When Rome Ruled.4of8.Killing Caesar (2010, 720p HD Documentary)
Follow Julius Caesars meteoric rise to power and his historic murder. His life was marked by tyranny and treachery, grand public gestures and secret double dealings. But his genius, ego and ambitions changed the course of the history of the Greco-Roman world.
-- This is shared without profit for educational and historical purposes---
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
Starring: Jason Connery as Robin, Nickolas Grace as the Sheriff of Nottingham, Robert Addie as Sir Guy of Gisburne, John Abineri as Herne the Hunter
---------------
Guest Starring: Reece Dinsdale as Arthur, Patricia Hodge as Queen Hadwisa, William Russell (Russell Enoch) as The Duke of Gloucester, Cory Pulman as Queen Isabella
----------------
Robin of Sherwood, retitled Robin Hood in the US, is an acclaimed 1980s British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 28 April 1984 to 28 June 1986 on the ITV network.
The show starred first Michael Praed, then Jason Connery, as two different incarnations of the title character. Unlike previous adaptations of the Robin Hood legend, Robin of Sherwood combined a gritty, authentic production design with elements of real-life history and pagan myth.
Robin of Sherwood has been described by historian Stephen Knight as "the most innovative and influential version of the myth in recent times". The series is also notable for its musical score by Clannad, which won a BAFTA award.
Money For Nothing from the 2006 remaster of Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms, released across 4 sides of vinyl.
"Money for Nothing" is a song by British rock band Dire Straits, being the second track on their fifth studio album, Brothers in Arms (1985). It was released as the album's second single on 28 June 1985 through Vertigo Records. The song's lyrics are written from the point of view of two working-class men watching music videos and commenting on what they see. The song features a guest appearance by Sting who sings the signature falsetto introduction, background vocals and a backing chorus of "I want my MTV". The groundbreaking video was the first to be aired on MTV Europe when the network launched on 1 August 1987.
It was Dire Straits' most commercially successful single, peaking at number 1 for three weeks on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and Top Rock Tracks chart and number 4 in the band's native UK. In July 1985, the month following its release, Dire Straits and Sting performed the song at Live Aid. At the 28th Annual Grammy Awards in 1986, "Money for Nothing" won Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year as well. At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the music video received 11 nominations, winning Video of the Year and Best Group Video.
Recording digitised using the following equipment:
Turntable: Technics SL-1200G
Cartridge: Audio Technica ART-9
Amplifier: Devialet Expert Pro 440
Direct USB connection from the audio system into a MacBook Pro.
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is the sixth studio album by the English progressive rock band Genesis. It was released as a double album on 18 November 1974 by Charisma Records and is their last to feature original frontman Peter Gabriel. It peaked at No. 10 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 41 on the Billboard 200 in the US. It is their longest album to date.
While the band worked on new material at Headley Grange for three months, they decided to produce a concept album with a story devised by Gabriel about Rael, a Puerto Rican youth from New York City who is suddenly taken on a journey of self-discovery and encounters bizarre incidents and characters along the way. The album was marked by increased tensions within the band as Gabriel, who insisted on writing all of the lyrics, temporarily left to work with filmmaker William Friedkin and needed time to be with his family. Most of the songs were developed by the rest of the band through jam sessions and were put down at Glaspant Manor in Wales using a mobile studio.
The album received a mixed critical reaction at first, but it gained acclaim in subsequent years and has a cult following.
