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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

Socialist Standard November 2009.pdf

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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Socialist Standard magazine November 2009 - Front cover: ‘Twenty years beyond the Berlin Wall’ Editorial – ‘Socialism Was Never Tried’ Features ‘The fall of “communism”: Why so peaceful?’ Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall came down, symbolising the collapse of state capitalism in Eastern Europe. ‘The Myth of Soviet “Socialism”’ Vladimir Sirotin from Russia explains how that country was never socialist. ‘Workers’ State? Pull the other one’ How could anyone have seriously argued that the workers ruled in Russia? ‘Joining the killing machine’ The campaign to win the young to war has come a long way from the ‘Your Country Needs You’ poster with the pointing finger of Kitchener used in the ‘First Great War’. ‘Afghanistan – lying about dying’ The pressure to misinterpret the deaths, as the bodies come back, as nobly purifying is a cynically orchestrated propaganda exercise intended to justify the war. Regular features - Pathfinders (science / technology) – ‘Gullibility Travels’ Material World – ‘Malawi: Children of the Tobacco Fields’ Pieces Together – news cuttings from mainstream media Cooking the Books 1 (economics) – ‘Out of Control’ Cooking the Books 2 - ‘Free is Cheaper?’ 50 Years Ago – ‘The Darwin Centenary’ Voice From the Back - selected news items Free Lunch – cartoon Book Reviews – ‘Che Guevara and the Economic Debate in Cuba’, by Luiz Bernardo Pericás ‘Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History’ by David Aaronovitch ‘The Trouble with Capitalism’, by Harry Shutt ‘Enough’, by John Naish Plus letters, book reviews, meetings, etc. Also see www.worldsocialism.org
Seeders: 2
Leeches: 1

PBS Frontline-Close to Home.S28E03.WS-PDTV.XviD.Ekolb

Category: Documentary
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Frontline: Close to Home Aired: Oct 27, 2009 Producer Ofra Bikel chronicles how the middle class is faring in this recession through the stories of the people who she's come to know at the hair salon she's frequented for the past 20 years. The film reveals the struggles of a small business owner to stay afloat, her sister's risk of imminent foreclosure on her Florida home and the various clients whose lives intersect at this New York City salon --from well-to-do bankers to struggling actors, each with a story to tell about how they're getting by in these turbulent times. 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: 17
Leeches: 2

Unreported World ~ Liberia Stolen Childhood 2009 10 16 Channel 4

Category: Documentary
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Unreported World ~ Liberia Stolen Childhood 2009 10 16 Channel 4 File Name .............: Unreported World S18E04 - Liberia Stolen Childhood (16 October 2009) 237mb /24:15.000/Xvid Unreported World reveals how Liberia is facing a child rape crisis. Jenny Kleeman reports from Liberia where six years after a brutal civil war in which rape was routinely used as a weapon, children are still at risk of being attacked. She meeta victims at safe houses and children's hospitals to hear their harrowing stories. With little being done to bring rapists to justice, just how serious is the Liberian government about tackling child rape? Six years after the end of a brutal civil war in which rape was routinely used as a weapon, children still face the daily fear of being attacked, and the West African country's hospitals are overwhelmed with child victims, a quarter of them under four years old. In the Liberian capital, Monrovia, reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Matt Haan meet Mercy, a six-year-old girl who was abducted and raped by a stranger two weeks previously. Mercy is taking a course of drugs to try to stop her from contracting HIV. She lives in a safe house run by a Liberian charity, which is filled with other child rape victims. Edit... The team visits a children's hospital run by the charity Médecins Sans Frontières. Elias Abi-Aad tells Kleeman that his unit saw 771 child rape victims in 2008 and in the first six months of 2009 had already seen 422 victims, but he estimates this is only a small fraction of the total number of cases in Liberia. Victims suffer serious medical problems as a result of their ordeal and the hospital saw three recent cases where children died as a direct consequence of rape. ..... The UN acknowledges there have been problems of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers in Liberia, including a few that allegedly involve underage girls. They say they take allegations very seriously and have promised to investigate Oretha and Sarah's claims. ... Liberia's civil war has left the country with a culture of impunity, and a culture where men want to have sex with very young girls. Until that changes, Liberia can't escape its tragic past. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-w...s-2009/episode-14 Source: http://www.thebox.bz/details.php?id=95442 Cap: geclipse Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
Seeders: 7
Leeches: 4

