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PBS Frontline-A Death in Tehran.S28E04.WS-PDTV.XviD.Ekolb

Category: Documentary
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FRONTLINE: A Death in Tehran Aired: November 17, 2009 FRONTLINE investigates the life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol for those who want to keep the reform movement alive in Iran. At the height of the protests following Iran's controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Agha Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death filmed on a camera phone, then uploaded to the Web quickly became an international outrage, and Soltan became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hard-line government's hold on power. In A Death in Tehran, FRONTLINE revisits the events of last summer, shedding new light on Neda's life and death and the movement she helped inspire. FRONTLINE World Uganda's "Impenetrable Forest," home to half the world's population of Mountain Gorillas, is also a hotbed for a number of deadly diseases that cross the species barrier from animals to humans. Format : AVI Length : 465 MiB for 56mn 14s 280ms Codec : XviD Source : PDTV Language : English Subtitles : None Genre : Documentary Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 1 006 Kbps Aspect : 608 x 336 (1.810) at 29.970 fps Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 136 Kbps Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz Enjoy! Ekolb
Seeders: 39
Leeches: 9

A Death in Tehran-PBS FrontLine-November 17, 2009

Category: Documentary
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A Death in Tehran-PBS FrontLine-November 17, 2009 sdtv xvid 16x9 700kbps At the height of the protests following Iran's controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Agha Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death -- filmed on a camera phone, then uploaded to the Web -- quickly became an international outrage, and Soltan became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hard-line government's hold on power. In A Death in Tehran, FRONTLINE revisits the events of last summer, shedding new light on Neda's life and death and the movement she helped inspire. In response to the international outcry over Neda's death -- including President Obama's confirmation that he'd seen the "heartbreaking" video on YouTube -- the regime set about attempting to rewrite the story, pointing a finger at the CIA and outside agitators, the same forces they blamed for the mass street protests and allegations of vote rigging that led to the greatest upheaval in Iran since the revolution of 1979. FRONTLINE uncovers some video of Neda's killer -- a member of the Basij militia who'd been brought into Tehran by the regime's Revolutionary Guards to stamp out the "Green Revolution." A medical doctor in the crowd who had watched Neda die now watched as the crowd considered its own violence against the Basij militia member: "They started to discuss what to do with him," the doctor recalled. "They grabbed his wallet, took out his ID card and started shouting, 'He is a Basiji member; he is one of them,' and started swearing and cursing him, and he was begging for people not to harm him or kill him. ... They believed the police wouldn't do anything to him as the Basiji are really powerful and he would have easily have got away, so in all of the chaos they decided to release him." The Iranian government admits 11 protesters were killed on June 20, but doctors from three Tehran hospitals confirmed at least 34 deaths. Other bodies were buried by security forces without first being identified. In October, the regime tried to script the end of the story for Neda. But instead, Neda's mother made a very public stand. The government offered her financial help if she would blame Neda's death on opponents of the regime. All she had to do was to agree to call Neda a "martyr" for the Islamic Republic. But she refused, telling FRONTLINE: "Neda died for her country not so I could get a monthly income from the Martyr Foundation. If these officials say Neda was a martyr, why do they keep wiping off the word 'martyr' which people write in red on her gravestone?"
Seeders: 18
Leeches: 6

PBS MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour Broadcast on 1989-11-10 Berlin Wall History in the Making!

