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Unmoderated Tag: Science Rating: No Votes Hits: 8 Comments: 0 The Blue Planet: Seasonal Seas The Blue Planet: Seasonal Seas Episode 5 of the BBC documentary. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, RT 48:32. Just when the weather is at its worst, 100,000 grey seals haul themselves up through the surf on to Sable Island off Nova Scotia. This is the world's largest colony of grey seals and perversely they've come to breed in winter. Within 18 days the pups are abandoned, but spring is on its way with plenty of food. An eight-tonne basking shark filters 1,000 tonnes of seawater through its gills every hour to sieve out plankton, and large numbers are attracted to plankton blooms. On the seafloor, seaweed stretches towards the sunlight, and off the coast of California, underwater forests of giant kelp grow up to 100 metres high. Massive schools of fish shelter here and sea otters snooze at the surface winding strands of kelp around themselves as anchors. By July, the seasonal seas are warming up fast. On the coast of Nova Scotia large female lobsters are marching 150km from cold, deep waters where they spent the winter, to warm shallows where they can incubate their eggs. In August, pacific salmon return to the coast of Alaska and are hunted down by huge salmon sharks. By early autumn, Pacific white-sided dolphin are turning up in British Columbia in great numbers. Rather than fish for herring they like to play - engaging in a dolphin's version of tag, as they pass a strand of seaweed from flipper to flipper. As fast as winter approaches in the north, spring is coming back at the opposite end of the world. Strange handfish walk across the bottom of the sea using their fins like hands. There is also a beautiful courtship ballet performed by Australian squid that change colour as they dance. A male leafy seadragon is a devoted parent, carrying dozens of eggs on his belly and relying on his perfect leafy camouflage to hide them from other hungry fish. User: spam_vigilante Jul 24, 2008 4:56 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Science Rating: No Votes Hits: 11 Comments: 0 TED Talks: Keith Barry Does Brain Magic TED Talks: Keith Barry Does Brain Magic First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic. User: spam_vigilante Jul 24, 2008 4:13 AM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 14 Comments: 0 NOVA scienceNOW: Smart Bridges NOVA scienceNOW: Smart Bridges Can we engineer bridges that tell us what's wrong with them before it's too late? Neil deGrasse Tyson investigates. See the 10-minute broadcast segment via: QuickTime or Windows Media. User: spam_vigilante Jul 23, 2008 8:15 PM
Permanent Tag: Cinema Rating: Good Hits: 20 Comments: 0 Laurel & Hardy: The Hoose-Gow Laurel & Hardy: The Hoose-Gow Colorized version of the 1929 short, RT 19:28. Stan and Ollie are sent to prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a raid they tell a prison officer they were only watching. After attempting to escape and being sent to dig ditches with other convicts on work detail, they start a rice-throwing melee with the visiting governor and his party. This comes about when they accidentally puncture the radiator in the prison inspector's car and then stupidly try to patch it with rice. User: spam_vigilante Jul 23, 2008 4:17 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 217 Comments: 2 Television Under the Swastika Television Under the Swastika Michael Kloft's documentary on the history of Nazi television. Legend has it that the triumphal march of television began in the United States in the fifties. But in reality its origins hark back much further. As early as the thirties, a bitter rivalry raged for the world's first television broadcast. Nazi Germany wanted to beat the competition from Great Britain and the U.S. - at all costs. Reich Broadcast Director Hadamovsky christened the new-born "Greater German Television" in March 1935. And it was only in September 1944 that the last program flickered across the TV screens. For a long time the belief persisted that only very few Nazi programs had survived, but SPIEGEL TV has now succeeded in tracking down a stock of television films and reports which have remained intact since the end of the Third Reich. These include extensive coverage of the 1936 National Socialist Party Convention in Nuremberg which recalls today's live broadcasts, and of a 1937 visit Benito Mussolini paid to Berlin. Interviews with high-ranking Nazis such as Albert Speer, Robert Ley and the actor Heinrich George are among the finds, along with numerous special reports (i.e. on the Reich Labor Service), a cooking show and the lottery drawing. Television anchorwomen greet their tiny audiences in specially installed television parlors in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg with "Heil Hitler." The entertainment programs are particularly curious. Cabaret artists are featured - alongside singers extolling the virtues of the "brown columns of the SA and SS." This documentary by Michael Kloft will reveal a rare and intriguing view of the Third Reich, one far removed from the propagandistic presentations of Leni Riefenstahl & Co. and the weekly cinema newsreel, yet no less ideologically slanted. This is Nazi Germany expressed in an aesthetic medium that we ourselves have only really known since the fifties. User: spam_vigilante Jul 23, 2008 4:11 AM
Headline Tag: Politics Rating: Amazing Hits: 120 Comments: 0 Daylight Robbery Daylight Robbery What Happened to the $23 billion? BBC documentary, RT 58:31. Jane Corbin investigates claims that as much as $23bn may have been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq. Now more than 70 whistleblower cases threaten to reveal the scandals behind billions of dollars worth of waste, theft and corruption during the war. The US justice department has imposed gagging orders which prevent the real scale of the problem emerging. User: spam_vigilante Jul 23, 2008 4:08 AM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 76 Comments: 0 The Galapagos: Forces of Change The Galapagos: Forces of Change BBC documentary circa October 2007, RT 48:45. Natural-history series exploring the Galapagos Islands, where the forces of nature can be brutal. It's a land of fire, astride the equator, and at the mercy of the elements. This concluding episode reveals how, through time and isolation, animals and plants have evolved the most surprising ways to cope with the profound geological and climatic forces. In the new millennium, with a growing interest in this delicate microcosm of our planet, come ever-increasing challenges. User: spam_vigilante Jul 22, 2008 7:23 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 279 Comments: 0 The Dark Lords of Hattusha The Dark Lords of Hattusha Lost Cities of the Ancients episode from 2006, RT 58:52. There is evidence of a fourth empire from pre-biblical times. User: spam_vigilante Jul 22, 2008 4:17 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 276 Comments: 4 Iron Chef America: Cranberries Iron Chef America: Cranberries Giada DeLaurentis and Rachel Ray are judged in the final portion of the competition. User: spam_vigilante Jul 22, 2008 4:12 AM
Headline Tag: Short Films Rating: Amazing Hits: 114 Comments: 0 The Arari Show The Arari Show Clever bit of stop-motion claymation from South Korea, RT 4:35. For those who are interested in the Korean language and culture for reasons of business, international exchange or friendship. The Arari Show is a series of short humorous animations for teaching elementary Korean expressions to viewers from other countries interested in Korean language and culture. The show is hosted by Mr Arari, a dynamic showman, who with a live studio audience introduces several points unique to Korea such as 'ondol', underfloor heating, 'supul calbi', charcoal-grilled meat cooked at the dining table and the tense situation at the D.M.Z. (the demilitarized zone at the border between North and South Korea). These and other scenes are depicted through meticulously hand made miniature sets and props giving an authentic feeling whilst keeping a light-hearted and humorous story line. User: spam_vigilante Jul 21, 2008 10:29 PM
Headline Tag: Animals Rating: Amazing Hits: 96 Comments: 3 The Bears. The Bears. A National Wildlife Federation presentation, RT 39:08. The wide range of bruin habitat and diet is a never-ending source of natural wonder and amazement. User: spam_vigilante Jul 21, 2008 5:17 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 319 Comments: 2 Hiroshima Hiroshima BBC Documentary from 2003, RT 1:29:04. Landmark dramadoc telling the story of the atomic bomb and its impact on the people of Hiroshima. The film mixes testimony, archive, CGI and full-scale reconstruction to communicate the detailed content and context of this terrible event. Screened in 30 other countries around the world on the 60th anniversary. User: spam_vigilante Jul 21, 2008 4:06 AM
