BBC - Sir Alex Ferguson: Secrets of Success (2015) 720p HDTV x264-CHAMPiONS
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 1853 Kbps | 59mn 46s | Audio: English AC3 384 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 976 MiB
Genre:Documentary
Documentary about Sir Alex Ferguson's development of Manchester United into a multimillion-pound global business whilst attaining countless trophies along the way.
National Geographic - Lioness in Exile (2015) 720p HDTV x264-SQUEAK
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2502 Kbps | 44mn 59s | Audio: English AC3 384 kbps, 6 channels | Subs: None | 948 MiB
Genre:Documentary
She’s a hunter, killer, sister, but above all a selfless mother. Soon after you meet Manyari, queen of her pride, she does something both unusual and bold. She leaves the sanctuary of her family with her young cubs and takes them on a dangerous odyssey. She makes a bid to escape because two young bloods are sniffing around and, if they take over the pride, they will kill her cubs. Out in the wilderness, away from the protection of the pride male and without her sister to help her hunt, Manyari is forced to take huge risks. When her cubs are starving they wander back dangerously close to the young princes; as Manyari fights for her cubs’ very survival, her every move is shadowed by the marauding nomads. They know she’s out there and they want her back. Witness the terrifying hazards this mother takes to give her cubs a few more precious months of life.
National Geographic - Queen Elephant (2014) 720p HDTV x264-MVGroup
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MP4/AVC @ 3014 Kbps | 43mn 59s | Audio: English AAC 160 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 1000 MiB
Genre:Documentary
For African elephants, survival depends on successful migration to and from their ancestral feeding grounds each year. They must constantly follow the rhythms of the seasons, treading the millennia-old paths to reliable sources of food and water—and away from dangerous predators. During the dry season of late summer and autumn, elephants must risk the journey toward water and the promise of continued survival for the herd. Crisscrossing the continent from watering hole to watering hole, the herd can only survive if its leader remembers the exact location of each crucial pit stop. This responsibility falls to the matriarch of each elephant herd: the eldest female has a long memory, coupled with a lifetime of honing her instinctual awareness of the landscape around her. After the tragic death of her mother, the old elephant matriarch, Mensah must now take her young calf and the herd to safety. She is their final hope and must lead them into their ancient feeding grounds.
BBC - Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death (2015) 720p HDTV x264-MVGroup
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 1864 Kbps | 1h 29mn | Audio: English AAC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English | 1.26 GiB
Genre:Documentary
Ted Hughes is widely recognised as one of Britain's greatest poets. He is also one of the most controversial. The Heathcliff of poetry who 'attracted more scandal than any other literary figure with the exception of Lord Byron' as one contributor notes. Now, for the first time, the events of his life and the breadth and influence of his poetry are the focus of a major documentary. Featuring the first television interview with Frieda Hughes - poet, artist and daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Path - alongside a rich seam of testimony from family members, friends, fellow poets and writers, this film will illuminate one of the 20th century's most influential cultural figures and show how his compelling life story shaped his vision as a poet. Hughes's significance is incontrovertible, yet so often during his lifetime, attention was focused on the scandalous events in his personal life. Love and work collided with tragic consequences during his marriage to Sylvia Plath. When she committed suicide, he was forced to weather a storm of speculation and accusation over her death, which gathered momentum after Assia Wevill, his lover, also killed herself.
Channel 4 - My Transgender Kid (2015) 720p HDTV x264-MVGroup
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MP4/AVC @ 3049 Kbps | 47mn 18s | Audio: English AAC 159 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 1.06 GiB
Genre:Documentary
Documentary about some of the youngest transgender people in Britain and the US as they and their families make life-changing decisions, beginning with two ordinary British families as they attempt to deal with the challenges of having a seven-year-old child who was born in the wrong gender. The parents are faced with difficult decisions, including whether to use `he' or `she' pronouns, and if they should let their children go to school with their new identity and risk bullying and judgement.
