The Substance

The Boy Friend - by Ken Russell (1971). DVDRip

The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company (Polly Browne) is forced to understudy for the leading lady (Rita) at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director (Cecil B. DeThrill) is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.

Traffic examines the question of drugs as politics, business, and lifestyle. With an innovative color-coded cinematic treatment to distinguish his interwoven stories, Steven Soderbergh embroils viewers in the lives of a newly appointed drug czar and his family, a West Coast kingpin’s wife, a key informant, and police officers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The film, which delivers a complex and nuanced take on an issue of international importance without sacrificing any energy or suspense, is a contemporary classic, and the winner of four Oscars, for best director, best screenplay, best editing, and best supporting actor for Benicio del Toro.

PBS - Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail (2015)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MP4/AVC @ 1812 Kbps | 2x~54min | Audio: English AAC 137 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English | 1.73 GiB
Genre: Documentary

Uranium is created violently in the collapse of a star long ago. A massive explosion; a supernova that is the birth our solar system. Uranium is woven throughout the fabric of our Earth, and uranium still crackles, with the heat and violence of that creation. Uranium spits energy unlike any other rock. Its energy transforms DNA, and shapes the very nature of what it means to be human. You are who you are, because of uranium. Uranium is a changeling. Leave a lump of it alone and when you return, it will have turned into something else — all by itself. Uranium is a shape shifter that transforms itself into new forms. A goblin rock that plays tricks — the greatest of which is to transform itself into politics, culture, economics and terror. This rock, considered worthless, transforms itself into the most desirable, the most expensive and the most feared substance on Earth. In a warming world, uranium may yet transform again into our savior as a source of clean, limitless power. Be careful how you wake the Dragon.

CNBC - The Diamond Rush (2016)
WEBRip | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 3455 Kbps | 21mn 27s | 530 MiB
Audio: English AAC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary

The hardest substance on earth, the gem of royalty, the choice of celebrities. Wars have been fought and lives have been lost, all over a sparkly stone. CNBC's Bob Pisani goes inside the lucrative, secretive diamond industry to reveal the true gem in "The Diamond Rush."