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.
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.
Safe House 1080p BluRay X264 DTS 5.1-BLOW
Language : English
01:54:54 | 1920x800, 23.98 fps | dts, 48000 Hz, 5:1 | MKV | 7.64 GB Genres : Action | Crime | Mystery
A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.
Safe House 720p BluRay X264 DTS 5.1-BLOW
Language : English
01:54:54 | 1280x528, 23.98 fps | dts, 48000 Hz, 5:1 | MKV | 5.46 GB Genres : Action | Crime | Mystery
A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.
When a group of hard working guys find out they've fallen victim to a wealthy business man's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.
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.
BBC - The Fall of Singapore: The Great Betrayal (2012) PDTV x264 AAC-MVGroup
English | 00:59:00 | H264 | 832x468 | 25.00fps 1390 Kbps | AAC 128 Kbps 48.0khz | 586MB Genre: Documentary
Pearl Harbor and the Fall of Singapore: 70 years ago these huge military disasters shook both Britain and America, but they conceal a secret so shocking it has remained hidden ever since. This landmark film by Paul Elston tells the incredible story of how it was the British who gave the Japanese the knowhow to take out Pearl Harbor and capture Singapore. For 19 years before the fall of Singapore to the Japanese, British officers were spying for Japan. Worse still, the Japanese had infiltrated the very heart of the British establishment - through a mole who was a peer of the realm known to Churchill himself.
