The World to Come

Things to Come (1936) Movies

Posted by fekmax at April 26, 2015

A global war begins in 1940. This war drags out over many decades until most of the people still alive (mostly those born after the war started) do not even know who started it or why. Nothing is being manufactured at all any more and society has broken down into primitive localized communities. In 1966 a great plague wipes out most of what people are left but small numbers still survive.

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Things to Come Movies

Posted by at Aug. 25, 2024

Things to Come (1936)
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

Drama Science Fiction

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Myrna Loy: So Nice To Come Home (1991) Movies

Posted by fekmax at Aug. 12, 2016

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic.

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How I Learned to Love Women / Come imparai ad amare le donne (1966) Movies

Posted by fekmax at Dec. 25, 2013

How I Learned to Love Women / Come imparai ad amare le donne (1966)

German, Italian | DVDRip | MKV | AVC, 1903 Kbps | 688x552 | 25.000 fps | 1.62 GB

Audio: AC-3, 224 Kbps | 2 channels | 48.0 KHz | Runtime: 01:36:49 minutes | Subtitle: English, German
Genre: Comedy

"That Wonderful Girl" (AKA Come ad amare le donne imparai) features a large and renowned cast: Nadja Tiller, Anita Ekberg, Zarah Leander, Erika Schramm and Heinz Erhardt starring in this Italian-German production. The combination fits this sparkling comedy with flying colors: the youthful, beautiful Robert chases out into the world to unravel the mystery of women. In his boarding school the wife of the director gives him his first private lessons in the art of love.

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The Book that Shook the World Movies

Posted by D3pZ4i90 at Jan. 21, 2010

We’re in the middle of a climate of religious groups seeking to influence our airwaves. The Festival of Light has claimed victory over a review of Californication by the Australian Media and Communications Authority. And Hillsong is supposedly pulling the strings behind Australian Idol’s finalists. So have we really come much further than in 1971 when conservatives were outraged over the publication of “The Little Red Schoolbook?”

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PBS Nova - The Wave That Shook The World Movies

Posted by chukim84 at Dec. 25, 2009

On December 26, 2004, at 7:59 a.m. local time, an undersea section of the Earth’s crust slipped along a 700-mile-long fault off the coast of Sumatra, setting in motion a train of destructive waves called tsunamis that left well over 250,000 people dead or missing. In “Wave That Shook the World,” NOVA traces exactly what happened, and why.

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BBC - How Art Made the World (2005) Movies

Posted by angus77 at Nov. 2, 2014

Why does our world look like it does? That great modern mystery is spectacularly unraveled in this international landmark series and epic quest across five continents and 100,000 years?via some of the greatest treasures of the ancient world?to the heart of human creativity. Encompassing everything from cave paintings to ceramics and pyramids to palaces, How Art Made the World probes the global trend for unrealistic depictions of the human body; the secret powers of the feature film; how politicians manage to manipulate people so easily; visions of death and the afterlife; and, crucially, why we use imagery at all.

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The Elegant Universe (2003) Movies

Posted by metalero87 at Dec. 8, 2014

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History Channel - The World Wars (2014) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at March 5, 2017

An assassination in Sarajevo sparks a global war. For the next 30 years, deadly fighting rages across Europe, Africa, China and the Pacific. Hitler. Churchill. De Gaulle. MacArthur. Patton. Stalin. Mussolini. We know them as legends. But they first learn what it will take to rise to greatness as young soldiers, fighting for their lives on the frontlines. This is the story of a generation of men who come of age in the trenches of World War I, only to become the leaders of World War II. The lessons they learn on the frontlines shape them as they rise to power—and haunt them as the deadly fighting breaks out again. Some become heroes, forged in courage under fire.

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BBC - How Art Made the World (2006) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at April 16, 2019

Embark on a thrilling journey through time and five continents to the heart of creativity. Fusing social history, politics, science, nature, archaeology and religion, this international landmark series unravels a universal mystery - why the world around us looks like it does. Modern-day mysteries are answered by journeying back to the beginning of civilisation via some of the most amazing man-made creations in the world.

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