National Geographic - Ultimate Explorer: The Best of Lisa Ling (2010) COMPLETE DVDRip XviD AC3-MVGroup
English | 5x~52min | XviD | 720x528 | 29.97fps 1881 Kbps | AC3 128 Kbps 48.0khz | 3.42 GiB Genre: Documentary
National Geographic Ultimate Explorer host Lisa Ling travels to the far corners of the globe to seek out adventure and address some of the most topical issues of the day in this collection of memorable episodes from her weekly National Geographic Channel program. From travelling overseas to investigate the motivation of female suicide bombers to exploring American prison culture and travelling to Nepal to meet with two dedicated doctors who bring the gift of sight to one of the most remote regions of the planet, there's no assignment too dangerous for Ling, and no issue too tough to tackle.
Discovery Channel - Last of the Czars (1996) COMPLETE DVDRip XviD AC3-MVGroup
English | 3x~49min | XviD | 704x528 | 25.00fps 2291 Kbps | AC3 128 Kbps 48.0khz | 2.38 GiB Genre: Documentary
History comes to life, in the Discovery Channel's production of Last of the Czars. The viewer learns about the Tsar and Tsarina, their five children, and the holy man, Rasputin. Exploring the events leading up to the execution of the royal family in 1918, The Discovery Channel utilizes archival film footage and previously unseen photographs to illuminate the story of the doomed family. History unfolds amid the unrest of a war-ravaged Russian population as survivors from the era of the Romanovs reveal details pertaining to the family.The Romanov family ruled Russia for 300 years; an imperial empire that crumbled in 1918 when Lenin-backed revolutionaries toppled Nicholas II in a violent upheaval. Before their world came crashing down, the Romanovs-- Nicholas, Alexandra and their five children-- enjoyed a life shrouded in mystery. But with the recent downfall of the Soviet Union, information has come to light ending generations of speculation. Rare, never-before-seen film footage, actual letters, czarist-era survivor interviews, photos, and other rare items give a finely-detailed look at Russia's most dramatic era.A presentation of Discovery Network in association with Brook Associates Limited.Originally produced by Discovery Communications, Inc., 1996.
Tony Robinson explores the weird and wonderful history of belief, superstition and religious experience in Britain -- a terrifying world of walking corpses and evil spirits - the world that our ancestors thought they lived in. For 2000 years, Britain has been a Christian country. Or has it? In fact, our ancestors actually kept many other dark, fantastical beliefs alive. It was a world underpinned by outlandish, dangerous and plain weird beliefs. Ideas that today seem unbelievable, but were seen as uncontroversial and hugely influential, with some having shaped our history as much as mainstream religion.
Find out what it really takes to make lots and lots of quarters, how does a blast of water make a fish tank watertight, how do they blast limestone without blasting it into tiny bits, and why are highlighters yellow.
Language : English
02:32:13 | 1280x720, 23.98 fps | ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1 | MKV | 2.85 GB Genres : Action | Crime | Drama
When Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent launch an assault on the mob, they let the clown out of the box, the Joker, bent on turning Gotham on itself and bringing any heroes down to his level.
Language : English
02:01:51 | 1280x544, 23.98 fps(r) | ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo | MKV | 2.2 GB Genres : Biography | Drama | History
The true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion...
Earth Now Films - Water Wars (2010) DVDRip XviD AC3-MVGroup
English | 00:55:27 | XviD | 720x528 | 29.97fps 1771 Kbps | AC3 128 Kbps 48.0khz | 702MB Genre: Documentary
The nation of Bangladesh is prey to every threat from water known to man. To understand the plight of this downriver delta nation is to understand what all of us will face in the coming years. Water Wars tells the story of this land at war with not only rising seas, but devastating floods and droughts -from India's dams dumping their excess in the wet season and siphoning off river water in the dry season. And as Bangladesh sees less and less river water during the dry season it is forced to dig more wells going deeper, encountering arsenic poisoning that is filling hospitals and graveyards.
Featuring interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O Donnell, Cheryl Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney and Clash himself, filmmaker Constance Marks insightful and personal documentary tells the story of one of the world s most adored and recognizable characters and the visionary behind the icon.
