Pompeii: Disaster Street (2019, 1080p History Documentary)
Pompeii: Disaster Street For the first time in 70 years, archaeologists have uncovered new areas of ancient Pompeii. With exclusive access to the dig, see how the latest artifacts and DNA science are changing history and discover the real stories of what happened to the unfortunate souls who didn’t escape to the city gates.
Sixty-five million years ago, a giant meteor hit the earth causing a global catastrophe that destroyed an estimated three quarters of the plants and animal species on the planet, including the mighty dinosaurs. Little was known about the survivors who lived in this post-apocalyptic world until a mining operation in Cerrejon, Northern Colombia — excavating coal cut from deep within the earth’s crust — exposed an important layer in the earth’s geological history laid down more than 10 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs. In 2003, when paleontologist professor Jonathan Bloch, University of Florida, first heard that this important layer had been exposed, he and his research team rushed to Columbia. He had spent his career studying this Paleocene period in the earth’s geological history. Could this be the lost world he’d been searching for?
Alex4History's supplementary notes:
From the Secrets of the Dead series
Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders
What links Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and a priceless Celtic cauldron recently discovered at the bottom of a lake in Bavaria? In this film an investigation uncovers allegations of mafia involvement, an international fraud trial where millions of dollars are at stake and a forensic discovery that stuns the archaeological world and steers the mystery towards Himmler's SS shrine at Wewelsburg and Hitler's obsessive quest for the Holy Grail. This seemingly priceless and beautiful object has brought death and disaster to everyone who has attempted to own it but who did make it and why?
Hosted by Shaun Dooley
Bugsy and Mugsy is a 1957 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on August 31, 1957, and stars Bugs Bunny, with Rocky and Mugsy. Bugs discovers that two robbers are hiding out on the floor above him, and plays them off against each other.
Notes:
This short shares similarities with "Stooge for a Mouse" such as Rocky and Hector/Mike saying to Sylvester and Mugsy "I don't know how youse done it but I know youse done it!" and the mouse and Bugs using a magnet to make it look like Mugsy and Sylvester are fighting Rocky and Hector/Mike. Coincidentally, both cartoons were directed by Freleng.
Oddly, there are continual continuity errors in this short. In particular, Bugs' size changes; outside his hole, he is normal-sized, but inside, he is the size of a mouse (take the size of the magnet he's holding near the end of the short, for instance.
HBO Max used a different transfer for their restoration than the Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection; HBO Max's transfer has a darker hue.
This cartoon, "Saddle Silly", and "From Hand to Mouse" were restored on HBO Max but were taken down.
Music by the John Barry Orchestra
0:00 Gunbarrel/This Never Happened To The Other Fella
5:02 Escape From Piz Gloria
8:53 Journey to Blofeld’s Hideaway
10:56 Journey to Draco’s Hideaway
12:29 Bond Meets the Girls
13:59 Who Will Buy My Yesterdays?
16:00 Over and Out
17:01 Battle at Piz Gloria
21:01 We Have All The Time In The World
Zenyatta Mondatta (stylised as Zenyattà Mondatta on the album cover artwork) is the third studio album by British rock band the Police, released on 3 October 1980 by A&M Records. It was co-produced by the band and Nigel Gray.
Zenyatta Mondatta reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and number five on the US Billboard 200. It produced the hit singles "Don't Stand So Close to Me" and "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da". The album won the band two Grammy Awards: Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "Don't Stand So Close to Me" and Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "Behind My Camel".
Tracklist:
01. Don't Stand So Close to Me 00:00
02. Driven to Tears 04:02
03. When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around 07:23
04. Canary in a Coalmine 10:59
05. Voices Inside My Head 13:26
06. Bombs Away 17:19
07. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da 20:28
08. Behind My Camel 24:35
09. Man in a Suitcase 27:29
10. Shadows in the Rain 29:47
11. The Other Way of Stopping 34:51
The Police
Sting – bass guitar (all but 8), lead and backing vocals, synthesizers
Andy Summers – guitar, backing vocals, piano (4), synthesizers (8), bass guitar (8)
Stewart Copeland – drums, backing vocals
During the mid-second century BC, Rome was enjoying the spoils after defeating Carthage in the Third Punic War, with slaves, treasure and art pouring into the republic. Larry Lamb examines how not everyone was reaping the benefit and reveals that resentment was mounting as the gap widened between the poor and the privileged. The actor traces the journey of Tiberius Gracchus, a man from the elite ruling classes who eventually came to champion the cause of the common citizen farmer, and learns about the development of the hypocaust, Rome's famous central-heating system.
