Open Diaries

BBC - The Birth of Empire: The East India Company (2014)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MP4/AVC @ 3000 Kbps | 2x~59min | Audio: English AAC 160 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English | 2.59 GiB
Genre: Documentary

Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionised the British lifestyle and laid the foundations of today's global trading systems.

PBS - American Experience: The Greely Expedition (2011)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2324 Kbps | 53mn 40s | Audio: English AC3 384 kbps, 6 channels | Subs: None | 1.04 GiB
Genre: Documentary

In 1881, twenty-five men led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely sailed from the harbor of St. John's, Newfoundland. Their destination was Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data from a vast area of the world's surface that had been described by a British admiral as a "sheer blank." Three years later, only six survivors returned, with a daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny and cannibalism. The Greely Expedition, from producer Rob Rapley (Wyatt Earp), tells a harrowing tale of one of the great scientific adventures of all time. Drawing on an impressive documentary record that includes scientific accounts, diaries, photographs and letters, the film reveals the nearly unbearable pressures experienced by the members of the expedition, and shows how poor planning, personality clashes, questionable decisions and pure bad luck conspired to turn a noble scientific mission into a human tragedy.

David Olusoga looks at the abolition of slavery in Britain and the extraordinary choice by the government of the day to compensate slave owners for their loss of 'property'.

D-Day: Lost Films (2014)
DVDRip | 716x404 | .MKV/AVC @ 1451 Kbps | 163min | Audio: English AAC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 1.72 GiB
Genre: Documentary | History

This 2-part special event features the most critical military operation of World War II. For the 70th anniversary (June 2014), D-DAY: Lost Films presents this iconic battle using newly discovered colour footage, much of which has never been seen. For the first time, viewers can see the largest amphibious assault in history entirely in newly transferred colour HD - 5,000 Allied ships landing over 160,000 soldiers across a 50 mile stretch of Normandy beaches. Despite the name, "D-Day" was not a single day. In the week following June 6, the outcome hung in the balance, with shifting progress and set-backs for both sides. It is estimated that 10,000 men died in combat, the majority during the days after the landing. As Allied forces pushed inland to capture surrounding Nazis-occupied French towns, all were aware the outcome would determine how the war would end.