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Discovery Channel - Building the World Cup (2014)
PDTV | 832x468 | .MKV/AVC @ 2024 Kbps | 3x~43min | Audio: English ÂC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 1.97 GiB
Genre: Documentary

Building the World Cup goes behind-the-scenes of one of Brazil’s biggest engineering projects: the upgrading and creation of three state-of-the-art football stadiums capable of hosting international football matches at the highest level. This three part series follows the complex refurbishment of Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Maracano Stadium, the site of the country’s last World Cup defeat on home turf. The high-tech Corinthians Arena in Sao-Paulo, a project so cutting edge much of its advanced technology has not even been tested at the international level. There is also a visit to the vastly expensive project that is the Amazonia Arena in the heart of the Brazilian rainforest. All three stadiums differ from an architectural and engineering perspective but all three share the same issues - tight schedules, sky-rocketing budgets, unpredictable weather conditions and massive country-wide protests. With the 2014 World Cup fast approaching and the eyes of the world on Brazil, can the country deliver on time and on budget?

David Attenborough takes a breathtaking journey through the vast and diverse continent of Africa as it has never been seen before.

CBC The Nature of Things - Uakarai: Secrets of the Red Monkey (2015)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 5696 Kbps | 43mn 55s | Audio: English AC3 384 kbps, 6 channels | Subs: None | 1.90 GiB
Genre: Documentary

Scientist Mark Bowler is on a mission to find the rare and elusive red-faced Uakari monkey. His search takes audiences deep into the remote rainforests of Peru - a dangerous journey of many days. The Uakari is a creature of legend that until today has never been filmed in the wild because its home is 30 metres up in the canopy. To the local people these monkeys are the guardians of the rainforest: only they can release the seedpods inside the fruit of the aguaje palm, which feeds the many other exotic animals that share the forest. The naturalist who first described the red Uakari in the mid-19th century called it "a monkey of a most grotesque appearance." Now 150 years later, it may very well become the poster-child of the world's last great rainforest, the Amazon.