With its bent wings and long nose, the Corsair was one of the most distinctive planes of WWII. It was the scourge of Japanese pilots, capable of diving at more than 500 miles per hour. But, surprisingly, it assumed its most familiar role - flying from the decks of U.S. carriers - three years after it was unveiled. Drawing on color archival film, detailed computer re-enactments and interviews with Corsair pilots, BATTLE STATIONS tells the story of this legendary aircraft. Relive its early battles, when it was flown by Marines from bases on the Solomon islands and earned the nickname "whistling death" from the Japanese. See how British aviators finally mastered the art of deck-landing the powerful fighter, and follow the Corsair through the deadly engagements that led up to the end of the war.
Alex4History's supplementary notes:
From the "Battle Stations" series.
Narrated by: James Faulkner
Extended interview of Corsair Pilot Henry 'Boo' Bourgeois joined to the film at 44:53
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Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers is a Bugs Bunny short subject directed by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon and released in 1992. The cartoon was intended for theatrical release but eventually aired as part of the television special Bugs Bunny's Creature Features. Its premise is modeled after the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and it is considered subversive and a lampoon of cheaply drawn animation.
Voice cast:
Jeff Bergman as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Porky Pig
Notes:
Each of these "pale stereotypes" of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam have the tendency to repeat their signature lines over and over again like broken records, evident in the second half of this cartoon. Their often-repeated lines are the following;
Bugs Bunny: "What's up, doc?"
Daffy Duck: "You're despicable!"
Elmer Fudd: "I'm hunting wabbits!"
Yosemite Sam: "Rackin' frackin' varmint!"
The sound effect where Bugs uses a wind-up key to direct the pale stereotype version of Daffy into the sack of "pale stereotypes" to be blasted into space was previously re-used from the Sniffles cartoon "Toy Trouble", where the sound effect of the wind-up toy duck from that cartoon is re-used here.
This short re-uses music from "Drip-Along Daffy", "Lighter Than Hare", "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century", "Wideo Wabbit", "Barbary-Coast Bunny", "Duck Amuck", "Rabbit Seasoning", "Bugsy and Mugsy", "Double or Mutton", "A Kiddies Kitty", "Bewitched Bunny", "Guided Muscle", "The Slap-Hoppy Mouse", "Scrambled Aches", "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z", "Stupor Duck", "There They Go-Go-Go!", “Raw! Raw! Rooster!”, and "Half-Fare Hare".
This is the last Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies short made for television.
This is, to date, the longest-running Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies short.
This is one of the only two Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies short to have a post-credits scene, the other one being "(Blooper) Bunny" produced the previous year.
I Wanna Be a Sailor is a 1937 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon film directed by Tex Avery. The short was released on September 25, 1937.
Notes:
The voice of Peter Parrot was prolific child actor Robert "Bobby" Winkler, who had worked in over eighty films and over two hundred radio shows with most of the stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. His IMDB page is listed under his often credited name Robert Winkler.
This is the first cartoon to end with the 1937-38 "Merrily We Roll Along" rendition. However, the blue rings titles would remain for this cartoon and "The Lyin' Mouse". The rings would change to yellow, starting from "Little Red Walking Hood", and would remain this way up to "You're an Education".
This cartoon is one of the many handful pre-1943 shorts to enter the public domain due to United Artists, the owners of the short at the time. The copyright was planned to be renewed, but they failed to renew the copyright in time. It is the earliest color WB cartoon in the Public Domain.
The duck in this cartoon is theorized by some people as being the same duck that appeared in the cartoons "It's an Ill Wind", "Porky's Hotel", and "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter".
Some sources claim (including Clampett himself) that Bob Clampett worked on this cartoon. However, Clampett was a director by the time this short was in production.
The music track for this short was recorded 17 August 1937.