Documentaries

[buksida]

Been watching a TV docuseries called "The Days" covering the events leading to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in 2011. If you liked the Chernobyl one, this is for you.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22074484/
https://eztv.re/search/the-days

Attenborough's Prehistoric Planet 2 is also very good. Pretty amazing what they can do with CGI these days (FHD is a must).

[dtaai-maai]

I've just watched the first episode of a BBC2 series called Earth. Now, at this point I have to say that I have an almost irrational dislike for the presenter, Chris Packham. He's never struck me as the sort of bloke I'd like to chat with over a beer, his voice irritates me, he's a bit too nerdy and, first and foremost, never trust a man who wears a polo shirt with the top button done up. That said, the subject matter is so fascinating that I was able to put that dislike to one side. I couldn't binge watch Packham, but I will watch the other 4 episodes,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0fpwhhm/earth

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g0w2mz

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... ughs-shoes

No natural history programme can, or should, be made these days without the climate crisis as a looming subtext at the very least. Chris Packham’s confidently grand new series Earth, a guide to “five pivotal moments” in the planet’s history, might look like an exception, since its first episode is set 252 million years ago. But unfathomably distant as that is, it is painfully relevant because of what happened at the close of the Permian period: Earth grew warmer, ending life as it existed then.

A volcanic eruption, a thousand times greater than any ever seen by humans, covered one percent of Earth’s only land mass, Pangea, with liquid fire and released four million cubic kilometres of lava, greenhouse gas and ash. Mass extinction followed: Packham, squatting nimbly by a cliff face, demonstrates it by hammering a lump out of a thin seam of coal, left there when a lot of organic matter died suddenly. Then he chips at the rock above, finding it to be smooth and featureless, a relic of a time when nothing died because not much had survived.

[Nereus]

Now, at this point I have to say that I have an almost irrational dislike for the presenter, Chris Packham.

If you want a presenter that really makes you spew, try this revolting idiot:

https://andrewgough.co.uk/

[buksida]

I've just watched the first episode of a BBC2 series called Earth. Now, at this point I have to say that I have an almost irrational dislike for the presenter, Chris Packham.

Any idea where to download the last two in this documentary series?

https://www.bbcearth.com/shows/earth

The buffering on iPlayer is intolerable and this stuff should be viewed in FHD.

Edit: found em on TBP - https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=earth+2023&cat=0

[dtaai-maai]

I went on a bit of a Parkinson spree on Youtube yesterday, and watched one from the 70s that I'd never seen before. It was a one-on-one with Prof [hang on a sec - oh yes] Bronowski, an intellectual and academic, a scientist and biologist, basically your average all-round genius. Not someone I was familiar with, but the interview captured my attention. He was the creator and presenter of a BBC documentary series called The Ascent of Man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Man

The Ascent of Man is a 13-part British documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first broadcast in 1973. It was written and presented by British mathematician and historian of science Jacob Bronowski, who also authored a book adaptation. Intended as a series of "personal view" documentaries in the manner of Kenneth Clark's 1969 series Civilisation, the series received acclaim for Bronowski's highly informed but eloquently simple analysis, his long, elegant monologues, and its extensive location shoots. The programme began broadcasting on BBC2 at 9 pm on Saturday, 5 May 1973[1] and was released in the US 7 January 1975.

I missed it at the time as I was away at school, but I was so taken by the man's obvious intelligence (along with, I suspect a healthy dollop of ego ) that I decided to take a look. I watched the first episode, covering the early evolution of humans from apes, and was most impressed. The programme is 50 years old, so the picture quality is not as good as today's, but it's not bad either. No CGI, of course, but so far I don't mind that. It's available on iPlayer.

[sateeb]

/\ Vaguely remember doing my doctorate(aged 14) on this subject.
Will take a look on a torrent.

https://www.limetorrents.lol/The-Ascent ... 65338.html

[sateeb]

I went on a bit of a Parkinson spree on Youtube yesterday, and watched one from the 70s that I'd never seen before. It was a one-on-one with Prof [hang on a sec - oh yes] Bronowski, an intellectual and academic, a scientist and biologist, basically your average all-round genius. Not someone I was familiar with, but the interview captured my attention. He was the creator and presenter of a BBC documentary series called The Ascent of Man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Man

The Ascent of Man is a 13-part British documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first broadcast in 1973. It was written and presented by British mathematician and historian of science Jacob Bronowski, who also authored a book adaptation. Intended as a series of "personal view" documentaries in the manner of Kenneth Clark's 1969 series Civilisation, the series received acclaim for Bronowski's highly informed but eloquently simple analysis, his long, elegant monologues, and its extensive location shoots. The programme began broadcasting on BBC2 at 9 pm on Saturday, 5 May 1973[1] and was released in the US 7 January 1975.

I missed it at the time as I was away at school, but I was so taken by the man's obvious intelligence (along with, I suspect a healthy dollop of ego ) that I decided to take a look. I watched the first episode, covering the early evolution of humans from apes, and was most impressed. The programme is 50 years old, so the picture quality is not as good as today's, but it's not bad either. No CGI, of course, but so far I don't mind that. It's available on iPlayer.

Just watched the first episode, really impressed! I started watching some docu last week on the same theme and turned off after 10 minutes in disgust. Dumbed down for a millennial audience with an attention span less than that of a senile amoeba

Those 1973 computer graphics must have been real BBC cutting edge

[HHTel]

Oh what I'd give to have the attention span of a senile amoeba!!!!
lol

[sateeb]

Just read that Jacob Bronowski passed away in August 1974 so a fitting legacy he left us.

[sateeb]

Just started this one. 3 parter from Netflix.

Who Killed Jill Dando. May not mean a lot to some but may mean a lot to many.

available for d/l @ https://piratebay.party/search/Who%20Ki ... ndo/1/99/0

[dtaai-maai]

Fake or Fortune? BBC iPlayer

Journalist Fiona Bruce teams up with art dealer Philip Mould -- dubbed "the art detective" -- to investigate remarkable stories beneath the surface of paintings. From Paris and Amsterdam to Cape Town, the banks of the Nile, and New York, the team employs old-fashioned detective skills and the latest forensic testing to reveal compelling tales of lost masterpieces, forgers and Nazi-looted art. The episodes include an investigation into what the hosts believe is an unrecognized and valuable painting by Monet.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mxxz6

There are, inevitably, quite a few arty-farty ponces in this series. But leaving aside the fact that I might once have fanatasised about being spanked by Fiona Bruce , I find the detective work and the supporting technological advances absolutely fascinating.

[Nereus]

But leaving aside the fact that I might once have fanatasised about being spanked by Fiona Bruce....

There is no accounting for taste!

Now, if it was Lucy Worsley, then I could understand it!

[Dannie Boy]

I think my pecking order would be FB first, LW second, but of course all hypothetical these days!!

[huahin4ever]

I just watched this 2 part documentary abut the pedophile Jimmy Saville. What a piece of shit person. Hope he rot in hell. Sadly though they didn't catch him before he passed away

https://www.netflix.com/us/title/815205 ... p=81593299

YNWA!

[Pagey]

I just watched this 2 part documentary abut the pedophile Jimmy Saville. What a piece of shit person. Hope he rot in hell. Sadly though they didn't catch him before he passed away

https://www.netflix.com/us/title/815205 ... p=81593299

YNWA!

There is also a drama in the pipeline with Steve Coogan as JS but not sure if it has been released yet.