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Documentary BBC - Museums in Quarantine (2020) English | Size: 1.13 GB Category: Tutorial Exploring national collections at a time of enforced closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Ch1. Tate Modern beginning with Alastair Sooke examining Tate Modern's Andy Warhol exhibition. Covering works from across the American artist's career, he explores Warhol's long-running commitment to experimental film and TV, as well as his fascination with advertising, pop music and commerce.  BBC - Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy (2020) English | Size: 1.23 GB Category: Documentary Peter Sellers was one of the twentieth century's most astonishing actors. His meteoric rise to fame - from his beginnings with Spike Milligan on BBC Radio's The Goon Show in the 1950s to his multiple Oscar nominations and status as Stanley Kubrick's favourite actor - is equalled only by the endless complexities of his personal life - the multiple marriages, the chronic health problems, the petulant fits of rage, the deep insecurity, the unwise career choices and the long decline in his later years.  Channel 4 - VE-Day in Colour: Britain's Biggest Party (2020) English | Size: 899 MB Category: Documentary Using newly recorded accounts and previously unseen archive, this is the story of the day in May 1945 when the fighting finally stopped across Europe and the celebrations began as Britain rejoiced in unity. The stories of ordinary folk are heard, but alongside the happy tales of street parties, fancy dress, and jelly and ice cream are the reflections of those thinking of loved ones who wouldn't return to enjoy a peace that was hard won.  ABC - Four Corners: Trapped in the Volcano (2020) English | Size: 1.47 GB Category: Documentary How the cruise of a lifetime turned into a deadly nightmare. Passengers and day trippers were trapped when New Zealand's most active volcano erupted. Were tourists warned of the danger and could more have been done to prevent tragedy?  BBC - Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes (2020) English | Size: 2.01 GB Category: Documentary The life of legendary Scottish mountaineer and rescuer Hamish MacInnes. The legend of Hamish MacInnes began early. At 16 he climbed the Matterhorn, and at 17 he built his first motor car from scratch. He attempted Everest in 1953 with his friend Johnny Cunningham and almost stole the peak before Hillary and Tenzing claimed it. As an explorer, expedition leader and engineer he achieved world fame. As inventor of the all-metal ice axe, author of the International Mountain Rescue Handbook and founder of Glencoe Mountain Rescue, he has been responsible for saving hundreds of lives, perhaps thousands.  ABC - Four Corners: The Cost of Coronavirus (2020) English | Size: 1.50 GB Category: Documentary Four Corners: The Cost Of Coronavirus The outbreak of coronavirus in Australia has created a public health emergency like no other. It’s also unleashed a financial wrecking ball right through the Australian economy. With access to the key players in this financial battle, Insiders host David Speer’s reports for Four Corners and captures history in the making.  BBC Horizon - The Great British Intelligence Test (2020) English | Size: 865 MB Category: Documentary Is your smart phone making you stupid? Can you make yourself cleverer? The Great British Intelligence Test measures the brainpower of the nation in one of the largest intelligence experiments of its kind.  QUEST - World's Greatest Motorcycle Rides - New Zealand (2012) English | Size: 2.20 GB Category: Tutorial Henry Cole sets off on another journey to find the greatest place on earth to ride a motorcycle. Ch1. North Island Starting in Auckland in the North Island, Henry sets off on two wheels - but soon takes to air and sea - to witness more of the breathtaking scenery that New Zealand is justly famed for.  BBC -Stacey Dooley Investigates: Costa del Narcos (2020) English | Size: 1.98 GB Category: Documentary The presenter reports on how southern Spain has become the main gateway for drugs into Europe, leading to violent turf wars between gangs and a government crackdown as the police struggle to regain control of their streets. Stacey goes on aerial patrol with police officers guarding the strip of water between Morocco and Spain, and discovers the extraordinary lengths smugglers will take to evade them, including travelling at 100mph in speedboats during extreme weather conditions.  BBC The Sky at Night - Locked Down but Looking Up (2020) English | Size: 828 MB Category: Documentary The Sky at Night celebrates its 800th episode while filming takes place under the coronavirus lockdown. Chris Lintott explores how some astronomers are managing to continue making observations by controlling telescopes as far away as Hawaii from a laptop in their bedrooms in Belfast. Maggie Aderin-Pocock investigates how members of the public can get involved in analysing data from Mars, even when they are confined to their homes. And Pete Lawrence points out some treats in the night sky that we can all see if we keep looking up even when we're locked down. |
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