Category: News & Current Affairs
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The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour originally broadcast on November 10, 1989* as the Berlin Wall came down! (*approximate date based on events reported) Brought to you from the archives of TooleMan TV Includes: Extended reports from Berlin and Moscow A newsmaker interview with Secretary of State James Baker Analysis by Nikolai Shishlin of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, West German Ambassador Jurgen Ruhfus, Former NATO Commander General Bernard Rogers, Former US Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman, and former Undersecretary of State George Ball An essay on the Berlin events by Roger Rosenblatt
Seeders: 10
Leeches: 4

PBS-How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin (2009).WS-PDTV.XviD.Ekolb

Category: Documentary
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How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin (2009) This is the unknown story of how the Beatles inspired a revolution that helped to destroy the communist system. Leslie Woodhead first met the Beatles in 1962 when he worked on a film in the Liverpool Cavern Club before the world had heard of the Fab Four. Twenty-five years later, when Woodhead began to make films in the Soviet Union, he became aware of how the Beatles legend had soaked into the lives of a generation of Soviet kids -- even though they were barred from playing "Back in the USSR." Now he has been on a journey to meet the Soviet Beatles generation and to discover how the Fab Four changed their lives. Featuring a bizarre collection of Beatles tribute bands, the film tracks down the stories of how the Cold War was won with music as much as with nuclear missiles. Format : AVI Length : 465 MiB for 55mn 27s 864ms Codec : XviD Source : PDTV Language : English/Russian Subtitles : English Hardcoded Genre : Documentary Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 1 035 Kbps Aspect : 608 x 336 (1.810) at 29.970 fps Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 122 Kbps Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz Enjoy! Ekolb
Seeders: 25
Leeches: 5

PBS POV-The Way We Get By.Nov 11, 2009.WS-PDTV.XviD.Ekolb

Category: Documentary
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The Way We Get By Premiere Date: November 11, 2009 Synopsis On call 24 hours a day for the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greeting over 900,000 American troops at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine. The Way We Get By is an intimate look at three of these greeters as they confront the universal losses that come with aging and rediscover their reason for living. Bill Knight, Jerry Mundy and Joan Gaudet find the strength to overcome their personal battles and transform their lives through service. This inspirational and surprising story shatters the stereotypes of today's senior citizens as the greeters redefine the meaning of community. A co-production of Dungby Productions and ITVS in association with WGBH and Maine Public Broadcasting Network (MPBN) with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Format : AVI Length : 699 MiB for 1h 26mn 22s 182ms Codec : XviD Source : PDTV Language : English US Subtitles : None Genre : Documentary Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 984 Kbps Aspect : 608 x 336 (1.810) at 29.970 fps Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 133 Kbps Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz Enjoy! Ekolb
Seeders: 0
Leeches: 0

Bill Moyers - The Public Mind (1989) Pt3 Illusions of News

Category: Documentary
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Bill Moyers "The Public Mind: Image and Reality in America" (1989) Part Three: "Illusions of News" PBS broadcast -> VHS -> Xvid/MP3 Bill Moyers followed his successful "The Power of Myth" and "The World of Ideas" series with a four-part overview of "image and reality in America." The third part of the series, "Illusions of News," is particularly powerful in its discussion of the news media and how it serves the purposes of the powerful. Much of what is revealed in this program, now 20 years old, still holds true today. Beginning with the assertion that the "market determines the news," Moyers interviews various media critics (including authors Ben Bagdikian and Todd Gitlin), and personalities (Lesley Stahl of CBS News and Fred Friendly) to determine the extent of the problem. While the idea of news as entertainment is fairly old hat, Moyers reveals that television news is now the victim of its own showmanship. Politicians have discovered the power of the image, and no longer bother with issues--whether the news teams want them or not. TV news is now at the mercy of Presidents and other politicians who decide exactly what they want the public to see. This is electronic journalism at its most meaningful, made even more compelling by host Moyers, who has the honesty to question the apparatus which he freely admits provides his own bread and butter. The other three programs in the series are: Consuming Images, Leading Questions, and The Truth About Lies. If you have copies of the program, please share them.
Seeders: 5
Leeches: 7

Interview: David Sirota-Now On PBS-11 6 09

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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What do Tuesday's election results say about America's future? Only one year after a historic election rerouted the course of America's political culture, do the 2009 election results show momentum swinging in the opposite direction? This week, NOW's David Brancaccio talks to political author and columnist David Sirota about populist anger, the Obama administration's successes and failures, and how this week's election results foreshadow the state of politics in 2010. sdtv xvid 16x9 700kbps
Seeders: 1
Leeches: 3

