Documentaries worth watching. Post 'em here

[Albert Shagnastier]

^Not at all.
Maybe I didn't explain it well enough. What I meant was is that you don't have to download a load of software (which is usually full of shit) to get the documentary if you use an online conversion service as you only download the movie file and not any software or .exe files etc.

Keepvid and cc converter both use this format.

[Bobcock]

^Cheers...... I'm obviously careful what I download, just wanted to make sure

[patsycat]

Nuff said

[PAG]

"Building Burma's Death Railway". This from the BBC website:

"The brutal use of British prisoners of war by the Japanese to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma in 1943 was one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War. For the first time in 70 years, British POWs and their Japanese captors, many now in their nineties, open their hearts to tell the story of what really happened on the 'Death Railway'. Alongside the extraordinary experiences and stories of survival told by the British, their Japanese guards tell of different horrors of war, some never disclosed before.

Exploring how they have survived the terrible memories, this is an often inspiring story that many of these men have waited a long time to tell. What emerges is a warm and emotional journey through the lives of men from different sides reflecting on a terrible event that still haunts them."

Download here:

https://eztv.it/ep/53819/building-bu...-hdtv-mvgroup/

[chassamui]

Although the British POW contingent were the largest it is worth pointing out ....

Forced labour was used in its construction. About 180,000 Asian civilian labourers (mainly romusha) and 60,000 Allied prisoners of war (POWs) worked on the railway. Of these, around 90,000 Asian civilian labourers and 12,399 Allied POWs died as a direct result of the project. The dead POWs included 6,318 British personnel, 2,815 Australians, 2,490 Dutch, about 356 Americans, and about 20 POWs from other British Commonwealth countries (the Indian Empire, New Zealand and Canada)

An excellent link anyway.

[Latindancer]

Romusha

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Romusha (労務者 Rōmusha?, "laborer") were forced laborers during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia in World War II. The U.S. Library of Congress estimates that in Java, between four to 10 million romusha were forced to work by the Japanese military.[1] About 270,000 of these Javanese laborers were sent to other Japanese-held areas in South East Asia. However, only 52,000 were repatriated to Java.
The Japanese military made very extensive use of such forced labor during the construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway during 1942-43 and the Pakan Baroe Railway on Sumatra in 1943-45.[2] The death rate among romusha, from atrocities, starvation-diet and disease far outstripped the death rate among Allied prisoners of war. About half the forced laborers engaged on the railroad construction died.


I'd never heard the term till now.

[AsGoodAsItGets]

Guess he's back...

BBC Louis Theroux's LA Stories Episode 1

Los Angeles is home to more than a quarter of a million dogs from the pampered pooches of Beverley Hills to the pit bull terriers of the projects. In the first programme of his new series, Louis Theroux's LA Stories, Louis enters the bizarre world of LA's dogs, meeting the characters whose lives revolve around the city's huge canine population.

In the toughest neighbourhoods of South LA he has a terrifying encounter with a weaponised dog, trained to attack on command, and goes on patrol with Dogman, whose mission is to rescue some of the thousands of stray and feral pit bulls roaming the streets.

At the city's biggest animal shelter, Louis meets the hard-pressed staff whose heart-breaking job includes euthanising thousands of unwanted dogs every year. But he also encounters the middle-class Americans who adopt some of these delinquent dogs and the colourful dog training gurus who claim to be able to take the ghetto out of the dog once the dog has been rescued from the streets.

http://kickass.to/documentary-su-lou...-t8915053.html


I enjoyed it but if you watch a lot of animal stuff on TV it might not be so interesting. Definitely no real shocking stuff here. just a part of American life.

[S Landreth]

I don’t know if it has been mentioned here before, because I don’t visit this thread often. But if you do have some time and would like to learn something you might want to watch “Years of Living Dangerously”.

The first weekly episode out of a nine part series can be viewed below, before it shows on Showtime April 13. If you don’t get Showtime and want to view the remaining shows just Google in “watch Years of Living Dangerously online for free”. The shows will usually show up on the net a day or two after the show has aired.

From Climatecrocks:

After a long period of development, James Cameron’s terrific and powerful mega-project on climate change, “Years of Living Dangerously”, opens today on Showtime.

