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BBC Our World - 2nd Platoon Still Fighting (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 29, 2018

A decade after returning from Iraq, Our World meets a group of former US soldiers still struggling to adjust to life back home. The BBC filmed with them in Baghdad in 2007 at a time of intense violence, and has tracked them down to find out how they have adjusted to civilian life. The programme discovers they have been facing new struggles with PTSD, alcohol, marital breakup and a wider society that does not understand what they went through.

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BBC - Imagine: Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? (2013) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Dec. 13, 2013

With performances from Peter Capaldi, imagine… marks the 500th anniversary of Machiavelli's notorious book The Prince. Famous for lines like 'It is better to be feared than loved', The Prince has been a manual for tyrants from Napoleon to Stalin. But how relevant is The Prince today, and who are the 21st century Machiavellians? Alan Yentob talks to contributors including Colonel Tim Collins, who kept a copy of The Prince with him in Iraq; plus Hilary Devey, Alastair Campbell and Game of Thrones writer George RR Martin.

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BBC - International Terrorism (2008) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at Nov. 19, 2013

The terrorist is by no means a new actor on the world stage. However, thanks to startling developments in military and communications technology, this perennial threat to freedom and security has taken a quantum leap forward during the past thirty years. In many cases, these vicious and determined men and women have supplanted nation states on the globe's "most wanted" list!

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BBC - John Simpson: Stories from the Frontline (2015) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Sept. 23, 2015

BBC world affairs editor John Simpson takes viewers behind the scenes of reporting from the frontline. He and his guests - Jon Snow, Christiane Amanpour and Max Hastings - discuss the difficulties, moral ambiguities and challenges of this increasingly dangerous job, with a series of clips from conflicts in the Falklands, Bosnia, Iraq and Syria, highlighting some of the best work of the past 50 years.

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BBC Panorama - John Simpson: 50 Years on the Frontline (2016) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Dec. 20, 2016

John Simpson, one of the BBC's best-known foreign correspondents, has been at the heart of breaking news for more than half a century. A frontline witness of history, the world affairs editor has dodged bullets and cheated death from Iraq to Afghanistan. In a highly personal Panorama, John looks back over his 50-year career, revisiting the people and places that have impacted on him most, as he reveals his thoughts on the challenges for the future.

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BBC - Noah's Ark: The Real Story (2003) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at July 14, 2020

The story of Noah building an ark to save his family and save thousands of animals from a flood which destroys all life on earth is an epic from many people's childhoods. It's a wonderful story, found in the Bible, the Koran and the Torah. But is it in fact, real history?

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BBC - The Story of India (2007) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at June 29, 2017

The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's most ancient surviving civilisation, with unbroken continuity back into prehistory. Like other great civilisations - Greece or Egypt for example, over the millennia it has enjoyed not just one but several brilliant golden ages in art and culture.

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BBC - In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (1997) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Dec. 11, 2022

In 335 BC Alexander of Macedonia set off on an expedition to conqueror the world. The voyage of Alexander the Great covered more than 22,000 miles in ten years, from Greece to India and back, through some of the most difficult and unforgiving terrain.

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BBC - The Secret History of Writing (2020) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 8, 2020

How the invention of writing gave humanity a history. From hieroglyphs to emojis, an exploration of the way in which the technology of writing has shaped the world we live in.

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BBC Storyville - Hurt Locker Hero (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Nov. 27, 2018

The heart-stopping story of 'Crazy Fakhir', a Kurdish colonel in the Iraqi army and legendary bomb disposal expert who single-handedly disarmed thousands of landmines across the country with just a pocket knife and a pair of wire clippers. Between the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and the chaos and destruction wreaked by IS ten years later, Fahkir's unwavering bravery saved thousands of lives throughout Iraq. 'Hurt Locker Hero' tells Fakhir's story through the raw and visceral amateur footage captured by his soldiers on a camcorder intended for filming family occasions.

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