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
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
Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975 through Harvest Records in the UK and Columbia Records in the US, their first for the label. Based on material Pink Floyd composed while performing in Europe, Wish You Were Here was recorded over numerous sessions throughout 1975 at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) in London.
The themes include alienation and criticism of the music business. The bulk of the album is taken up by "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", a nine-part tribute to founding member Syd Barrett, who left the band seven years earlier due to his deteriorating mental health. Barrett coincidentally visited during the album's production in 1975. Like their previous record, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Pink Floyd used studio effects and synthesisers. Guest singers included Roy Harper, who provided the lead vocals on "Have a Cigar", and Venetta Fields, who added backing vocals to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". To promote the album, the band released the double A-side single "Have a Cigar" / "Welcome to the Machine".
Labyrinth is a soundtrack album by David Bowie and composer Trevor Jones, released in 1986 for the film Labyrinth. It was the second of three soundtrack releases in which Bowie had a major role, following Christiane F. (1981) and preceding The Buddha of Suburbia (1993). The soundtrack album features Jones' score, which is split into six tracks for the soundtrack: "Into the Labyrinth", "Sarah", "Hallucination", "The Goblin Battle", "Thirteen O'Clock", and "Home at Last".
Tracklist:
0:00 Opening Titles
3:20 Into the Labyrinth
5:31 Magic Dance
10:43 Sarah
13:54 Chilly Down
17:40 Hallucination
20:42 As the World Falls Down
25:34 The Goblin Battle
29:06 Within You
32:35 Thirteen O'Clock
35:44 Home at Last
37:32 Underground
Personnel
Credits per biographer Nicholas Pegg.
Musicians
David Bowie – vocals, backing vocals, producer
Arif Mardin – producer
Trevor Jones – keyboards, producer
Ray Russell – lead guitar
Albert Collins – guitar
Dann Huff – guitar
Paul Westwood – bass guitar
Will Lee – bass guitar
Matthew Seligman – bass guitar
Neil Conti – drums
Steve Ferrone – drums
Robbie Buchanan – keyboards, synthesizer
Brian Gascoigne – keyboards
David Lawson – keyboards
Ray Warleigh – saxophone
Bob Gay - saxophone
Maurice Murphy – trumpet
Robin Beck – backing vocals
Chaka Khan – backing vocals
Cissy Houston – backing vocals
Danny John-Jules – backing vocals
Fonzi Thornton – backing vocals
Luther Vandross – backing vocals
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.
Fay Weldon said of the series: "There is, in the making of such programmes, a level of professionalism, and sheer patient, largely unacclaimed, hard work from producer to script editor to writer to designer to vision mixer to editor by way of sound and lighting engineers that is probably equalled only in a heart transplant theatre".
Starring: Bernard Hepton as Albert Foiret, Jan Francis as Lisa "Yvette" Colbert, Christopher Neame as Flight Lt. John Curtis, Angela Richards as Monique Duchamps, Clifford Rose as Gestapo Sturmbannführer Ludwig Kessler,
Michael Culver as Luftwaffe Major Erwin Brandt, Juliet Hammond-Hill as Natalie Chantrens, Valentine Dyall as Dr Pascal Keldermans, Ron Pember as Alain Muny, Eileen Page as Andrée Foiret, Robin Langford as Cpl. Veit Rennert
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
Piker's Peak is a 1957 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on May 25, 1957, and stars Bugs Bunny. The title is a pun on Pike's Peak, although that respected mountain summit is in North America rather than in Europe.
Soundtrack:
"Bad Swiss Band" (sendoff music). Written by Carl Stalling
"When I'd Yoo-Hoo in the Valley (to My Lulu in the Hills)", uncredited. Written by Henry Russell and Murray Martin
"Little Brown Jug", uncredited. Written by Joseph Winner
"The Bartered Bride, Opening Chorus", uncredited. Written by Bedřich Smetana
+++ This weekend marks the 2014th anniversary of this battle - Alex +++
Part 2 features the legendary battle in the Teutoburg Forest. Arminius knows that the disciplined Romans are superior to the Germanic warriors. Therefore, he wants to exploit the trust of Varus' and to lead the Romans into the rugged forests of Germania, where they would attack. They almost see through his trickery: Segestes, the old clan leader of Cherusci and ally of Rome tries to warn Varus. But the thought that a man raised and educated in Rome such as Arminius could switch sides was unimaginable. Varus gives no credence to the accusations, orders the march, and leads his legions into ruin.
Gruppe 5 title: "Arminius: Enemy of Rome"
A Gruppe 5 production for German public-service television ZDF, shared here for non-profit educational purposes.
Degüello is the sixth studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in November 1979. It was the first ZZ Top release on Warner Bros. Records and eventually went platinum. It was produced by Bill Ham, recorded and mixed by Terry Manning, and mastered by Bob Ludwig.
Returning from a two-year hiatus, the band began to showcase the influence they have collected during the time away; Gibbons' time in Europe introduced him to punk music,[4] the influences of which seeped into the creation of the album. The band also consciously tried experimenting with technology: Gibbons saw an episode of The Phil Donahue Show where a person's identity was protected using silhouette and a pitch shifter; liking the sound, he asked engineer Manning to call the show and find out what the effects unit was. Manning eventually convinced a reluctant show producer to reveal it, and the effect was used for both vocals and guitars on songs like "Manic Mechanic".
The album marked the first time that ZZ Top featured cover versions on a studio album: "I Thank You" by Isaac Hayes/David Porter and "Dust My Broom", credited on early editions to Elmore James but subsequently credited to Robert Johnson who recorded it in 1936. Elmore James had adapted and popularized the song in 1951.
The song "Hi Fi Mama" was later featured on the episode "The Twist in the Twister" of the TV series Bones, where Gibbons also guest starred.
Tracklist:
01. I Thank You - 0:00
02. She Loves My Automobile - 3:25
03. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide - 5:49
04. Fool For Your Stockings - 10:42
05. Manic Mechanic - 14:58
06. Dust My Broom - 17:35
07. Low Down In The Street - 20:44
08. Hi Fi Mama - 23:35
09. Cheap Sunglasses - 26:00
10. Esther Be The One - 30:49
ZZ Top
Billy Gibbons – guitar, vocals, baritone saxophone
Dusty Hill – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocal on "Hi Fi Mama", tenor saxophone
Frank Beard – drums, percussion, alto saxophone
I, Claudius is a 1976 BBC Television adaptation of Robert Graves' I, Claudius and Claudius the God. Written by Jack Pulman, it was one of the corporation's most successful drama serials of all time.
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I, Claudius - 7 - Reign Of Terror
Rome, AD 30–31. Tiberius has retired to Capri. Sejanus consolidates his hold on power in Rome by engineering the banishment of Agrippina and her eldest son Nero and having her other son Drusus arrested and starved to death.
Derek Jacobi – Claudius
George Baker – Tiberius
Patrick Stewart – Sejanus
John Hurt – Caligula