The Sacred City (2016)

BBC - The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors (2013)  Movies

Posted by Tutorial at July 5, 2019
BBC - The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors (2013)

BBC - The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors (2013)
HDTV | 1280 x 720 | .MKV/AVC @ 3213 Kbps | 3x~59mn | 4.21 GB
Audio: English AAC 128 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary, History

It was the world's last Islamic empire - a super-power of a million square miles. From its capital in Istanbul it matched the glories of Ancient Rome. And after six centuries in power it collapsed less than a hundred years ago. Rageh Omaar sets out to discover why the Ottomans have vanished from our understanding of the history of Europe. Why so few realise the importance of Ottoman history in today's Middle East. And why you have to know the Ottoman story to understand the roots of many of today's trouble spots from Palestine, Iraq and Israel to Libya, Syria, Egypt, Bosnia and Kosovo.

Between the Rivers - Letters from Baghdad (2016)  Movies

Posted by Tutorial at July 7, 2017
Between the Rivers - Letters from Baghdad (2016)

Between the Rivers - Letters from Baghdad (2016)
HDTV | 1024 x 576 | .MP4/AVC @ 1388 Kbps | 1 h 31 min | 997 MB
Audio: English AAC 132 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary

Gertrude Lowthian Bell, sometimes called the "female" Lawrence of Arabia was a British adventurer, archaeologist and political powerhouse, who helped shape the modern Middle East after World War I. The film chronicles Bell's journey into the uncharted Arabian desert and all-male halls of colonial power with never-seen-before archival footage of the region shot a century ago. The film takes us into a past that is eerily current.

BBC - The Hidden Art of Islam (2012)  Movies

Posted by Tutorial at July 14, 2017
BBC - The Hidden Art of Islam (2012)

BBC - The Hidden Art of Islam (2012)
PDTV | 720 x 400 | .AVI/XviD @ 1531 Kbps | 58 min 49 s | 703 MB
Audio: English AC-3 128 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary, Arts

At the British Museum, a collection of artefacts from the Muslim world is on show which tells the history of a journey to Mecca always forbidden to non-Muslims. It features a succession of examples of the rich visual language of Islamic culture past and present, artwork created to reflect the powerful experience for any Muslim making the Hajj pilgrimage to Islam's most sacred city and its most sacred building, the Ka'aba.

BBC - The Story of the Jews (2013)  Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Oct. 26, 2023
BBC - The Story of the Jews (2013)

BBC - The Story of the Jews (2013)
HDTV | 1280 x 720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2567 Kbps | 5x~58mn | 5.35 GB
Audio: English AAC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary, History

Simon Schama explores the history of the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day.

IMAX - Arabia: A Story of the Golden Ages (2011)  Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Aug. 20, 2017
IMAX - Arabia: A Story of the Golden Ages (2011)

IMAX - Arabia: A Story of the Golden Ages (2011)
HDTV | 1280 x 720 | .MKV/AVC @ 3946 Kbps | 46 min 5 s | 1.36 GB
Audio: English AC-3 192 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary, Travel

Arabia takes viewers deep into an exotic land steeped in 2,000 years of ancient history and unique customs not found anywhere else in the world.

BBC - The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors (2013)  Movies

Posted by Tutorial at July 10, 2017
BBC - The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors (2013)

BBC - The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors (2013)
PDTV | 720 x 404 | .AVI/XviD @ 1199 Kbps | 3x~59mn | 1.66 GB
Audio: English AC-3 128 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary, History

It was the world's last Islamic empire - a super-power of a million square miles. From its capital in Istanbul it matched the glories of Ancient Rome. And after six centuries in power it collapsed less than a hundred years ago. Rageh Omaar sets out to discover why the Ottomans have vanished from our understanding of the history of Europe. Why so few realise the importance of Ottoman history in today's Middle East. And why you have to know the Ottoman story to understand the roots of many of today's trouble spots from Palestine, Iraq and Israel to Libya, Syria, Egypt, Bosnia and Kosovo.

BBC - The Legacy of Lawrence of Arabia (2010)  Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Sept. 20, 2017
BBC - The Legacy of Lawrence of Arabia (2010)

BBC - The Legacy of Lawrence of Arabia (2010)
HDTV | 1280 x 720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2386 Kbps | 1 h 57 min | 2.07 GB
Audio: English AAC 128 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary, History

Rory Stewart examines the legacy of Britain's First World War campaign in the Middle East, and draws parallels with British and American interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan today. In the First World War, TE Lawrence helped to unite feuding Arab tribes into a formidable guerrilla army which helped to topple the Ottoman Empire. But today Lawrence has an extraordinary new relevance. His experiences of defeating a foreign military occupation, and of leading an insurgency, have led to him being held up as the man who cracked fighting in the Middle East.

BBC - The Life of Muhammad (2011)  Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Jan. 11, 2017
BBC - The Life of Muhammad (2011)

BBC - The Life of Muhammad (2011)
HDTV | 1280 x 720 | .MKV/AVC @ 4000 Kbps | 3x~59mn | 5.11 GB
Audio: English AAC 128 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History

Three-part series presented by Rageh Omaar which charts the life of Muhammad.

Channel 4 - Islam: The Untold Story (2012)  Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Jan. 14, 2017
Channel 4 - Islam: The Untold Story (2012)

Channel 4 - Islam: The Untold Story (2012)
PDTV | 720 x 400 | .AVI/DivX @ 1502 Kbps | 1h 11mn | English MP3 128 Kbps, 2 channels | 838 MB
Genre: Documentary, History

In this ground-breaking film, historian Tom Holland explores how a new religion - Islam - emerged from the seedbed of the ancient world, and asks what we really know for certain about its rise. The result is an extraordinary detective story. Traditionally, Muslims and non-Muslims alike have believed that Islam was born in the full light of history. But a large number of historians now doubt that presumption, and question much of what Muslim tradition has to tell us about the birth of Islam.
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concerto Koln, Peter Dijkstra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (2016) 3CDs

Johann Sebastian Bach - Johannes-Passion (2016) 3CDs
Julian Prégardien (Evangelist), Tareq Nazmi (Jesus), Christina Landshamer (soprano)
Ulrike Malotta (alto), Tilman Lichdi (tenor), Krešimir Stražanac (bass)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concerto Köln, conducted by Peter Dijkstra

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 787 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 409 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Choral | Label: BR Klassik | # 900909 | Time: 02:57:16

The music of Bach's 'St. John Passion', which the composer wrote for Holy Week in 1724 immediately after his appointment as cantor of St Thomas's Church in Leipzig, still retains all its freshness and vitality nearly 300 years later, and is a true Baroque delight. The two main choruses Herr, unser Herrscher and Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine form the beginning and culmination of a large-scale orchestral and vocal structure in which Bach reveals his absolute mastery of polyphony. Inwardly reflective chorales are as much interwoven into the events of the Passion as the haunting arias which comment on the biblical texts of the Gospel of St John. Throughout this solemn Passion oratorio, there is a constant emphasis on Baroque musical magnificence. What makes this live recording of the concert version of March 7, 2015 in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz so special? The fresh voices of the young and excellent vocal soloists, the regularly praised "astonishing three-dimensionality" and "crystalline clarity" of the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks under the direction of Peter Dijkstra and, of course, the renowned period instrument ensemble Concerto Köln.