L'oncle Charles

The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were America's most influential and important industrial designers. Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals, they have risen to iconic status in American culture.

Shanachie Entertainment - Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1998)
DVDRip | 720x544 | .MKV/AVC @ 1802 Kbps | 1h 17mn | Audio: English AC3 192 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 1.09 GiB
Genre: Documentary | Biography

The first comprehensive documentary of Afro-American jazz bassist, bandleader and composer Charles Mingus. Mingus led a tumultuous life filled with trauma and frustration, joy and creativity. Not light enough to be considered white and not dark enough to fit into the black community, he was an outcast in American society who charted his own path. Likewise, his legacy as a 20th Century composer reaches far beyond conventional jazz idioms. Mingus apprenticed with people like Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton and Charlie Parker before going out on his own and becoming a musical force for more than a decade. When interest in his music waned at the height of the rock era in the mid-1960s, and one of his closest collaborators Eric Dolphy died, he was institutionalized due to psychological problems. Upon his return to the music scene, he began playing more concerts and his sales zoomed. This golden period of recognition ended when he contracted Lou Gehrig's disease and his music began to deteriorate. He died in 1979.

CNN - Face of Evil: The Charles Manson Murders (2015)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 3635 Kbps | 41mn 43s | Audio: English AAC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 1.06 GiB
Genre: Documentary

CNN revisits the vicious, horrific killings by Charles Manson's followers, 45 years later.