled by his personal beliefs, Elliot struggles to resist the chance to take down the multinational CEOs he believes are running (and ruining) the world.

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Channel 4 - Britain's Great Gay Buildings (2017) Movies

Posted by notbanned at June 26, 2017

Seven famous gay faces champion the buildings that have helped define Britain's gay history, revealing the groundbreaking events that happened there and the extraordinary people who lived and worked at these key historical sites. The Reverend Richard Cole revisits Heaven Nightclub, to reveal its hedonistic past. Mary Portas visits Shibden Hall, in Yorkshire, to discover the secret diaries of a Yorkshire heiress. Craig Revel Horwood explores Britain's drag scene at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Simon Callow tells the story of Oscar Wilde's downfall at the Old Bailey.

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BBC - Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime (2020) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 28, 2020

Michael revisits his TV travels and fans reflect on his achievement.

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BBC - Easter 1916: The Enemy Files (2016) Movies

Posted by notbanned at April 2, 2016

In 1916, at the height of WW1, armed insurgents rose up against the British in Dublin, the empire's second city. Using secret documents, cabinet papers, intelligence reports, military orders, diaries and letters, Michael Portillo pieces together the story of this uprising from the British point of view. Was Dublin just another battle at a time of war where military justice was immediate and brutal or, by their actions, did the British men who wrote these documents hasten the end of an empire?

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BBC - Basquiat: Rage to Riches (2017) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 9, 2017

The recent Sotheby's auction of a Jean-Michel Basquiat Skull painting for over a hundred million dollars has catapulted this Brooklyn-born artist into the top tier of the international art market, joining the ranks of Picasso, de Kooning and Francis Bacon. This film tells Jean-Michel's story through exclusive interviews with his two sisters Lisane and Jeanine, who have never before agreed to be interviewed for a TV documentary.

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BBC - Tankies: Tank Heroes of World War II (2013) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 5, 2017

Historian and former tank commander Mark Urban tells the story of six remarkable men from the Fifth Royal Tank Regiment across World War II. Surviving veterans and previously unseen letters and diaries relate in visceral detail how an extraordinary "band of brothers" fought throughout the war.

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HBO - Love Marilyn (2012) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Sept. 18, 2017

Fifty years after her 1962 death, two boxes of Marilyn Monroe's writings - diaries, poems and letters - were discovered in the home of Lee Strasberg, her acting coach. The film features dramatic readings of Monroe's words by actors, film critics, journalists and authors, and archival footage of Hollywood insiders who knew or worked with the American star.

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BBC - Letters from Baghdad (2017) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Sept. 19, 2017

The extraordinary and dramatic story of Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day. She shaped the modern Middle East after World War I in ways that still reverberate today. More influential than her friend and colleague Lawrence of Arabia, Bell helped draw the borders of Iraq and established the Iraq Museum. Using never-seen-before footage of the region, the film chronicles Bell's extraordinary journey into both the uncharted Arabian desert and the inner sanctum of British male colonial power.

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