The first hour installment of the 9 part series features glimpses of climate change impacts around the planet through the eyes of well known guides.

The series sets a dramatic, powerful urgent tone. The first episode takes the bull by the horns – crisscrossing the planet to take snapshots of climate impacts, and the processes behind them, through the eyes of those impacted.

Years of Living Dangerously - Showtime

[AsGoodAsItGets]

One million buried in mass graves on forbidden New York island


I just found this story and this old clip. I figure this is the best place to put it as it's a documentary style.

Most New Yorkers don’t even know it exists. But a million forgotten souls are buried in mass graves dug by convicts on a tiny, forbidden island east of the Bronx.
Since 1869, still-born babies, the homeless, the poor and the unclaimed have been stacked one upon the other, three coffins deep, on Hart Island.

Corpses are interned in great, anonymous trenches. There are no tombstones. Small white posts in the ground mark each 150 adult bodies. A thousand children and infants are buried together per grave.

It is one of the largest cemeteries in the United States. And the least visited.
The men doing the digging are convicts from Rikers Island, petty offenders tasked with carrying bodies to their final resting place.

Nearly 1,500 fresh corpses arrive each year, says visual artist Melinda Hunt, who heads the Hart Island Project, which campaigns to make the cemetery visible and accessible.

The authorities say nearly a million people have been buried here since 1869.
It is forbidden to film and photograph the uninhabited, windswept island. Visits must be authorized by the Department of Corrections, which runs the island.
First used as a cemetery in the Civil War, Hart Island has variously served as a training camp, a prison for captured Confederates, a workhouse, a mental asylum and even a Cold War missile base.

The only jetty is closed to the public, hemmed in by railings, barbed wire and spikes. Notice boards warn people to keep out.

- Records long inaccessible -
For years, records of who’s been buried where have been patchy and negotiating access has proved challenging.

Some have been lost, others burnt. Families sometimes cannot even find out if their loved ones were buried by the city.

“You have a right to know where a person is. It’s very important not to disappear people. It’s not an acceptable thing to do in any culture,” Hunt said.

The Department of Corrections says it doesn’t have the infrastructure to welcome visitors on an island where the buildings are dilapidated and abandoned.

Under pressure, however, the authorities have allowed a few visits since 2007, albeit within a gazebo far from the graves.

“You don’t see anything,” said Elaine Joseph, a 59-year-old nurse whose baby daughter died at five days old in 1978.

“They check your ID, and ask you to hand over your cell phone, any electronic equipment and they put it in an envelope and lock it and then you get to the island, they ask for your ID again.

“They treat you as a visitor of an inmate,” she said.

In November, a small group of women who threatened to bring a complaint were given permission to visit specific grave sites.

Joseph became the first to go on March 14.

Once there, she broke down in tears.

“I can’t say I found closure. When you lose a child, there really is never closure. There is a piece of you that is gone,” she said.

“I did find solace in that there was water surrounding it and there was a lovely view.”

She was even allowed to take a photograph.

Laurie Grant, a 61-year-old doctor who gave birth to a still-born daughter in 1993, hopes to be the next.

But on March 28, she waited in vain in the rain on the jetty.
Due to unwillingness or miscommunication, those who were supposed to ferry her across the water left before she even arrived.

- Public cemetery closed to public -
Over the years, Hunt said she has lost track of all the families she has tried to help, though estimates the number is at least 500.

Most were Americans, but there have been others from France, the Netherlands and Poland, and one Irish woman looking for a grandfather.
The Hart Island Project has so far managed to list more than 60,000 burials in the database.

A bill has been introduced to the city council seeking to transfer the island to the parks administration, but has not been taken up yet.

Joseph dreams of being able to return as often as she wants to what she calls “a public cemetery that the public is not allowed to visit.”

She also dreams of flowers and a bench to honor her baby. “If I can put a marker on a bench, I’ll be happy,” she said.

One million buried in mass graves on forbidden New York island | The Raw Story



An old news story on the Island...

[boloa]

Guess he's back...