BBC An Dubhlan - Sanjeev Kohli Does Gaelic (2015) PDTV x264-MVGroup
PDTV | 832x468 | .MKV/AVC @ 1449 Kbps | 58mn 31s | Audio: English AAC 125 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English | 672 MiB
Genre:Documentary
Sanjeev Kohli of Still Game fame has already proven he has the gift of the gab, but can the Scottish comedian, actor and writer turn his hand to Gaelic? Over the course of six months we'll watch as he is put through his paces in order to meet his self-imposed challenge: to present an entire music show live on BBC Radio nan Gaidheal. Along the way he'll have supporters and conspirators galore, from Mairi MacArthur, who will be his Gaelic teacher, to Gaelic comedienne Carina MacLeod and Radio nan Gaidheal funnyman Derek 'Pluto' Murray. But while it's all very well taking Gaelic classes in the big city, how will he cope in the real home of Gaelic, the Outer Hebrides? His quest will take him and the family on a Gaelic road trip to the Isle of Lewis, taking on some challenges along the way as he seeks to master the language. Will he crack it? Only time and a lot of hard work will tell, but language tips and laughs are guaranteed as Sanjeev sets out into a new Gaelic world.
The Sheik (2014) FESTiVAL DVDRiP X264-TASTE
DVDRip | 720x404 | .MKV/AVC @ 1091 Kbps | 1h 36mn | Audio: English AAC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 750 MiB
Genre:Documentary
Fidelis Cloer is a self-confessed war profiteer. In a career spanning two decades of global turmoil, he has supplied kings, presidents and the odd dictator or two with the finest luxury armored vehicles that money can buy. In his world, where security is a commodity that can be bought and sold, violence is to sales as the weather is to wheat futures. Always with an on eye on growth opportunities, Fidelis found 'The Perfect War' when the US invaded Iraq: it wasn't about selling a dozen cars, or even a hundred, it was a thousand car war where security would become the ultimate product. Driving into Baghdad after it fell to American troops, he remarked, "This is the end of the beginning of the war," and so began his darkly comedic drive down the road to opportunity. Before the war, when clients were concerned with bullets and not bombs, his sales mantra was "I sell a good feeling": a sense of safety, security and confidence in superior German engineering that came across like a VW commercial gone wrong.
BBC - Our World: A Bumpy Road to Rio (2015) 720p HDTV x264-MVGroup
HDTV | 1280x660 | .MKV/AVC @ 3170 Kbps | 23mn 15s | Audio: English AAC 122 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English | 559 MiB
Genre:Documentary
Rio de Janeiro is gearing up for its big year. The famous Brazilian city will host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Elite disabled athletes from across the world will gather for what the organisers say will be the biggest Paralympics ever - and the city is being prepared to welcome them. But what is everyday life like in Rio for disabled people - and how will these Paralympic preparations affect them? The BBC's Disability Affairs Correspondent Nikki Fox travels to Rio to find out for Our World.
BBC Storyville - Bulletproof Salesman (2008) PDTV XviD MP3-MVGroup
PDTV | 640x352 | .AVI/XviD @ 1542 Kbps | 58mn 6s | Audio: English MP3 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 700 MiB
Genre:Documentary
Fidelis Cloer is a self-confessed war profiteer. In a career spanning two decades of global turmoil, he has supplied kings, presidents and the odd dictator or two with the finest luxury armored vehicles that money can buy. In his world, where security is a commodity that can be bought and sold, violence is to sales as the weather is to wheat futures. Always with an on eye on growth opportunities, Fidelis found 'The Perfect War' when the US invaded Iraq: it wasn't about selling a dozen cars, or even a hundred, it was a thousand car war where security would become the ultimate product. Driving into Baghdad after it fell to American troops, he remarked, "This is the end of the beginning of the war," and so began his darkly comedic drive down the road to opportunity. Before the war, when clients were concerned with bullets and not bombs, his sales mantra was "I sell a good feeling": a sense of safety, security and confidence in superior German engineering that came across like a VW commercial gone wrong.