The 1982 film Das Boot, the story of the crew on a German U-Boat during World War Two, became one of the highest grossing German films of all time. The cast and crew discuss the making of Wolfgang Petersen's claustrophobic epic, a landmark in German cinema. The basis of the production is the novel by a contemporary witness. In 1973, the former war correspondent Lothar-Gunther Buchheim published his book DAS BOOT, based on his war experiences on the 7th war patrol of the U 96 in 1941. He documented the patrol and boat with photographs and wanted to "see decent German heroes", as the ship's commander, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, instructed the crew shortly before departure. The book became an international bestseller. In 1976 Bavaria Studios, at that time the largest film studios in West Germany, secured the filming rights. A Hollywood blockbuster is to be created - as a German-American production with a star cast, with Robert Redford and Paul Newman. Still without a script, an external and internal boat mock-ups are recreated in original size. The cost is three million DM. But Buchheim vetoed two scripts, claiming that they were too cliche, grossly exaggerated. The Americans get out of the planned feature film production "Das Boot". The sets are rusting left unused on the studio premises. The idea is only revived when a new head of the studio comes along. Then nationally celebrated but internationally unknown Wolfgang Petersen takes over the helm, he writes a script and takes over the direction. Petersen's script shows what war means and how it changes people. He wants to create an authentic war film, and a mammoth project is being planned. Never before has so much money been spent on a film in Germany. Most of the filming was done in one year; to make the appearance of the actors as realistic as possible, scenes were filmed in sequence over the course of the year. Young actors like Herbert Gronemeyer, Uwe Ochsenknecht or Martin Semmelrogge became well known through the film, leading actor Jurgen Prochnow even made a career in America afterwards. The film premiered in 1981. The German press is critical, either the film is denounced as glorifying war or, from exactly the opposite direction, portrayed as desecration of the honorable German marines. Production also functions as a reflection of German society in the early 80s. But the international reception is overwhelming: the way the film was made was appreciated - a determining aspect that got lost in German reviews due to the ideological discourse. Six Oscar nominations seal the global success, including the supreme disciplines: best direction, best editing, best camera, best adapted screenplay. Something that a German production never again achieved. In Germany, "The Boat" only became a legend through TV broadcasts as a series and a "Director's Cut" revived the boat in the 1990s and made it a legend. The production is in every respect a timeless and extremely captivating modern classic that has been around for forty years: a milestone in film history. The two filmmakers Georg Grill and Sven Femerling have created an impressive archive collage. Documentary has more than fifty previously unseen interviews that they have conducted with everyone involved over the past ten years. For fans and first-time viewers of DAS BOOT, unknown backgrounds, anecdotes and emotions of this "global success from the depths" are revealed. An ARTE G.E.I.E and Bremedia GmbH Production.
Rabbit Seasoning is a 1952 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.
Released on September 20, 1952, the short stars Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd.
It is the sequel to the previous year's Rabbit Fire, and the second in the "hunting trilogy" directed by Jones and written by Michael Maltese (the only major difference in format between them is that Rabbit Fire takes place during the spring, while Rabbit Seasoning takes place in the autumn. The third cartoon, Duck! Rabbit, Duck!, takes place in the winter). The short was produced by Edward Selzer for Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
It is considered to be among Jones' best and most important films. In Jerry Beck's 1994 book The 50 Greatest Cartoons, Rabbit Seasoning is listed at number 30.
Nursery Cryme is the third studio album by the English rock band Genesis, released on 12 November 1971 on Charisma Records. It was their first to feature drummer/vocalist Phil Collins and guitarist Steve Hackett. The album received a mixed response from critics and was not initially a commercial success; it did not enter the UK chart until 1974, when it reached its peak at No. 39. However, the album was successful in Continental Europe, particularly Italy.
Following extensive touring in support of their previous album Trespass (1970), which included the recruitment of Collins and Hackett, the band began writing and rehearsing for a follow-up in Luxford House, East Sussex, with recording following at Trident Studios. Nursery Cryme saw the band take a more aggressive direction of some songs, with substantially improved drumming. The opening piece, "The Musical Box" combined the band's trademark mix of twelve-string guitars with harsh electric guitars and keyboards. The song, a macabre fairy story set in Victorian Britain, became the inspiration for the album cover, and went on to be a live favourite. Collins brought a new dimension to the group, covering the majority of the backing vocals (including his first lead vocal with Genesis on "For Absent Friends") and bringing in a sense of humour on tracks like "Harold The Barrel". At Hackett's suggestion, Banks made more prominent use of the Mellotron on several tracks.
The band toured the UK and Europe for one year to promote the album, which raised their profile in both territories. The tour included a successful Italian leg in April 1972, where the group played to enthusiastic crowds. Nursery Cryme was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry in 2013.
Track List:
00:00 - The Musical Box
10:28- For Absent Friends
12:19 - The Return of the Giant Hogweed
20:25 - Seven Stones
25:35 - Harold The Barrel
28:37 - Harlequin
31:30 - The Fountain of Salmacis
Genesis:
Tony Banks – Hammond organ, Mellotron, piano, electric piano, 12-string guitar, backing vocals
Mike Rutherford – bass, bass pedals, 12-string guitar, backing vocals
Peter Gabriel – lead voice, flute, oboe, bass drum, tambourine
Steve Hackett – electric guitar, 12-string guitar
Phil Collins – drums, voices, percussion, lead vocals on "For Absent Friends", co-lead vocals on "Harold the Barrel" and "Harlequin" (uncredited)