BBC Louis Theroux's LA Stories Episode 1



http://kickass.to/documentary-su-lou...-t8915053.html

Download links for the other 2

The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient bittorrent site

[Albert Shagnastier]

[hojopotatoes]

Louis Theroux LA stories

#2 Edge of Life

He looks into people facing death or potentially life in comas in hospitals. Amazingly, in a one in a million chance of not recovering, a man recovers from a coma during his investigation.

http://kickass.to/bbc-louis-therouxs...-t8968043.html



#3 Among the Sex Offenders

Louis looks into the lives of sex offenders on parole.

http://kickass.to/bbc-louis-therouxs...-t8968042.html




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[hojopotatoes]

Welfare 1975 PBS Documentary



http://kickass.to/pbs-welfare-1of2-x...-t8951618.html

http://kickass.to/pbs-welfare-2of2-x...-t8955463.html



Also at Demoniod

[hojopotatoes]

Some audio to listen to.

Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States



http://kickass.to/howard-zinn-a-peop...-t5749786.html


Howard Zinn - Artists in Time of War



http://kickass.to/howard-zinn-artist...-t5736699.html





Another British program on health and diet.

Youtube:



Torrent:

http://kickass.to/50-shocking-facts-...-t8532787.html

[Albert Shagnastier]

[klong toey]

Cambodia’s Gambling Boom



We all know how much Thai's like a flutter seems that the Vietnamese maybe after the number 1 spot.
You can now gamble you life for $1000 dollars if you lose you are arrested and imprisoned until your family across the border pay off the debt.
There’s a casino construction boom going on across Asia, and nowhere is it more intense than in Cambodia, where more than 25 have been built in the last 15 years. Ed Butler reports from Bavet on the border with Vietnam, where a string of casinos now cater exclusively to Vietnamese gamblers, who are given strong incentives to cross into Cambodia to chance their arm. Hundreds come every day. But do they understand the risks, financial and personal? We hear stories of imprisonment, beatings and severe gambling addiction.
BBC World Service - Assignment , Cambodia

[PAG]

I had a three part series, "Death Comes To Pemberley" on file, ready to watch when things quietened down. It's a well acted (several notables, including Penelope Keith, Trevor Eve etc) and a fairly typical good period drama (in this case, 18th Century).

That aside, what I did recognise, is that much of the filming had been done at Chatsworth, the ancentral home of the Dukes of Devonshire (the house is actually in Derbyshire), which brought to mind an interesting three part documentary of Chatsworth that I'd seen some time ago. Recommended.

The exterior and interior shots of "Death etc", really bring home the oppulence of Chatsworth, and the documentary itself details the meticulous attention to detail that this and other national treasures need to survive.

The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient bittorrent site

I would also recommend the "Death Comes To Pemberley" series:

The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient bittorrent site

[Breaking News]

Secrets of the Vatican

A 2014 Frontline PBS documentary which looks at the vaticans scandals of the past century and their connections to the today's vatican. I'm sure it won't shock anyone as most of the information in it is out there ( And everyone knows priests are homos) but there are some interesting parts in it. It's too bad that the church's believers were and are willing to let horrible crimes go ignored. That's one sick, weak or selfish bunch of followers, truly blind and dumb sheep. At the end you will still be wondering if change has indeed come to the Catholic church or whether this new pope is just a flash in the pan.

Available on youtube or via kickass

[Merrimack]

[thailazer]

Seeds of death.... Lot's of PhD types and good information on a money driven world....

[Merrimack]

[rebbu]

[xanax]

I enjoyed this one;
Game Over: Kasparov And The Machine XviD (download torrent) - TPB

the story of the 1997 re match between Chess star Gary Kasparov and the IMB chess computer deep blue.

[blue]

^
I'l watch that later thanks -
bloody computers ruined chess- play a series of games against strong one and it puts you off for life ,they play boring too.

Might give this one a try too, recent bbc documentary about mushrooms -weird things indeed

BBC The Magic of Mushrooms 720p x264 AAC HDTV (download torrent) - TPB

[xanax]

IBM screwed kasparov really, he should have insisted on more than one day to recover and though they promised him the computer logs they never gave them. Having said that he really did better than deep blue over the two games and they never let him have a re match. searching for Bobby Fisher is a good film if you like chess, as is the life of a king.