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TV Shows BBC Our World - Venezuela: Falling Backwards (2020) English | Size: 415 MB Category: Documentary Oil-rich Venezuela has been in an ever-growing state of crisis since Hugo Chavez died in 2013 and the crash in global oil prices.  BBC - Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe (2020) English | Size: 1.29 GB Category: Documentary Charlie Brooker returns to our screens to take a look at life under lockdown. Ch1: Antiviral Wipe As well as coverage of the crisis itself, Charlie also explores what the public have been watching to while away the hours. Guest contributors joining him, from a safe distance, include the ever-insightful Philomena Cunk and Barry Shitpeas. If nothing else, it will give you something to do for half an hour.  Smithsonian Ch. - Electric Amazon (2015) English | Size: 1.49 GB Category: Tutorial There is an electric grid submerged deep within the Amazon River, made up of a fascinating community of fish that have technological superpowers. Biologist Will Crampton ventures into this world, one which few have ever seen, on a mission to find, catch, and study electric fish. Armed with his own electric devices, join him as he uncovers the fighting style of the jaw lockers, the navigational skills of the knifefish, and the remarkable hunting technique of the electric eel.  BBC - Eminent Monsters (2020) English | Size: 1.30 GB Category: Documentary Documentary tracing the shocking truth of our governments' love affair with torture. In 1950s Montreal, Scottish-born psychiatrist Dr Ewen Cameron experimented on his unwitting patients. His techniques included sensory deprivation, forced comas and LSD injections. His work was covertly funded by the Canadian government and the CIA and since then, his techniques have been used in Northern Ireland, Guantanamo and 27 countries around the world.  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. |
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