US NOW

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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Can we all govern? Us Now looks at how 'user' participation could transform the way that countries are governed. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organising structures threaten to change the fabric of government forever. Us Now follows the fate of Ebbsfleet United, a football club owned and run by its fans; Zopa, a bank in which everyone is the manager; and Couch Surfing, a vast online network whose members share their homes with strangers.
Seeders: 1335
Leeches: 988

Alone In Four Walls (2007)

Category: Documentary
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Alone In Four Walls (2007) Director Alexandra Westmeier's absorbing documentary ALONE IN FOUR WALLS offers a poignant look at what a devastated economic structure can do to impressible youth. This beautifully lensed film about Russian delinquent boys, all under the age of 14, allows its subjects to recount their offenses and share the often-tragic stories of their lives. Many of the boys have had no family or reliable support in life. There is no place for them in the sad world of their parents, who are often alcoholics, unemployed and living in hovels. And their unhappy expressions only brighten when they talk of their passions and their hopes. At this detention center, these adolescent boys no longer have to fight to survive. They do not have to face everyday torture from their families nor go hungry. They have found temporary refuge and solace among their four walls, in a juvenile detention center where they have a strict regiment, educational opportunities, decent meals and medical care. On the other hand, they are living amongst other thieves and even murderers. Can these boys build new lives for themselves? Displaying both great empathy and restraint, Westmeier builds a heartfelt portrait of innocence lost and a chance of redemption.
Seeders: 12
Leeches: 12

HBO - Dope Sick Love (2005)

Category: Documentary
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HBO - Dope Sick Love (2005) The America Undercover documentary exclusively on HBO Tracey getting her needle ready to shoot up Where are the characters now? They say love conquers all, but can love survive on the streets of New York City? For drug-addicted couples like Matt and Tracy, and Sebastian and Michelle, the dream of romance must endure the reality of a desperate unending cycle of fixes, withdrawals, brawls and hustles. The America Undercover documentary DOPE SICK LOVE tells the stories of these two couples. Cinematographers, Brent and Craig Renaud spent 18 months on the streets to capture the raw reality in a frightening and compelling you-are-there style. The special is executive produced by 11-time Emmy® winner Jon Alpert (HBO’s “High on Crack Street: Lost Lives of Lowell”). Michelle and Sebastian after an intense fight on the subway “Dope Sick“ is the street term for the excruciating illness and pain that occur when an addict can’t get a fix. According to the government website, there are one million heroin addicts and eight million people who have used crack in the U.S. Presented without music, effects, or narration, DOPE SICK LOVE is pure cinema verité, shot on the streets of lower Manhattan over a period of 18 months. It is stark and unrelenting. The camera follows the two couples into the corridors of apartment buildings where they shoot up; into the homes of the johns who pay for their services; and back out onto the streets as they chase their next fix. “We didn’t want to make just another drug film,” says Craig Renaud. “Most films about drug addicts don’t adequately portray the horrors of addiction. Drug addiction controls every aspect of a user’s life. It reduces family, work, hobbies and friendships to distant memories. In order to capture this dark reality, we had to ‘embed’ ourselves into this life. When you watch DOPE SICK LOVE you won’t just see what its like to live this kind of life, you will feel it.” Matt kisses a client goodbye The documentary takes place in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood of beautiful, historic brownstone houses and tree-lined streets. It’s also the place where Matt and Tracy score their drugs, and break into buildings to shoot heroin and smoke crack. Tracey was a 17-year-old in private school when she started experimenting with drugs. Matt, who has been on the streets since he was 14, prostitutes himself to gay men to support his habit. His mother would like to help him fight his drug addiction, but has lost hope, observing, “Matt was a good kid and then he grew up. I can’t deal with his lifestyle any longer.” Tracey’s long-suffering father won’t give up on his daughter. The weekly checks he sends her go entirely to support the couples’ drug habits. To get them off the streets, Tracey’s father finally decides that he has no choice but to rent an apartment for them in Brooklyn. This is a happy ending of sorts, but one that feels fragile, because Tracy and Matt continue to do drugs. Without the financial support of family, Sebastian and Michelle have a tougher time. Sebastian engages in gay prostitution when the couple is desperate for money, but he doesn’t want his girl Michelle engaging in sex for money. Michelle is a master of the scam, luring prospective sex clients into compromising situations. Then, posing as a cop, she pulls out a fake badge and extorts cash from the johns in exchange for their “freedom.” Sebastian and Michelle’s hand-to-mouth existence strains their relationship. As the high wears off they get into violent street fights. Eventually, the desire for drugs is stronger than their love for each other. They part ways and end up on the streets -- alone. “Let this film be a warning to anyone who thinks that drugs will bring anything but degradation and desperation,” says Brent Renaud. “Even though DOPE SICK LOVE deals with two romances, nothing is romanticized in this documentary. There is nothing constructive about crack. There is nothing heroic about heroin. We wanted to bring the viewer close enough to the life of a drug addict to show the inevitable result.” CREDITS Directed by Felice Conte, and Brent and Craig Renaud; Cinematographers/Editors, Brent and Craig Renaud; Supervising Editor, John Custodio; Executive Producer, Jon Alpert; Co-Executive Producers Felice Conte and Jonathan Stack. For HBO: Senior Producer, Lisa Heller; Executive Producer, Sheila Nevins. Festivals & Awards: WINNER: Hugo Award, 2005 WINNER: Cine Golden Eagle Award, 2005 WINNER: Telly Award, 2005 WINNER: Best Documentary- Big MiniDV Festival, 2005 WINNER: Best Feature Documentary, Syracuse International Film and Video Festival, 2006 NOMINATED: Emmy Award for Best Documentary, 2006
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The VICE Guide to Travel (2006)