PBS Independent Lens-POWER PATHS.Nov 3, 2009.WS-PDTV.XviD.Ekolb

Category: Documentary
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POWER PATHS November 3, 2009 on PBS POWER PATHS offers a unique glimpse into the global energy crisis from the perspective of a culture pledged to protect the planet, historically exploited by corporate interests and neglected by public policy makers. The film follows an intertribal coalition as they fight to transform their local economies by replacing coal mines and smog-belching power plants with renewable energy technologies. This transition would honor their heritage and support future generations by protecting their sacred land, providing electricity to their homes and creating jobs for their communities. Their story is a parable for our time, when the planet as a whole hungers for alternatives to fossil fuels. For environmental trailblazers, it’s proof that going green is not only possible—it’s the only choice we have. The POWER PATHS story begins in the 1960s, when two massive coal mines open on Navajo and Hopi reservations in Arizona. Between them, they produce enough coal to satisfy the unquenchable energy thirsts of Phoenix, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. They also comprise the single largest strip-mining complex in the world. For more than 30 years, the mines—and the Mohave Generating Station they supply—scar sacred native land, drain the natural aquifers and pollute the Southwestern skies. Meanwhile, beneath the high-tension power lines that carry electricity to the neon-saturated Vegas Strip, Native American reservation dwellers have no electricity or running water. Sickened by the economic disparity and the mounting toll on their land and health, some Navajo and Hopi tribe members begin pressuring their tribal governments not to renew the mining leases, but to no avail. As a result, a handful of grassroots organizers from both tribes join forces with The Sierra Club, the Grand Canyon Trust and the National Parks and Conservation Association to fight back. Calling themselves the Just Transition Coalition, they take on wealthy and entrenched adversaries from Peabody to Southern California Edison. They succeed in closing the power plant (and subsequently the mines) in 2005. But the ecological and moral victory comes at a cost: About half of the adults on the reservations had worked for the mines, and are now unemployed. Undeterred, the Just Transition Coalition shifts gears and heads for California, where they win a legal battle to use the shuttered Mohave plant’s cap-and-trade pollution credits to finance investment in solar panels and wind turbines for their reservations. In one scene, a Navajo mother screws a light bulb into a kitchen socket for the first time and sees it light up, enabling her children to stop depending on sunlight or dangerous kerosene lanterns in order to do their homework. She weeps in relief and gratitude. Today, more tribes are seeking investments and partnerships to create green-energy economies on the reservation, with hopes that one day, renewable energy will replace casinos as a primary means for economic development and tribal self-sufficiency. As the nation at large struggles to disengage itself from the chains of a fossil-fuel-based economy, POWER PATHS signals cause for hope that an alternative is not somewhere in the future, but possible right now. And Native Americans are leading the way. Update In June 2009, the 21st Navajo Nation Council voted 62 to 1 to establish a Navajo Green Economy Commission, according to the Sierra Club. The legislation, which is designed to take advantage of federal stimulus funds for green jobs, is intended to stimulate the economy by developing a sustainable energy infrastructure on the Navajo reservation. Format : AVI Length : 465 MiB for 56mn 32s 25ms Codec : XviD Source : PDTV Language : English Subtitles : None Genre : Documentary Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 1 000 Kbps Aspect : 608 x 336 (1.810) at 29.970 fps Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 135 Kbps Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz Enjoy! Ekolb
Seeders: 0
Leeches: 0

