Shock

Dr. Cross, a psychiatrist played by Vincent Price, is treating a young woman, Janet Stewart, who is in a coma-state, brought on when she heard loud arguing, went to her window and saw a man strike his wife with a candlestick and kill her. As she comes out of her shock, she recognizes Dr. Cross as the killer. He takes her to his sanitarium and urged by his nurse/lover, Elaine Jordan, gives Janet an overdose of insulin. But he can't bring himself ...

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (US)

This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig), as he investigates the disappearance of a wearily patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined. ...

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Revenge of the Electric Car

Revenge of the Electric Car presents the recent resurgence of electric vehicles as seen through the eyes of four pioneers of the EV revolution. Director Chris Paine (Who Killed the Electric Car? 2006) has had unprecedented access to the electric car research and development programs at General Motors, Nissan, and Tesla Motors, while also following a part time electric car converter who refuses to wait for the international car makers to create the ...

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Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes

A BBC television drama series originally broadcast in 2000 and 2001, Murder Rooms was inspired by the fact that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based the character of Sherlock Holmes on his tutor at the University of Edinburgh Dr Joseph Bell, and that Bell did occasionally do forensic work for the Edinburgh police. It is said that Dr. Bell had similar deductive and observation skills as the famous Sherlock Holmes. Watch by clicking on each episode's link ...

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Armando's Tale Of Charles Dickens

Satirist and lifelong Charles Dickens fan Armando Iannucci, worried that endless adaptations of the novelist's work have led his skills to go unappreciated, sets out to prove why he still matters as a writer in the 21st century. Using David Copperfield as a starting point, he unpicks the language and the revolution of a master storyteller, and with the help of funnymen Barry Cryer, Kevin Eldon and Phill Jupitus, he gets beneath the skin of some of ...

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Websex: What's the Harm?

Nathalie Emmanuel investigates how the internet is changing the sex lives of 16-24 year-olds across Britain. Nathalie meets young people who rely on social networking sites, the latest mobile technology and webcams. For the first time she reveals figures from an academic study which shows how many people have taken their sex lives online, and exactly what they are doing.Watch on NovaMov, PutLocker, SockShare, uFLiQ, VideoWeed, or RoyalVi ...

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Edward VII: Prince of Pleasure

Playboy? Wastrel? Or a visionary modernizer and accomplished diplomat? Edward VII - known as Bertie - was all of these, and more. Yet – while there is some justice in this view - he was at the same time arguably one of the most politically astute and effective monarchs of the 20th century. This programme uses documents including previously unseen letters that have survived to find the truth that lies behind the enigmatic personality. Watch on ...

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Wild Seahorses: Wanted Dead Or Alive

With a horse's head, a monkey's tail and sex-swap parenting, seahorses are one of the ocean's strangest and most charismatic inhabitants. In this one hour special, wildlife filmmaker Natali Tesche-Ricciardi sets out to investigate something that most people don't realize - seahorse populations are in crisis. In National Geographic's Wild Seahorses: Wanted Dead Or Alive, Natali finds that seahorses live in shallow, coastal seas and so are among the ...

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Wallander

Wallander is a British television series adapted from the Swedish novelist Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Kenneth Branagh as the eponymous police inspector. The first three-episode series, produced by Yellow Bird, Left Bank Pictures and TKBC for BBC Scotland, were broadcast on BBC One from November to December 2008. It is the first time the Wallander novels have been adapted into an English-language production. Yellow Bird, ...

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Planet Earth

This series presents visually spectacular tours of the seven continents as it makes connections between our solar system and Earth's oceans, climate, and mineral and energy sources. It unifies Earth science, astronomy, and comparative planetology into an integrated discipline that relies on common scientific methods. A flexible instructional resource, Planet Earth provides course material for nonscience students and science majors. Produced by WQED/Pittsburgh ...

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The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth

The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth"Our planet, the Earth, is, as far as we know, unique in the universe. It contains life. Even in its most barren stretches, there are animals. Around the equator, where those two essentials for life, sunshine and moisture, are most abundant, great forests grow. And here plants and animals proliferate in such numbers that we still have not even named all the different species. Here, animals and plants, insects ...

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Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives

David Attenborough's Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives is a four-part BBC documentary series concerning the discovery of fossils. It is written and presented by David Attenborough, produced by Mike Salisbury, and was originally broadcast in April 1989. It was made in between the second and third installments of Attenborough's "Life" series: The Living Planet and The Trials of Life, respectively.The study of rocks and their ancient secrets was something ...

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Barbarella

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people. Watch on NovaMov, MegaVideo, PutLocker, SockShare, daClips, GorillaVid or StageVU ...