BBC - The Two Thousand Year Old Computer (2012) PDTV XviD AC3-MVGroup
English | 00:58:39 | H264 | 720x416 | 25.00fps 1779 Kbps | AC3 128 Kbps 48.0khz | 746MB Genre: Documentary
In 1901, a group of divers excavating an ancient Roman shipwreck near the island of Antikythera, off the southern coast of Greece, found a mysterious object - a lump of calcified stone that contained within it several gearwheels welded together after years under the sea. The 2,000-year-old object, no bigger than a modern laptop, is now regarded as the world's oldest computer, devised to predict solar eclipses and, according to recent findings, calculate the timing of the ancient Olympics. Following the efforts of an international team of scientists, the mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism are uncovered, revealing surprising and awe-inspiring details of the object that continues to mystify
National Geographic - Down To The Earth's Core (2012) PDTV XviD AC3-MVGroup
English | 01:29:59 | XviD | 720x416 | 25.00fps 1392 Kbps | AC3 192 Kbps 48.0khz | 895MB Genre: Documentary
Take a journey from the footpath to the centre of the planet in one epic unbroken step, smashing through more than 6,000 kilometres of solid rock to explore the hidden world beneath our feet. With its stirring soundtrack and commanding narration, it's initially unclear whether this documentary is supposed to enlighten or terrorise. Beneath our feet lies our greatest enemy, it begins. Suddenly we're falling down a coalmine in America's Midwest, marvelling at the fossilised plants that cover the ceiling. To understand how they got there, we have to go back 300 million years - and, thanks to clever computer-generated footage, we can. What follows is an informative account of our very own journey to the centre of the earth via 6000 kilometres of rock.
National Geographic - Space Launch: Along for the Ride (2006) DVDRip x264 AC3-MVGroup
English | 00:50:09 | H264 | 832x464 | 25.00fps 2075 Kbps | AC3 128 Kbps 48.0khz | 744MB Genre: Documentary
Nestled in the remote and desolate steppes of southern Kazakhstan, the Russian run Baikonur Cosmodrome is the oldest and largest space facility in the world. With 20 to 30 rocket launches annually, the stage is set for an unusual mission. American entrepreneur Greg Olsen has spent 20 million dollars to live out every stargazer's dream. He will become the third private citizen on the planet to hop aboard the Soyuz rocket, and journey to outer space. After completing 500 hours of intensive cosmonaut training, including zero G exercises, crisis drills, and launch simulators, Olsen joins two veteran astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station. Olsen turns his personal handy-cam on himself and records a daily diary while in orbit some 400 kilometers above the Earth. Throughout the training, launch, and re-entry procedures, cameras provide a rare peek inside a Russian space mission, gaining unprecedented access to the floor of mission control as well as the highly secure launch pad in Baikonur. Inside takes viewers out of this world and back again.
National Geographic - Million Dollar Moon Rock Heist (2012) PDTV XviD AC3-MVGroup
English | 00:44:58 | XviD | 720x416 | 25.00fps 2320 Kbps | AAC 128 Kbps 48.0khz | 746MB Genre: Documentary
In Million Dollar Moon Rock Heist, we go behind the scenes of this bizarre moon rock heist On July 13th 2002, 25-year-old NASA trainee, Thad Roberts and his accomplices broke into the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, and stole a safe full of priceless moon rocks collected from the Apollo lunar missions over the years. Valued on the black market at millions of dollars, Roberts claimed that he stole these rocks to impress fellow intern, Tiffany Fowler, with whom he was having an affair, boasting that they were the first people to have ‘sex on the moon’ – literally on top of the stolen rock fragments As the search for the missing rocks began, Roberts continued to keep up appearances at NASA while negotiating a sale with Axel Emmermann, a Belgian mineral collector who was secretly working with the FBI to track him down. However, when the safe was finally located, the rock samples were too contaminated and notebooks containing over 30 years of painstaking moon rock research had been lost forever.
Mountain Gorilla takes us to a remote range of volcanic mountains in Africa, described by those who have been there as ""one of the most beautiful places in the world"", and home to the few hundred remaining mountain gorillas. In spending a day with a gorilla family in the mountain forest, audiences will be captivated by these intelligent and curious animals, as they eat, sleep, play and interact with each other. Although gorillas have been much-maligned in our popular culture, viewers will finally ""meet the legend"" face to face, and learn about their uncertain future.