PBS Independent Lens-Journals of a Wily School.Oct 27, 2009.WS-PDTV.XviD.Ekolb

Category: Documentary
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Episode: Journals of a Wily School Aired: Oct 27, 2009 “In childhood when we would play thieves and police, I would always be the thief. Being a thief must have become a habit, and now I’ve become a real one!” —Azad Jalaluddin, pickpocket On the hot and crowded streets of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), three thousand pickpockets ply their trade every day, three hundred of them circulating through police custody at any given time. JOURNALS OF A WILY SCHOOL takes viewers inside the world of these petty thieves and the detectives who doggedly pursue them, day in and day out. With unprecedented access, first-time director Sudeshna Bose follows a young and talented pickpocket named Azad Jalaluddin, revealing in cinema verité style the many layers of his life. The eldest of five children, the 22-year-old lives with his family. While his sisters go to school and his father works in the wholesale fish trade, Azad spends his days picking pockets, using drugs and binging on Bollywood films. His mystified father voices frustration over the wayward son who fancies himself a don and compares himself to the stars of the big screen. Azad speaks candidly about his profession, seemingly delighted to have a film crew following him about his day. He happily shares the tricks of his trade, which in Kolkata have been elevated to an art form. To hone his craft, Azad attends an unusual school where a master pickpocket leads his attentive disciples through a series of challenges. In one, they must reach their hands into a bucket of water and retrieve a coin without creating ripples. In another, the students must carefully use a razor blade to slit a cloth wrapped around a melon, without cutting the melon’s smooth skin. Although a thief, Azad maintains an ethical stance in certain areas. As a matter of course, he returns wallets to their rightful owners—usually by mail—after he has pilfered all cash and valuables. Following a particularly lucrative haul, he returns some small change to the wallet so its owner can buy cigarettes. “Have to help the poor guy,” he says. But Azad’s ethics are put to the test when he inevitably lands himself in jail. Police detective Bidhan Saha, a hard-nosed cop with a fatherly bent, takes Azad under his wing, offering him a pardon and a salary if he will turn in his fellow thieves. The detective is convinced of Azad’s promise and works diligently to build rapport, visiting his home and even taking him on a beach vacation. Given a second chance and the hope for redemption, what choice will Azad make? Collaboration or incarceration? Loyalty or self-interest? Respectability or the lure of the city streets? As it follows Azad’s dilemma, the film offers a fascinating look into crime and criminal justice in a city recognized the world over for its intense poverty. The former home of Mother Teresa, Kolkata—like much of India—is also a city in transition: a teeming metropolis with a growing economy and a burgeoning middle class. With more capital in the city, the stakes for those on both sides of the law are set ever higher. JOURNALS OF A WILY SCHOOL is a classic tale of cops and robbers, set in changing and paradoxical times—for even as the ancient city creeps towards modernity, many of its inhabitants, like Azad, will remain caught in the age-old struggle to survive. Update In August 2009, the film’s producer, Debu Bhattacharyya, reported that Azad had returned to his life as a pickpocket, noting that, despite the hardships, “He says that this is where his heart lies.” Police detective Bidhan Saha was continuing his work and expanding his networks of informants to address issues of national security. Format : AVI Length : 465 MiB for 55mn 19s 185ms Codec : XviD Source : PDTV Language : Hindi Subtitles : English Hardcoded Genre : Documentary Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 1 024 Kbps Aspect : 608 x 336 (1.810) at 29.970 fps Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 138 Kbps Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz Enjoy! Ekolb
Seeders: 9
Leeches: 9

PBS Independent Lens-Butte, America.Oct 20, 2009.WS-PDTV.XviD.Ekolb

Category: Documentary
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Independent Lens: Butte, America Aired: Oct 20, 2009 You see the world differently when you work underground. That made Butte, Montana, different right from the start as immigrants came from around the world to work the mines. But what they blasted out of the 10,000 miles of tunnels was more than just copper. It was the rise of unions and multinational corporations, and the seeds of the current debate over the environment. Format : AVI Length : 465 MiB for 56mn 40s 166ms Codec : XviD Source : PDTV Language : English Subtitles : None Genre : Documentary Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 1 001 Kbps Aspect : 608 x 336 (1.810) at 29.970 fps Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 132 Kbps Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz Enjoy! Ekolb
Seeders: 19
Leeches: 18