NFB - The Van Doos in Afghanistan (2011) 720p HDTV x264-MVGroup
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 3073 Kbps | 43mn 55s | Audio: English AC3 384 kbps, 6 channels | Subs: None | 1.08 GiB
Genre:Documentary
Directed by Claude Guilmain and produced by Anne-Marie Rocher, this documentary propels us into the heart of the action in Afghanistan, where members of the Royal 22e Regiment, a mechanized brigade group based in CFB Valcartier and nicknamed the Van Doos, are serving in the field. We meet soldiers named Guillemette, Augar and Perreault on the ground, where they talk with great candour about their experience in the military. The Van Doos in Afghanistan is a rare portrait of soldiers who, far too often, remain nameless.
6ixty Foot Films - Storm Surfers (2012) 720p HDTV x264-MVGroup
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 4000 Kbps | 1h 34mn | Audio: English AC3 384 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English | 2.86 GiB
Genre:Documentary
STORM SURFERS 3D is an epic, character-driven adventure documentary following two best friends on their quest to hunt down and ride the biggest and most dangerous waves in Australia. Aussie tow-surfing legend Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time world champion Tom Carroll enlist the help of surf forecaster Ben Matson and together they track and chase giant storms across the Great Southern Ocean. Braving enormous waves, freezing conditions and near-death experiences, the film follows all of Ross, Tom and Ben’s adventures over the 2011 winter big-wave season, all in stunning 3D. Along the way they join forces with big wave chargers Paul Morgan, Mark Mathews and Paul ‘Antman’ Paterson to conquer waves in Western Australia, on the east coast and in Tasmania, with a special appearance by the greatest surfer of all time, Kelly Slater. The holy grail for this team of big wave hunters is to discover and ride new waves that have never been surfed. This year, Ross, Tom and Ben get the chance of a lifetime when they embark on the biggest and most dangerous mission of their lives to a wave that has never been ridden, 75km from land.
BBC - The First Master Chef: Michel Roux on Escoffier (2012) 720p WEB-DL x264 AAC-MVGroup
WEB-DL | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2564 Kbps | 58mn 52s | Audio: English AAC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 1.11 GiB
Genre:Documentary
Michel Roux Jr explores the life and influence of his great culinary hero, Georges Auguste Escoffier - the man who turned eating into dining. The first great restaurant chef, Escoffier established restaurants in grand hotels all over the world and in these centres of luxury and decadence the world's most glamorous figures of the day would mix - actresses and princes, duchesses and opera singers. Catering to this international jet set, Escoffier produced fabulous dishes that combined luxury and theatricality, elevating restaurant food to an art form. Escoffier was born the humble son of a Provencal blacksmith, but at 13 began working in a restaurant kitchen. In the 19th century they were infernal, coal-fired, unventilated places and chefs had a shorter life expectancy than even coal miners. As Escoffier worked his way up the career ladder, he dedicated himself to improving the lot of his staff - from banning alcohol and swearing in his kitchens to buying smart clothes for young chefs who couldn't afford them.
BBC - The Foodbank: Britain's Hidden Hunger (2015) 720p HDTV x264-C4TV
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2947 Kbps | 57mn 59s | Audio: English AAC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 1.19 GiB
Genre:Documentary
Programme following the stories of some of the people who receive help from Scotland's busiest food bank in Dundee.
ABC - The Cambodian Space Project (2015) PDTV x264-CBFM
PDTV | 718x404 | .MP4/AVC @ 1391 Kbps | 58mn 49s | Audio: English AAC 153 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 652 MiB
Genre:Documentary
Australian musician Julien Poulson and Cambodian singer Srey Thy fell in love and formed The Cambodian Space Project. This intimate portrait of cross-cultural romance is set to the driving beat of Cambodian rock.
