Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies [2001]

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001)
Xvid | 624×464 | 1h 30mins | 697MB

Pauline Kael once wrote that since movies were so rarely great art, if one weren’t interested in great trash, there wasn’t much reason to pay attention to them, and one could reasonably argue that few periods brought us more top-quality cinematic trash than the 1950s and ’60s. With drive-ins and grindhouses across the United States making room for low-budget exploitation films of all stripes (such as horror, science fiction, teen exploitation, biker films, beach pictures, nudies, and much more) as the major studios were focusing their attention on big-budget blockbusters and television, this was a boom time for inspired trash, and Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies takes a look at the low-budget wonders of the 1950s and ’60s, as well as the men and women who made them and the social and psychological subtexts lurking behind many of these movies. Schlock! includes interviews with Roger Corman, Peter Bogdanovich, David F. Friedman, Doris Wishman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Dick Miller, Vampira, and more.

The Occult History of the Third Reich

The Occult History of the Third Reich
Xvid | Parts:4 | 2.12GB

The Occult History of the Third Reich, starring Patrick Allen and directed by Dave Flitton is an English language 1991 four part History Channel documentary regarding the occult influences and history of the Nazi Era, (pre, during and post) in Germany.

The documentary was originally shown and released in four parts in 1991.

* Adolf Hitler
* The SS Blood and Soil
* The Enigma of the Swastika
* Himmler the Mystic

The documentary contains mainly black and white as well as some color archival footage, with narration explaining the influences of alternative belief systems (occult, paganism, mysticism, etc) on the Nazi ideology and Hitler’s personal philosophy. It also documents the history and development of the ideas and symbols that would be used along with eugenicist racial politics to perpetrate the murder and oppression of millions during World War II.

In the early 20th century, the young Adolf Hitler was just one of many German-speaking people attracted by a new Germanic mythology that combined ancient legends and esoteric cosmologies with cutting-edge theories of genetic science. In the hands of the Nazis, the result was a new ideology that saw racial purity as the key to human destiny.

This was a belief-system of arcane rituals and potent symbols, with the ancient swastika appropriated for the Nazi cause. By the time of the Third Reich, Hitler and the Nazis had evolved an entirely new faith, complete with holy book, venerated relics and a priestly elite in the form of Himmler’s SS. It was a religion based on obedience, power, and the cult of the leader, with Hitler himself conceived in Messianic terms.

BBC – To Kill a Mockingbird at 50 [2010]

BBC – To Kill a Mockingbird at 50 (2010)
x264 | 832×468 | 59mins | 633MB

Marking the 50th anniversary of the influential novel To Kill a Mockingbird, writer Andrew Smith visits Monroeville in Alabama, the setting of the book, to see how life there has changed in half a century.

BBC: The Gene Code [2011]

BBC – The Gene Code (2011)
Xvid | 720×416 | 59mins | 701MBx2

Dr Adam Rutherford takes the viewer on a rollercoaster ride as he explores the consequences of one of the biggest scientific projects of all time – the decoding of the entire human genome in 2000.

Part 1: The Book of Life
The Book of Life Adam discovers that every human carries the entire story of life on earth hidden in his or her DNA and sees how we are all linked directly to the origins of life and to the first creatures with backbones. He also investigates the implications of the fact that for much of its existence, the human race was an endangered species.

Part 2: Unlocking the Code
Adam shows how decoding the genome has led us to begin to understand the very process by which our DNA makes us different; how it makes each one of us on earth unique and influences who we are and the traits we have. He reveals how, as we try and understand the relationship between who we are and our genes, we stand at the beginning of the most exciting scientific journey of all time.

National Geographic – Taboo – Season 1 [2002] (Complete)
Xvid | 432×320 | MP3 | 128kbps | 4.44GB

Taboo takes you on a journey beyond the comfort zones and across cultural borders to explore rituals and customs that are acceptable in some cultures, but forbidden, illegal or, reviled in others. Understand seemingly bizarre and shocking practices from around the world.