National Geographic - Wild America The Wild Grand Canyon Safari (2012) 720p HDTV x264-SYA
English | 00:44:56 | H264 | 1280x720 | 25.00fps 4131 Kbps | AC3 128 Kbps 48.0khz | 1.3 GiB Genre: Documentary
Naturalist Casey Anderson heads deep into the Grand Canyon on an epic quest to profile the rare and endangered wildlife living on the edge of the abyss.
Three extraordinary mysteries from the natural world: Exploding toads in Hamburg; 13 Fairy Penguins found dead in Manly; and the erosion of Cornwall’s endangered corals.
Long before she set foot on stage in England, Felicity Kendal launched her acting career in India, where her parents ran a theatre company called Shakespeareana. Here she returns to the land of her childhood to discover the full story of India's enduring love-affair with Shakespeare - from the first days of Empire to Bollywood and beyond. Shaped by her enthusiasm to discover more about a drama in which her own family played a role, Felicity's journey takes her to India's iconic cities and to places far off the beaten track. Along the way she meets film stars and prisoners, kings and market traders, schoolchildren, historians and her own relatives, and sees how Shakespeare's plays are inspiring a new generation of artists and film-makers in modern India.
National Geographic - Wild America The Wild Grand Canyon Safari (2012) HDTV XviD-AFG
English | 00:44:56 | XviD | 640x360 | 25.00fps 1174 Kbps | MP3 56 Kbps 48.0khz | 377MB Genre: Documentary
Naturalist Casey Anderson heads deep into the Grand Canyon on an epic quest to profile the rare and endangered wildlife living on the edge of the abyss.
National Geographic - The Pack Lions (2012) HDTV XviD-AFG
English | 00:46:59 | XviD | 640x360 | 25.00fps 1169 Kbps | MP3 56 Kbps 48.0khz | 392MB Genre: Documentary
From the air, ground, and trees, National Geographic investigates the hunting tactics within elite predatory units–wild dog and lion packs. Featuring amazing cinematography and innovative CGI techniques, The Pack reveals fascinating details of the hunt–starting with the first trigger to the climactic feeding frenzy, the battle with scavengers...and the hungry individuals left only with scraps.
Narrated by Geoffrey Holden and filmed in Australia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, and Malaysia. The film captures the incredible diversity of species which have evolved throughout the long history of tropical biology-insects, gaudy frogs, exotic plants and flowers. Species have formed interdependent relationships, all of which are dependent on the trees. With the loss of the forests, thousands of these species will become extinct before they can be discovered.
I was angry at renting this movie and then watching from a distance in the lab as the female biologist picked up and handled the specimens gathered from 3,000 feet below the surface of the ocean. She looks into the glass basins containing specimens and laughs as though they're funny but she makes no attempt to tell us what they are, and the camera makes no attempt to let us look at them.
The Amazon is the biggest river on Earth. Only little of plant and animal life along its banks is known to man. And there are many secrets known to the tribe shamans of which we never heard. During a journey of one of those shamans down the river from one of its wells, who meets a western scientist traveling up the river from the sea, the audience experiences a huge variety of landscapes, animals (pink dolphins, for example), plants and people.
History Channel Marijuana A Chronic History HDTV XviD-MOMENTUM
English | AVI | XVID 1072 kbps 29.970 fps | 624x352 | MP3 160 kbps 48 KHz | 699 MB Genre: Documentary
The fight against drug use in America has been going on since the turn of the last century
but the term "War on Drugs" only became part of our national dialogue in 1970 when it was first used by President Richard Nixon. The President later formed the DEA and started a push to outlaw drugs of all kinds. Among the most discussed drugs in this war is Marijuana. This special will look at the storied and strange history of Marijuana in America
Discovery Earth From Space HDTV XviD-AFG
English | AVI | XVID 1181 kbps 25 fps | 640x360 | MP3 128 kbps 48 KHz | 1h31mns | 773 MB Genre: Documentary
Venture on an epic quest to discover the invisible forces and occurrences that sustain life on this planet and - for the first time - see these processes in action on Discovery Channel. An original Canada/U.K. co-production, this sweeping two-hour special reveals the Earth's deepest mysteries, captured in breath-taking detail, and raises profound questions and challenges the old assumptions of how it all works. Using the latest CGI technology, and joining NASA and the world's foremost Earth scientists, EARTH FROM SPACE transforms raw satellite data into a visible spectrum, offering viewers authentic, high-definition moving images that vividly illustrate these processes at work.
BBC - The Private Life of Plants 1995
English | AVI | XVID 2001 kbps 25 fps | 688x512 | AC3 192 kbps 48 KHz | 4.01 GB Genre: Documentary
David Attenborough's thrilling series, taking us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, is captured on this amazing video. The account of plant life's struggle for survival is seen as never before in a story full of drama, beauty and staggering achievement. Attenborough takes us through each aspect of plants' lives travelling, growing, flowering, their struggle with other plants and animals, and the ingenious way they adapt to even the harshest of conditions.
BBC Nature Greatest Events 2009 HDTV XviD HD 720p-NPW
English | AVI | XVID 3598 kbps 25 fps | 1280x720 | AC3 384 kbps 48 KHz | 7.45 GB Genre: Documentary
“Nature’s Great Events is a BBC nature documentary series broadcast from 11 February 2009. The British version is narrated by David Attenborough and is being shown on BBC One and BBC HD. In the USA, the series will broadcast on the Discovery Channel under the alternative title Seasons of Survival.
BBC - The Great Euro Crash with Robert Peston (2012) 576p HDTV x264 AAC-MVGroup
English | 00:59:01 | H264 | 1024x576 | 25.00fps 1788 Kbps | AAC 128 Kbps 48.0khz | 754MB Genre: Documentary
With Europe teetering on the edge of an economic precipice, BBC business editor Robert Peston takes a long view of the euro - from Churchill's vision of a United States of Europe to the bail-outs of Greece, Portugal and Ireland. Meeting a property developer in Ireland, a taxi driver in Rome and a German manufacturing worker, the film exposes the high cost being paid by European workers today for the dream of monetary union - and how close Europe came to a complete banking meltdown. The crisis could yet claim another victim - Britain, with its vast financial sector, would be dragged down by the collapse of the euro. The cost for saving the euro may be high, but the alternative would be a return to the economic mayhem of the 1930s.