PBS - NOVA: Secrets of Noah's Ark (2015) 720p HDTV x264-DHD
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2795 Kbps | 53mn 6s | Audio: English AC3 384 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 1.20 GiB
Genre:Documentary
In 1948, a British pilot serving in Iraq acquired a clay tablet with an intriguing, 3,700 year-old inscription. The ancient writing tells the story of how the god Enki warns a Sumerian king named Atram-Hasis of a future flood that will destroy mankind. Enki gives him instructions for building a boat to save his family and livestock. If that sounds like a familiar tale, it's because this was one of several ancient flood traditions that, centuries later, would inspire the biblical story of Noah. But the tablet's inscription describes a boat very different from the traditional image of the Ark--it's said to be circular and made of reeds. Is this nothing more than a fanciful myth? Or could such a reed boat have carried Atram-Hasis' family of more than one hundred and his many animals? Join NOVA as a team of historians and expert boat builders investigates this fascinating flood legend and sets out to rebuild a tantalizing, ancient forerunner of the Ark.
BBC - 4000 Year Old Cold Case The Body in the Bog (2013)
HDTV | 1280 x 720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2549 Kbps | 58mn 45s | Audio: English AAC 192 kbps, 2 channels | 1.05 GB
Genre: Documentary
Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a 4,000-year-old body that was found preserved in an Irish peat bog, one of hundreds of bodies found mummified in the boglands of Northern Europe.
BBC - We Want Our Country Back (2015) 720p HDTV x264-C4TV
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2705 Kbps | 56mn 57s | Audio: English AAC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 1.08 GiB
Genre:Documentary
Documentary about Britain First, an emerging name in far right politics. Deputy leader Jayda Fransen and leader Paul Golding embark on a public national campaign to garner support.
Channel 4 - Rangbhoomi (2013) 720p HDTV x264-MVGroup
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2414 Kbps | 1h 26mn | Audio: English AAC 117 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English | 1.55 GiB
Genre:Documentary
Director Kamal Swaroop introduces this screening of his experimental documentary. The film is a lyrical journey through the iconic ghats, narrow lanes and forgotten spaces of the holy city of Varanasi, where Swaroop tries to find traces of film-maker DG Phalke's life. Known as the father of Indian cinema, Phalke shot his first film in 1913. His movies were successful, but later in life he found himself without backers. Becoming increasingly marginalised, impoverished and disillusioned with the world of cinema, Phalke went to live in Varanasi, where he returned to the theatre and wrote the semi-autobiographical play Rangbhoomi. Swaroop brings Phalke's story alive through the vibrant palette of sounds, sights and characters so typical of the holiest of the seven sacred cities to Hinduism and Jainism.
CBC - The Nature of Things: For the Love of Elephants (2010) 720p HDTV x264-aAF
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 6298 Kbps | 44mn 17s | Audio: English AC3 384 kbps, 6 channels | Subs: None | 2.11 GiB
Genre:Documentary
For the Love of Elephants is an intimate portrait of an amazing elephant-human bond that develops at an elephant rehabilitation centre near Nairobi, Kenya. The film takes viewers inside the emotional world of young, orphaned African elephants and their compassionate keepers, Edwin, Mishak, and Abdi. Never far from their charge are the centre's founder, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, and her daughter Angela, who manages the Sheldrick Trust. Through hard work, love and dedication, this expert team create a unique human-elephant family, and nurture the orphaned elephants back to health.
Fighting for a Generation: 20 Years of the UFC (2013) BRRip XviD MP3-RARBG
BRRip | 720x400 | .AVI/XviD @ 1600 Kbps | 1h 30mn | Audio: English MP3 192 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 1.14 GiB
Genre:Documentary
Fighting for a Generation: 20 Years of the UFC is an oral and visual documentary on the two decade rise of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Over 60 interviews were conducted over a 4 month period to let the viewer truly understand how the UFC has become what it is today. From the early days, dealing with political pressure and financial hardships to successfully building a worldwide brand, the UFC has gone through struggles that no other sports franchise has faced only to come out on the winning end. With the 20 year anniversary of UFC 1 occurring in November 2013, the UFC wanted to celebrate in a way that would give the fans an inside look at the meteoric rise of one of the top sports franchises in the world.