The Passage

NHK Train Cruise - The Passage of Time in the Snowy North (2019) Movies

Posted by notbanned at March 2, 2019

Traverse the sublime winter wonderland in the northern reaches of Honshu on local lines. Tsugaru Railway is famous for the coal-fired stove on its train. Wonder at the rugged coastline along the Sea of Japan on the JR Gono Line. The Konan Railway is a lifeline for local residents. Visit the old temples, sake breweries, and wooden buildings designated as important cultural properties, and savor the local dishes. Enjoy a slow journey through tranquil snowscapes and sense the passing of time.

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The Civil War (TV) (1990) Movies

Posted by Mindsnatcher at July 29, 2018

The Civil War, the Emmy Award-winning nine-part series from Ken Burns, is now fully restored to high definition, achieving the optimal picture quality originally intended. This six-disc collector's set also features over two hours of new bonus video. Hailed as a film masterpiece and landmark in historical storytelling, Ken Burn's epic documentary brings to life America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.

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Amfora Media - The State Hermitage Museum (2011) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Sept. 5, 2023

The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the world's largest art museums. Its magnificent buildings served as the official residence of the Russian Emperors for almost two centuries. Now they are open to the public and over two million artifacts and works of art from prehistoric times to the contemporary period are exhibited in hundreds of galleries and rooms.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) [ReUp] Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Sept. 19, 2017

While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.

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Dekalog / The Decalogue (1989-1990) [Criterion Collection] Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Feb. 2, 2017

Dekalog / The Decalogue (1989-1990)[The Criterion Collection #837]
DVD Video, 5 x DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 720x480 | 583 mn | 36,8 Gb
Polish: Dolby AC3, 1 ch
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Series

The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part epic masterpiece, Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieslowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.

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BBC - Abortion: Beyond the Backstreet (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 30, 2018

Exactly 50 years ago, in 1968, the Abortion Act came into force. It was passed in response to the numbers of women dying from unsafe and illegal abortions. The legislation was hugely controversial at the time and abortion continues to be an issue that arouses strong views. In this film, we talk to people on both sides of the debate. We meet women who had backstreet abortions, many sharing their stories for the first time, as well as people whose lives were affected by the passage of the law including doctors, nurses and police officers. Many people opposed the act, often from religious conviction.

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PBS - Wing and a Prayer: The Saga of Utah Man (1993) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at April 25, 2021

On August 1, 1943, 178 B-42 bombers and crews set out on what would become the most highly decorated military mission in American history: an allied aerial assault against Hitler's oil refineries deep in enemy territory at Ploesti, Romania.

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HC. - 39-45: The Channel's Superguns (2020) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 28, 2022

The English Channel during WWII was a strategic passageway separating two major enemies: Great Britain and Germany. Whoever controlled the Channel controlled the passage of warships and commercial vessels—basically, all weapons supplies.

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PBS American Experience - The Vote (2020) Movies

Posted by rwdfox at Oct. 31, 2023

One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote — a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.

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We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire Movies

Posted by at Aug. 2, 2021

We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire (1978)
A Latin palindrome is the title of Guy Debord's last film, in which he, as narrator, explains that he will make neither concessions to the tastes of his viewers nor to the dominant ideas of his day. After extensively insulting the audience that goes to the cinema to forget its heteronomous life, the film becomes autobiographical, using images from the world of spectacle: advertising brochures, clips from feature films (Les enfants du paradis), comics, aerial footage of Paris, tracking shots through Venice, photographs of friends – all commented on by Debord, with an at times melancholy undertone: "This Paris no longer exists." His assessment is that one of the great pleasures of his life has been the sensation of the passage of time, and as a witness to the disintegration of social order, he has loved his epoch.

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