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Genuine: A Tale of a Vampire

Rockin' the best of German Expressionism, this film is a 44-minute condensation of Dr. Caligari director Robert Wiene’s Genuine (1920) . The source print for the full-frame video transfer was a 35mm preservation print from the Raymond Rohauer collection. The print often is contrasty, with bright highlights that often result in lost facial details and sections of overexposed footage, and a few moments of exposure fluctuations. The print is relatively ...

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High Art

Lisa Cholodenko wrote and directed this lesbian-themed drama, High Art,  winner of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Ambitious photography magazine associate editor Syd (Radha Mitchell) has a ho-hum relationship with James (Gabriel Mann). Investigating a ceiling leak, she enters the apartment of her neighbor, retired photographer Lucy Berliner (Ally Sheedy), who lives with former Fassbinder actress Greta (Patricia ...

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Nadja

This ultra-hip, post-modern vampire tale is set in contemporary New York City. Members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other while being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew.  Nadja (1994) is a great independent film that follows the death of Dracula and his dysfunctional family, whether trying to find love or giving up the vampire lifestyle. A 35mm black and white film with segments shot ...

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Lumière

Although the Lumiere Brothers believed it to be a medium without a future as they thought people would become bored of streamed images, the French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment created the film La Sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière  (1895; “Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory”), which is considered the first motion picture. They have been credited with over 1,425 different short films and even filmed aerial ...

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Heavenly Creatures

After winning a cult following for several offbeat and darkly witty gore films, New Zealand director Peter Jackson abruptly shifted gears with this stylish, compelling, and ultimately disturbing tale of two teenage girls whose friendship begins to fuel an ultimately fatal obsession. Pauline (Melanie Lynskey) is a student in New Zealand who doesn't much care for her family or her classmates; she's a bit overweight and not especially gracious, but ...

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A Warning to the Curious

The narrator begins the story by describing a windswept yet idyllic town on the coast of Suffolk, England called Seaburgh where he used to either live or visit as a child. After the narrator has evoked the setting of the story, he allows his friend to take over the narration. The friend tells of a stay in an inn in Seaburgh where he came across a very nervous-seeming young man who was afraid to be alone. This young man, Paxton by name, then tells ...

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Pandora's Box

It began with a weapon created by scientists that threatened to destroy the world. But then a group of men who were convinced they control the new danger began to gain influence in America. They would manipulate terror.To do so, they would use the methods of science. Pandora’s Box was a six part 1992 BBC documentary television series written and produced by Adam Curtis, which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism.Curtis’ ...

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Hidden History of Wales

Episode 1 - A look at Stonehenge's link to the Preseli Hills, Swansea's medieval beginnings and bomb-damaged streets, plus the secrets of the highest house in Wales.   Episode 2 - This episode looks at how laser scanning has brought a totally new dimension to the history of a quarry in North Wales. Plus, the rediscovery of a medieval fish trap in Fishguard harbour and an architect who built his ideal village at Llanfairfechan. Episode ...

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Spitfire Sisters

'Spitfire Sisters' tells the story of the remarkable ladies who flew for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in World War Two. Called upon to ferry military planes of all types between airfields, factories and maintenance units, these ladies were faced with bad weather, operational adversities and flying planes they had never flown before. Now in their 90's, these ladies tell us of the adventures they experienced during their incredible lives as Ferry ...

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Untold Stories of WWII

National Geographic's Untold Stories of WWII What if Hitler had had the A-bomb? Why did Japan's submarine sneak attack on Pearl Harbor fail? Could the kamikazes have turned the tide of war in the Pacific? Now these and other compelling stories about the secret weapons, ruthless tactics, and remarkable heroism of World War II can be told. Alt Link 1 Alt Link 2 Alt Link ...

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The Mayfair Set

The Mayfair Set is a series of films that study how buccaneer capitalists of hot money were allowed to shape the Thatcher government in Britain during the 1980s. Part 1 - Who Pays Wins Part 2 - Entrepreneur Spelt S.P.I.V.Part 3 - Destroy the TechnostructurePart 4 - Twilight of the Dogs Watch all directly at thoughtmaybe or watch via The Internet Archive starting with the first episode, below.  ...

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The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh by Adam Curtis follows the story of the cells of Henriettta Lacks who died in 1951 of cancer. Before she died cells were removed from her body and cultivated in a laboratory in the hope that they could help find a cure for cancer. The cells (known as the HeLa line) have been growing ever since, and the scientists found that they were growing in ways they could not control.  Watch via The Internet Archive below or Google ...

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The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear

Watch via thoughtmaybe, The Internet Archive or Google video, below. Part 1: "Baby It's Cold Outside"The first part of the series explains the origin of Islamism and Neo-Conservatism. It shows Egyptian civil servant Sayyid Qutb, depicted as the founder of modern Islamist thought, visiting the U.S. to learn about the education system, but becoming disgusted with what he saw as a corruption of morals and virtues in western society through individualism. ...

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