Headline Tag: Cinema Rating: Amazing Hits: 1054 Comments: 5 Stanley Kubrick's Boxes Stanley Kubrick's Boxes Two years after Kubrick's death, Jon Ronson was invited to the director's estate to explore the hundreds of boxes the legendary film director had collected during his decades at Childwick Manor in Hertfordshire. He's been returning ever since, and the story of Kubrick and the archive, now housed at University of the Arts London, is revealed in this fascinating documentary. User: spam_vigilante Jul 21, 2008 3:20 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Television Rating: No Votes Hits: 17 Comments: 1 MIssion HIll: Pilot Episode MIssion HIll: Pilot Episode The pilot episode of Mission Hill, containing the original score and not that crappy version of songs on the DVD. RT 21:13. User: spam_vigilante Jul 20, 2008 10:14 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 797 Comments: 4 Feist on Sesame Street: 1 2 3 4 Feist on Sesame Street: 1 2 3 4 Feist's appearance in Sesame Street's 39th season. A natural fit. User: spam_vigilante Jul 20, 2008 1:42 PM
Headline Tag: Animals Rating: Amazing Hits: 220 Comments: 0 Dolphins Dolphins Narrated by Pierce Brosnan and featuring a soundtrack with songs and music from multi Grammy Award winner Sting. Imagine swimming alongside some of the most graceful and extraordinary creatures on earth - wild dolphins. Dive in with two scientists studying these elusive animals in the crystalline waters of the Bahamas and wind-swept seas of Patagonia. User: spam_vigilante Jul 20, 2008 4:37 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Farts and Poop Rating: Bad Hits: 43 Comments: 1 Cakefarts Cakefarts Totally NSFW. What could be more pleasurable that squatting on a nice chocolate cake and letting loose with some flatulence? User: spam_vigilante Jul 20, 2008 4:29 AM
Headline Tag: Music Rating: Amazing Hits: 805 Comments: 1 Beaker: Ode to Joy Beaker: Ode to Joy Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meeeeeeeeeep Meep-Meep User: spam_vigilante Jul 19, 2008 1:26 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 141 Comments: 0 Looney Tunes: Mouse Wreckers Looney Tunes: Mouse Wreckers Hubie and Bertie terrorize Claude Cat in this 1948 short. RT 6:55. User: spam_vigilante Jul 19, 2008 11:43 AM
Headline Tag: Cinema Rating: Good Hits: 144 Comments: 0 Coral Reef Adventure Coral Reef Adventure Highest grossing documentary of 2003, with the music of Crosby, Stills & Nash, RT 46:17. Follows the real-life expedition of ocean explorers and underwater filmmakers Howard and Michele Hall. The Halls guide us to the islands and sun-drenched waters of the South Pacific to document, in the biggest and best film format that exists, the health and beauty of coral reefs. On the giant screen, you’ll feel like you’re diving and exploring right alongside them. User: spam_vigilante Jul 19, 2008 5:29 AM
Headline Tag: Animals Rating: Amazing Hits: 203 Comments: 1 The Living Sea The Living Sea Narrated by Meryl Streep and features songs and music by Sting, RT 39:33. Explore a remarkable world that covers seven-tenths of the world's surface, yet few people ever see up close, in this Academy Award-nominated short created for IMAX screens. From Canada's Bay of Fundy and kelp fields off the California coast to strange creatures living thousands of feet below the surface, amazing underwater images celebrate the world's seas. User: spam_vigilante Jul 19, 2008 5:17 AM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 366 Comments: 0 When Dinosaurs Roamed America When Dinosaurs Roamed America A two hour American television program (produced in the style of a traditional nature documentary) that first aired on Discovery Channel in 2001. It was directed by Pierre de Lespinois and narrated by actor John Goodman. The dinosaurs were designed by Paleo-artist and art director Mark Dubeau, who is also noted for creating dinosaurs on a myriad of other Discovery Channel and National Geographic specials. The dinosaur animation was directed by noted animator Don Waller (RoboCop, King Kong) at Meteor Studios, in Montreal, Canada. User: spam_vigilante Jul 18, 2008 7:08 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 332 Comments: 0 NOVA scienceNOW: Space Storms NOVA scienceNOW: Space Storms Behind the dazzling display of the aurora borealis are space storms that could turn the lights off here on Earth. See the 10-minute broadcast segment via QuickTime and Windows Media. User: spam_vigilante Jul 18, 2008 7:05 PM
Headline Tag: Animals Rating: Amazing Hits: 151 Comments: 0 NOVA scienceNOW: Of Mice and Memory NOVA scienceNOW: Of Mice and Memory Aired on PBS June 25, 2008. Mice placed in enriched environments can recover lost memories, giving hope to those who study Alzheimer's. See the 12-minute broadcast segment via QuickTime or Windows Media. User: spam_vigilante Jul 18, 2008 4:21 AM
 
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