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How the West Was Won (1962)  Movies

Posted by JingleWay at Oct. 21, 2011
How the West Was Won (1962)

How the West Was Won (1962)
720p BluRay Rip | MKV | 1280 x 442 | x264 @ 5 059 Kbps | 2h 44mn | 6.56 GB
Audio: English AC-3 5.1 @ 640 kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance | USA

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the nineteenth century–including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

America: The Story of Us (TV) (2010)  Movies

Posted by Mindsnatcher at Aug. 1, 2014
America: The Story of Us (TV) (2010)

America: The Story of Us (TV) (2010)
Complete Season 1 | 12 Episodes
720p Blu-rayRip | MKV | AVC @ 5.94 Mbps, 23.976 fps | 1280 x 720 (4:2:0) | 12 hr 0 min | 25.7 GB
Audio: English AC-3 5.1, 48kHz, 16-bit @ 640 Kbps | Subtitle: none
Directors: Marion Milne, Clare Beavan | Narrator: Daniel Webb | Country: USA
Genre: Documentary, History

Time is by its very nature such an ephemeral entity that it remains one of the central enigmas of our existence. When, for example, does "what happened" become "history"? That seems an especially cogent question in this supercharged era of 24 hour news cycles, when virtually every picayune situation around the world is deemed "Urgent" or "Breaking" or some other adjective denoting something of utmost import. History Channel of course attempts to separate the wheat from the chaff, putting both minutiae as well as larger arching stories into their proper context...

Great American Railroad Journeys (episodes 1-15) (2016) (BBC Two)  Movies

Posted by TestTickles at Feb. 19, 2016
Great American Railroad Journeys (episodes 1-15) (2016) (BBC Two)

Great American Railway Journeys (2016) (BBC)
Web rip | 832 x 468 (MP4); 1280 x 720 (MKV) @ 160:9 | MP3 @ 48.0 KHz | 29-30 min x 15 episodes | English | 300 - 580 mb (various lengths)
Genre: documentary

Great American Railroad Journeys is a documentary television series on BBC Two hosted by Michael Portillo, who had done two documentaries series before this, Great British Railway Journeys and Great Continental Railway Journeys throughout Europe. This time, he travels to the United States to take his love of the railways to a new world, discovering things he was not aware of before about the origins of the country. The core of his travels take him from the northeast part of the country to Virginia.