Category: Documentary
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The VICE GUIDE TO TRAVEL is the first installment in VICE magazine’s new DVD series. The series will feature short documentaries arranged around a different theme. For this edition we went to the kinds of places that nobody else wants to visit. We traveled to the corners of the world where news is happening, the forgotten locales where strange people and stories lie and where history is being made every day. This is the VICE idea of a vacation. - Places visited: Chernobyl, Pakistan, Paraguay, Rio, Beirut, Congo, Bulgaria
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The Cyberpunk Educator (2003)

Category: Documentary
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The Cyberpunk Educator (2003) The Cyberpunk Educator is a documentary study of mainstream 'cyberpunk' films of the 1980's- with a heavy focus on their literary, political, and cultural content. The film uses the structure of literary theorist Northrop Frye, and the cultural critiques of renowned anthropologist Michel Foucault to describe the common, repeating stories in Western culture, and their application to the political process. Though it's an academic film, its also film about existentialist robots with guns, and it's fun to watch.
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CBC The Fifth Estate - Riding on Risk September 25 2009

Category: Documentary
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RIDING ON RISK ;; ;;| riginally aired September 25, 2009 on CBC-TVCBC The Fifth Estate S19E01 Riding on In its many years of bringing investigative reports to Canadians, the fifth estate has had its share of alarming stories. This season debuts with startling and disturbing allegations about the pople we depend on to ensure our safety when we fly. The story begins with an urgent e-mail to the fifth estate. CBC The Fifth Estate - Riding on Risk September 25 2009 In its many years of bringing investigative reports to Canadians, the fifth estate has had its share of alarming stories. This season debuts with startling and disturbing allegations about the people we depend on to ensure our safety when we fly. The story begins with an urgent e-mail to the fifth estate. The writer says she has “come across interesting, internal information from Transport Canada.” The sender: a journalism student who has found a USB key/computer memory stick in a coffee shop. The student’s discovery contains interesting information indeed. There are warnings from a security inspector at Canada’s biggest airport alleging public safety is being compromised because security and safety regulations are being circumvented in favour of profit and convenience. In Riding on Risk, reporter Hana Gartner talks to whistle blowers who have risked their livelihoods to try to change a system that they believe is putting passengers and airline employees in grave and needless danger – at the airports and in the air. We’ll also meet Kirsten Stevens of British Columbia, a woman whose logger husband boarded a routine flight one day, promising to be home in time for dinner with her and their three children. But, the small float plane carrying him crashed and all aboard were killed. Kirsten assumed Transport Canada would investigate. She was shocked when she realized they had closed their file on the crash. She did her own meticulous investigation and pinpointed a mechanical failure that may have led to her husband’s death. Since then, she has become a crusader, and a magnet, for whistle blowers inside the industry desperate to share their concerns about aviation security and safety. Finally, the fifth estate takes the investigation to federal Minister of Transport, John Baird. Hana Gartner gives the Minister the opportunity to respond to the allegations and asks the question that should be on the minds of anyone in Canada who flies: should industry, concerned about saving money and cutting corners, be the same people to worry about safety?
Seeders: 17
Leeches: 10