Nazi Megastructures.S4.4of5.Hitler's Propaganda Machine (2017, 720p HD Documentary)
During the brutal Battle of Berlin in 1945, 100,000 German civilians fight to the death and 6,000 commit suicide. How did the Nazis motivate ordinary civilians to fight even when defeat was inevitable? The answer is propaganda, and in Dr Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler found a genius of mind-manipulation. This episode reveals the evidence left behind by the Nazi propaganda machine, monuments to the sinister but brilliant brain-washing of an entire nation.
Features: Prof Tony Pollard (Conflict Archaeologist),James Holland (Author & Historian) .
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?
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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
Bugs and Thugs is a 1954 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on March 13, 1954, and stars Bugs Bunny, with Rocky and Mugsy. The film is a semi-remake of the 1946 cartoon Racketeer Rabbit. It is also the first Warner Bros short to credit Milt Franklyn as a musical director.
When Spike tries to bury a bone he finds a belligerent gopher.
Directed by Tex Avery. Written By Rich Hogan.
Voice Actor: Daws Butler
Originally Released Theatrically on September 30, 1950.
Two thousand years ago one of history's most notorious individuals was born. Professor Mary Beard embarks on an investigative journey to explore the life and times of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus - better known to us as Caligula.
Caligula has now become known as Rome's most capricious tyrant, and the stories told about him are some of the most extraordinary told about any Roman emperor. He was said to have made his horse a consul, proclaimed himself a living God, and indulged in scandalous orgies - even with his own three sisters - and that's before you mention building vast bridges across land and sea, prostituting senators' wives and killing half the Roman elite seemingly on a whim. All that in just four short years in power before a violent and speedy assassination in a back alley of his own palace at just 28-years-old.
But how much of his story is true? Travelling across the Roman world - from Germany and Capri in the bay of Naples to the astonishing luxury of his life in imperial Rome - Mary attempts to peel away the myths. Some stories are difficult to get to the bottom of as they were written by hacks long after his death, but there is plenty of surviving evidence where the 'real' Caligula can be glimpsed. Such as in the extraordinary luxury of his private yachts outside Rome; in the designs he chose for his coins when he became Emperor; in an eye-witness account of Caligula's withering humour written in 41AD; the trial documents covering the mysterious death of his father when he was just seven-years-old; and even in a record of his imperial slaves - from the palace spy to his personal trainer.
Piecing together the evidence, Mary puts Caligula back into the context of his times to reveal an astonishing story of murder, intrigue and dynastic family power. Above all, she explains why Caligula has ended up with such a seemingly unredeemable reputation. In the process, she reveals a more intriguing portrait of not just the monster, but the man.
Brilliant explanation of the things we love about 'toons! - Alex
A Chuck Jones Tutorial: Tricks of the Cartoon Trade
1. Zip-outs
2. Anticipation
3. Primary and Secondary Action
4. Overlapping Action
5. Cartoon Exaggeration
6. Natural Animal Movement
7. Anthropomorphism
8. Animation of Minutiae
Tortilla Flaps is a 1958 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson. The short was released on January 18, 1958, and stars Speedy Gonzales.
Voices:
Mel Blanc provided the voice for both Speedy and Vulturo.
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This is Speedy Gonzales' 5th cartoon.
This is Robert McKimson's 104th cartoon as director at Warner Bros., in fact, this is his 168th cartoon altogether (animator and director).
Written by N.J. Crisp
Designer: Richard Morris
Directed by Michael E. Briant
One of the best World War II dramas ever created, and inspired by real events, Secret Army is a British television drama made by the BBC and the Belgian national broadcaster BRT (now VRT) created by Gerard Glaister. It tells the story of a fictional Belgian resistance movement in German-occupied Belgium during the Second World War dedicated to returning Allied airmen, usually having been shot down by the Luftwaffe, to Great Britain. It was made in the UK and Belgium and three series were broadcast on BBC1 between 7 September 1977 and 15 December 1979.
Starring: Bernard Hepton as Albert Foiret, Angela Richards as Monique Duchamps, Clifford Rose as Gestapo Standartenführer Ludwig Kessler, Terrence Hardiman as Maj. Hans-Dietrich Reinhardt, Juliet Hammond-Hill as Natalie Chantrens, Valentine Dyall as Dr Pascal Keldermans, Ron Pember as Alain Muny, Hazel McBride as Madeleine Duclos
Created by Gerard Glaister
Producer — Gerard Glaister
Script editor — John Brason
Script supervisors — Frank Radcliffe, James Cadman
Designers — Ray London, Richard Morris, Marjorie Pratt, Austin Ruddy, Graham Lough