The Platform

BBC Our World - Platform 5: Escaping Ukraine (2022)  Movies

Posted by rwdfox at March 12, 2022
BBC Our World - Platform 5: Escaping Ukraine (2022)

BBC Our World - Platform 5: Escaping Ukraine (2022)
HDTV 1080p | 23mn | 1920x1080 | MKV HEVC@1955Kbps | AAC@64.0Kbps 2CH | 335 MB
Language: English | Genre: Documentary | Subs: English

Since Russia invaded Ukraine more than 2 million people have fled the country. Hundreds of thousands of them have passed through Lviv train station, heading for Platform 5.

PBS - FRONTLINE: The Facebook Dilemma (2018)  Movies

Posted by notbanned at Nov. 22, 2018
PBS - FRONTLINE: The Facebook Dilemma (2018)

PBS - FRONTLINE: The Facebook Dilemma (2018)
WEBRip | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 4500 Kbps | 2x~55min | 3.51 GiB
Audio: English AAC 93.4 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary

The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company’s failure to protect millions of users’ data, to the proliferation of “fake news” and disinformation, mounting crises have raised the question: Is Facebook more harmful than helpful? On Monday, Oct. 29, and Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, FRONTLINE presents The Facebook Dilemma. This major, two-night event investigates a series of warnings to Facebook as the company grew from Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room to a global empire. With dozens of original interviews and rare footage, The Facebook Dilemma examines the powerful social media platform’s impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world.

BBC - Inside the Social Network: Facebook's Difficult Year (2019)  Movies

Posted by notbanned at July 17, 2019
BBC - Inside the Social Network: Facebook's Difficult Year (2019)

BBC - Inside the Social Network: Facebook's Difficult Year (2019)
HDTV 720p | MKV | 1280x720 | AVC@2311 Kbps | English AAC@123 Kbps | 2 channels | 59 min 2 s | 1.01 GiB
HDTV 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | AVC@4470 Kbps | English AAC@123 Kbps | 2 channels | 59 min 2 s | 1.91 GiB
Genre: Documentary

Facebook is a company that has grown from nothing to be worth half a trillion dollars in just 15 years. Today nearly a third of all humans are using it, and yet we rarely get to see the people actually in charge of the biggest social network in the world. The company has suffered a series of deepening scandals and intense media scrutiny. In 2018, their mission - to connect everyone on the planet - seemed to be going dramatically wrong. Data leaks, fake news and hacks on user security were threatening to destroy everything Mark Zuckerberg had built.

Channel 5 - Inside King's Cross: The Railway (2017)  Movies

Posted by notbanned at April 1, 2017
Channel 5 - Inside King's Cross: The Railway (2017)

Channel 5 - Inside King's Cross: The Railway (2017)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MP4/AVC @ 2950 Kbps | 4x~45min | 3.82 GiB
Audio: English AAC 160 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary

Documentary going behind the scenes at London’s King's Cross, meeting the army of workers who keep this vital network running.

The Platform  Movies

Posted by at Nov. 8, 2021
The Platform

The Platform (2019)
A mysterious place, an indescribable prison, a deep hole. An unknown number of levels. Two inmates living on each level. A descending platform containing food for all of them. An inhuman fight for survival, but also an opportunity for solidarity.
Drama  Science Fiction  Thriller 

The Co-Lab  Movies

Posted by at March 10, 2022
The Co-Lab

The Co-Lab (2013)
In the winter of 2012/2013, Teton Gravity Research unveiled The Co-Lab, an open-source film competition. With the platform and freedom to express its creativity, a new generation of athletes and filmmakers stepped into the spotlight.

The Lady Vanishes  Movies

Posted by at June 29, 2022
The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes (2013)
Beautiful and wealthy young socialite Iris Carr is used to being at the heart of her social group, but when her friends' raucous and unsociable behaviour escalates whille on holiday in the Balkans she resolves to seek out some tranquillity and travel home alone. But her expectations of peace are short-lived when, at the railway station, Iris wavers in the scorching heat and constant jostle of passengers, fainting suddenly on the platform. She wakes in time to be rushed onto the train, but with a pounding head and a feeling of being almost in a dream. Whille in this malaise she is comforted by an older English lady called Miss Froy, but when Iris falls asleep she awakes to find Miss Froy has gone and her fellow passengers denying she ever existed.
Thriller  Mystery  Horror 

The YouTube Effect  Movies

Posted by at Aug. 9, 2023
The YouTube Effect

The YouTube Effect (2022)
YouTube has garnered over 2.3 billion users and is worth up to $300 billion dollars. At its center is its algorithm, something that threatens to destroy not only the platform, but the entire Internet.
Documentary 

BBC - Engineering Giants (2012)  Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Dec. 14, 2017
BBC - Engineering Giants (2012)

BBC - Engineering Giants (2012)
HDTV | 1280 x 720 | .MKV/AVC @ 3000 Kbps | 3x~59mn | 4.57 GB
Audio: English AAC 128 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary, Technology

The world's most enormous machines are stripped down and torn apart to discover their hidden secrets and to reveal out how each one has changed our world in its own unique way.

NG. - YouTube Revolution (2019)  Movies

Posted by notbanned at March 7, 2019
NG. - YouTube Revolution (2019)

NG. - YouTube Revolution (2019)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2715 Kbps | 43 min 59 s | 995 MiB
Audio: English AC3 384 kbps, 6 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary

As YouTube turns ten, we chart the history of the last decade through the lens of the world's most famous video sharing site. This is the inside story on the biggest and most influential viral videos in history, and the platform's meteoric rise from start-up to major corporate player. It's the human story of those who created it, the stars it gave birth to, and the countries whose fates it changed. On April 23, 2005 the first YouTube video, "Meet Me at the Zoo," featuring co-founder Jawed Karim, was uploaded.