Through the Wormhole S01E08 Beyond the Darkness HDTV XviD MOMENTUM
- July 29th, 2010
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Archive for the ‘Documentaries’ Category

Additional Info: Patient Zero is a stewardess, stricken with what she thinks is chickenpox. She goes to ground in a Montreal hotel room. A few weeks later, she’s back on the job, unaware of her role in an impending public health catastrophe. Pandemics have killed more people throughout history than all wars combined. They are unpredictable – and inevitable. Are we ready for the next big one? Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague juxtaposes a 21st century scenario against the little-known story of the 1885 smallpox epidemic that devastated Montreal. Combining brisk narrative with rigorous research, it vividly evokes a modern city under siege, drawing eerie parallels with 1885. Confronted with social unrest, ethnic scapegoating and economic ruin, authorities struggle to maintain control – and to contain a deadly infection.

Additional Info: Bill Kurtis takes a penetrating look at one of the strangest and most violent crimes in California history–the grisly 1969 murders of seven people by the deranged Charles Manson and his three female followers who believed he was Jesus Christ come again. Kurtis talks with prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi about the terror that swept through Los Angeles after the shocking killings and the bizarre “Helter Skelter” defense at the trial. Kurtis also examines the attempt to silence a key witness, the sudden disappearance of one defendant’s attorney, and the Manson Family’s obsession with drugs, sex, and violence. But most of all, Kurtis is haunted by one question: How could three young women from seemingly normal families turn into monsters?

Additional Info: Pixar’s turbulent beginnings from its days under the wing of George Lucas, to its independence, and subsequent purchase by Disney, this film covers all the studio’s crafts and major players, including Steve Jobs, who funded it in its early years. This film premiered at San Diego’s Comic Con, 2007.

Additional Info: Captain Phil Harris loses his battle for life while the boats – unaware of the news – battle the biggest storm of the season. Eventually, eldest son Josh breaks the news to the fleet and reactions are intense and unforgettable.

Additional Info: The Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” put India’s largest slum, Dharavi, on the map. Much more than a slum, this mini-city bustles with industry, culture and dreams. See the day-to-day activities and hear real-life accounts from its inhabitants, who have goals and aspirations — people who are struggling to survive in a community that defies expectation.

Additional Info: Documentary following a two-year operation by the Lancashire Constabulary’s Serious and Organised Crime Unit that culminated in the conviction of more than 20 people involved in an international gun smuggling ring. The film reveals how the police’s work exposed the extent of the trade in illegal weapons in one town in the north of England, and asks why guns have become increasingly prevalent on Britain’s streets.

Additional Info: Provocative documentary following the doctors who can now interrupt, and even reverse, the process of death. Filmed over six months in the country’s leading brain injury unit (Addenbooke’s Hospital, Cambridge), it follows the journey of a man who, by only moving his eyes, is eventually asked if he wants to live or die. Two other families are also plunged into the most ethically difficult decision in modern medicine.

Additional Info: Powering the Future is a four-part television event forecasting the world of energy in the not-too-distant future. We address the Earth’s energy challenge from every angle, and cut through the noise by establishing a simple target: a clean, limitless, and secure energy supply by the middle of this century. Powering the Future puts energy on the national stage with programming that builds to the inescapable logic: we must act.

Additional Info: Some call methamphetamine the “Devil’s Drug.” Often made in less than an hour from a common cold remedy, this powerful stimulant is sweeping across the U.S. and Asia. Follow a raid on a suspected meth lab, stake out a neighborhood pharmacy where addicts attempt to accumulate cold and flu pills, and meet a neuroscientist urgently searching for a cure for addiction. See the dangers of meth and the unexpected physical damages caused by the drug.

Additional Info: The supply chain of cocaine stretches around our world, bringing vast wealth to a few … and misery to millions. Follow its trail through the eyes of peasant farmers producing cocaine paste, a trafficker tied to Mexican cartels and a 28-year-old crack dealer in Miami’s poorest neighborhood. And literally see the true nature of cocaine addiction via revolutionary brain photography in a leading lab in Brookhaven, N.Y.

Additional Info: How Did We Get Here?
Everywhere we look, life exists in both the most hospitable of environments and in the most extreme. Yet we have only ever found life on our planet. How did the stuff of stars come together to create life as we know it? What do we really mean by ‘life’? And will unlocking this mystery help us find life elsewhere?

Additional Info: A haunting call echoes across the Liuwa Plain. There is no answer, there hasn’t been for years. She has no pride, no support – she alone must safeguard her own survival. Her name is Lady Liuwa, and she is the Last Lioness.
Isolated by a scourge of illegal trophy hunting that wiped out the rest of her species in the region, Lady Liuwa is the only known resident lion surviving on Zambia’s Liuwa Plain. For four years, cameraman Herbert Brauer watched her lonely life unfold, until, in her solitude, she reached out to him for companionship.
But Herbert knows he is not the companion this lonely lioness needs – she should be amongst her own kind. Now, in May of 2009, plans for a male lion translocation have come through, and there is hope for ending her isolation. Lady Liuwa will no longer be the Last Lioness – find out how she copes as lions return to her plain for the first time in over five years.

Additional Info: Jimmy Doherty sets out to learn more about the sort of matter-of-fact farmyard animals we rarely get all that excited about – and, well, cows just seem the perfect choice to kick us off. Jimmy delves into their ancestry (a sort of Moo Do You Think You Are? if you like . . .), looks at how they integrate with one another, puts them through a simple intelligence test – and reveals how this seemingly placid creature has the potential to become a killer. Jimmy also visits Chillingham Castle in Northumberland, where there’s a herd that’s run wild for 700 years.

Additional Info: Cain and Abel
Drama dominates the crews of the fleet during the mid-season grind. Jake and Josh Harris suffer a new falling-out with their father’s life hanging in the balance.
