The Human Voice

BBC Royal Institution Christmas Lectures - The Language of Life (2017)

BBC Royal Institution Christmas Lectures - The Language of Life (2017)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 3250 Kbps | 3x~58min | 4.17 GiB
Audio: English AAC 132 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary

Professor Sophie Scott discusses one of the fundamentals of human and animal life - the urge to communicate.
BBC Revolutions - The Ideas that Changed the World: The Smartphone (2019)

BBC Revolutions - The Ideas that Changed the World: The Smartphone (2019)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MP4/AVC @ 3500 Kbps | 59 min 15 s | 1.55 GiB
Audio: English AAC 256 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary

im Al-Khalili and a team of experts investigate the fascinating story of the smartphone. It took a Hollywood star, a missed holiday and a Roman siege to give us the device that connects us all. In 133BC, Greek tutor Polybius updates the method the Roman army uses to communicate. His system uses fire to spell out words. It is the world’s first encrypted communications system. In 1825, Samuel Morse is far away from home when he receives a letter telling him that his wife is dying. By the time he gets back, she is already buried. Determined to find a faster way to communicate, Morse learns about electricity.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)  Movies

Posted by Someonelse at July 21, 2019
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | 01:30:23 | 6,03 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps, 日本語 DTS/AC3 6.1/5.1/2.0 @ 768/384/192 Kbps
Subs: English full and English Titling (useful when you're listening to the English dub)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-fi, Drama

When the dawn of the new millennium brings destruction on Earth by means of the seemingly all-powerful angels, the only hope for the future of the human race lies in Evangelions – bio-engineered crafts created from the Angel's technology. As three pilots gear up for the flight that will find them facing the greatest threat to mankind ever wrought upon the planet, a glimmer of hope remains that the humans will be able to defeat the angels and bring peace and prosperity to a planet torn apart by war with the destructive angels.

CPB - The Mechanical Universe...and Beyond (1986)  Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Dec. 9, 2019
CPB - The Mechanical Universe...and Beyond (1986)

CPB - The Mechanical Universe…and Beyond (1986)
DVDRip | 704 x 528 | .AVI/XviD @ 1551 Kbps | 52x~29mn | 17.7 GB
Audio: English AC-3 128 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary

This series helps teachers demystify physics by showing students what it looks like. Field trips to hot-air balloon events, symphony concerts, bicycle shops, and other locales make complex concepts more accessible. Inventive computer graphics illustrate abstract concepts such as time, force, and capacitance, while historical re-enactments of the studies of Newton, Leibniz, Maxwell, and others trace the evolution of theories.

O Melissokomos / The Beekeeper (1986)  Movies

Posted by Rare-1 at Sept. 25, 2017
O Melissokomos / The Beekeeper (1986)

O Melissokomos / The Beekeeper (1986)
DVDRip | MKV | 718 x 576 | AVC @ 2000 Kbps | 117 min | 1.82 Gb
Audio: Greek AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English (Embedded)
Genre: Drama | Greece

Spiros retires as a schoolteacher, his daughter is married, and he starts his annual journey with his bees to get honey from different areas. In his truck he finds a young girl who has just been abandoned and has no roots. Spiros lets her follow for a day. Seeing her difficulty in getting further hitch-hiking, he takes her back. They will meet and part several times. Later she will say that Spiros is the only one who has ever been kind to her.

BBC - Reggie in China Series 1: The City of the Future (2019)  Movies

Posted by notbanned at Nov. 19, 2019
BBC - Reggie in China Series 1: The City of the Future (2019)

BBC - Reggie in China Series 1: The City of the Future (2019)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2321 Kbps | 59 min 5 s | 1.01 GiB
Audio: English AAC 123 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary

In a wild, eye-popping, thought-provoking adventure, Reggie Yates travels to China and visits four very different cities, all at the forefront of the modern nation, to discover the new fault-lines in society and how they affect a generation who have grown up with seemingly more freedom than that of any other in the last 70 years. At a time of enormous change in the country, he discovers how a new wave of creatives, innovators, entrepreneurs and migrant workers are transforming China, and the world, while looking back to China’s past to understand how it has reached its position of global powerhouse, and how the state’s cultural boundaries have been redrawn.

The Human Race  Movies

Posted by at Feb. 4, 2023
The Human Race

The Human Race (2013)
One moment some 80 people are walking on a big city street. Suddenly a blinding light appears that transports them to a very peculiar racing course. A voice sounds in everybody’s head : “The school, the house and the prison are safe. Follow the arrows or you will die. Stay on the path or you will die. If you’re doubled twice, you will die. Do not touch the grass or you will die. Race or die.” Whether you’re rich or poor, old or young, blind, strong, handicapped, courageous or a coward; the rules make no distinction. There can be only one winner !
Horror  Science Fiction  Action 

The Battery  Movies

Posted by at April 30, 2023
The Battery

The Battery (2012)
In rural Connecticut, baseball players Ben and Mickey are trying to survive a zombie plague. They are forced to form a battery: a catcher and a pitcher who work together to outwit the batter, the one who hits the ball. And the batter in this case just happens to be a zombie. Tough Ben and gentle Mickey frequently disagree on the best way to go about the situation. Then they suddenly hear a human voice through their walkie-talkies. Is salvation nearby, like Mickey thinks, or is Ben’s suspicion justified?
Drama  Horror 

The Unseen  Movies

Posted by at Feb. 18, 2020
The Unseen

The Unseen (2017)
Gemma and Will are shattered when their son dies in an accident. Gemma blames herself and starts to have panic attacks that affect her eyesight - and the audience's point of view. Will, tormented, believes he is hearing his son's voice calling out to him. To escape their grief, Gemma suggests they take up Paul's offer to stay at his Lake District country getaway. Gemma's, helped by ex-pharmacist Paul, tries to stop her panic attacks with medication. Will, unable to hear to his son in his bedroom back home, antagonizes Paul and suddenly goes home. Gemma is now reliant on Paul who appears to be developing genuine feelings for her welfare. Love, grief, and the frailty of the human condition are all brought to the fore as Gemma Will and Paul are caught up in a descent into violence, both psychological and ultimately physical.
Drama  Horror  Mystery  Thriller 

The Fix (2014)  Movies

Posted by vivid23 at May 2, 2017
The Fix (2014)

The Fix (2014)
HDTV | 1280x720 | MKV/x264 @ 2716 Kbps | 72mn | Audio: English AC3 640 kbps, 6 channels | Subs: None | 1.73 GB
Genre: Documentary

Junior, a young father trying to turn his life around after years of heroin addiction, joins forces with a group of fellow hepatitis-C-infected former junkies in the Bronx to fight the disease in their community. Knitting personal narratives together with a profile of innovative programs at a methadone clinic, the film explores the concept of storytelling as an instrument of change and gives a powerful voice to marginalized members of society. Ultimately a very personal story of redemption and hope, The Fix puts a human face on addiction and disease with sensitivity and grace.