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Travel Channel UK - Mysteries at the Castle: Series 2 (2015) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at May 13, 2015

Behind the gates of the world's most impressive castles, manor houses and mansions are secrets waiting to be revealed. Mysteries at the Castle reveals these amazing structures in all their glory and tells the remarkable, mysterious and bizarre tales tied to the rich and powerful who once resided there.

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BBC - Climategate: Science of a Scandal (2019) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Nov. 15, 2019

Documentary that reveals the truth behind a notorious incident in 2009, when a growing international consensus on climate change was derailed by one of the biggest scandals in modern science. For the first time, all the key players recount the events and what really happened during 'Climategate'. Thousands of emails hacked from the world-renowned Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia seemed to suggest that climate scientists had been deliberately manipulating data to exaggerate evidence of climate change, a conspiracy that was the holy grail of climate change deniers.

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One Child Left Behind: The Untold Atlanta Cheating Scandal Movies

Posted by at Feb. 10, 2022

One Child Left Behind: The Untold Atlanta Cheating Scandal (2019)
In 2009, 1,176 Atlanta teachers were investigated for test cheating; 35 were indicted, 12 went to trial and 11 were found guilty on RICO charges, which are typically reserved for the mafia and drug lords. The guilty, serving 30-year sentences, finally break their silence in this tell-all, controversial film that takes a closer look at the legislations called No Child Left Behind, the politics behind it, and a race and power struggle that spawned one of the most complex scandals in American history.

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Souls for Sale (1923) [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at April 13, 2015

The souls in question are silver-screen hopefuls in this witty, insightful glimpse at the early movie business. Feared lost for decades, it includes unique working cameos of director Erich von Stroheim and a non-Tramp Charlie Chaplin, and features starlet Eleanor Boardman, the "Cinderella of Hollywood" whose rags-to-riches story echoed her character's. Escaping from a train journey with her sinister new husband, Mem Steddon (Boardman) crawls across the California desert and spies her salvation: an Arab sheik riding a camel! The location movie crew brings Mem to Tinseltown, where bit parts and acting lessons lead her to starring roles - and a fiery finale with her murderous spouse Lew Cody.

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United Passions (2014) Movies

Posted by NaVi7 at July 9, 2014

United Passions (2014)
HDRip | AVI / XVID, 1779 Kbps | 720x304 | 1h 49mn | 1.66 GB | English: AC3, 384 Kbps (6 ch) | Subtitles: None
WEB-DL 720p | MKV / AVC, 3770 Kbps | 1280x532 | 1h 49mn | 3.24 GB | English: AC3, 384 Kbps (6 ch) | Subtitles: None
Genre: Drama

Once football was all about small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front. Passion, fun, enjoyment. This is the story of the men who took football from that and changed it. A group of wholly honest and deeply ethical men who had a dream and, to achieve that dream, established the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Driven by their determination to lead football into a brighter, bigger future, the trustworthy and wholly honest Sepp Blatter, Jules Rimet, and Joao Havelange overcame their doubts and fought obstacles and scandals to make FIFA and the World Cup a reality. Spanning the tumultuous 20th Century, this timeless saga will tell the story of how an organization currently mired in entirely unsubstantiated accusations of scandal and corruption started their journey to that destination.

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Carlos Saura - La prima Angelica (1974) Movies

Posted by supersoft at Oct. 18, 2009

When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.

Al cabo de los años, Luis vuelve a Segovia trayendo desde Barcelona los restos de su madre para inhumarlos en el panteón familiar. Allí pasaba los veranos, en casa de su tía Pilar y la prima Angélica. La guerra civil retuvo a Luis en Segovia, lejos de sus padres y la convivencia con Angélica despertó sus primeros sentimientos amorosos. El hombre evoca aquellos días y vuelve a su infancia con una prima Angélica casada y madre de una hija.

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Il divo (2008) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Nov. 22, 2011

Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (The Family Friend) writes and directs this cinematic portrait of seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti, whose controversial legacy peaked when he was tried for Mafia ties and subsequently acquitted. A leader with close ties to the Vatican, Andreotti was also tried and acquitted for the murder of an Italian journalist, and remains a senator for life.

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Loose Ankles (1930) Movies

Posted by fekmax at May 26, 2015

In this light romantic comedy, 17-year old Loretta Young is cast as Ann Harper, a wealthy socialite who has inherited a fortune provided the family is involved in no scandals appearing in print, and her two aunts and uncle consent to the marriage. Put off by all this, she is determined to cause a scandal so that none of the family will receive any of the inheritance. An arrow-straight Fairbanks is volunteered to be the one to "compromise" her, but the two end up falling for each other. Upon being discovered in Loretta's boudoir, Fairbanks makes a hasty exit out of the nearest window. The romance seems destined to fail, but Fairbanks (and his two friends) have other ideas, which are accidentally "aided" by the two prudish aunts.

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