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Advantages: So interesting, fun to watch, educational Disadvantages: I want more episodes!!
I really love 'The Life Collection' from David Attenborough. The complete series of 'Life in the Freezer' was the third dvd of the collection that I bought.
The series itself has six episodes which are all on one disc. They were originally transmitted in 1993.
The six episodes are:
Episode 1: The Bountiful Sea - All about the Southern Antarctic Ocean and the species in it
Episode 2: The Ice Retreats - About when Spring comes and the wildlife ... ...the extreme conditions and how life continues, against all the odds.
Episode 6: Footsteps In The Snow - The first man to stand in the South Pole and the struggle to get there.
The dvd has a total running time of 174 minutes and each episode is around 30 minutes long.
There are no special features on this dvd apart from the option of 'scene selection', this is quite a common feature on dvds these days, and nothing that special but it is nice and ...
Advantages: Nice insight into parts of his life Disadvantages: Not really long enough to go into alot of detail
If you've never heard of Bruce Lee then frankly you must have been living under a rock for the past 40 odd years, Bruce Lee was to martial arts what Elvis Presley and The Beatles were the modern music. His impact of the world of martial arts was unprecedented and since his legacy no one has ever managed to replicate the mammoth success that he had. Without Bruce Lee there would be no Jackie Chan or Jet Li as he managed to change the way people see ... ...across the globe. Bruce Lee was born on the 27th November 1940 in America yet all his family were of Chinese origin. He started practising the art of Wing Chun which is a popular style of Kung Fu and quickly became a master at his craft. After appearing in TV Shows and several Hollywood blockbusters which were centred around his craft, he became a legend in the industry before his untimely death on the 20th July 1973 at the age of 32, there have ...
Advantages: Riefenstahl herself is completely fascinating; raises important questions about art and social responsibilty, guilt. Disadvantages: None. Terribly long op, though.
...as a kid, poring over the still photographs in the Motion Picture section of the Encyclopedia Britannica and being amazed to learn that 'Triumph of the Will', the landmark documentary film of the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, Germany, was made by a woman-one Leni Riefenstahl. Although I have never seen the documentary in its entirety, I have seen enough excerpts of it to be impressed by the grandiloquent, Wagnerian opus. However, artistically ... ...more fascinating than either of the two films that brought her renown: the aforementioned 'Triumph of the Will' ('Triumph des Willens'; 1935) and 'Olympia' (1938). The first is described by many film historians as the best-made propaganda film ever. The second is the much-praised dramatic coverage of the XI Olympic Games held in Berlin in 1936, when Hitler was riding high as head of the supposedly Thousand Year Reich, and the same Olympics in which ...
Advantages: makes you think, can be motivating Disadvantages: none
...faced bunch of Royal Marine Commando recruits all the way through 32 weeks of basic training. With complete access to every part of the training process he follows the good times and the bad of each of the recruits and something that I felt made the documentary that little more exciting was that he also took part in the training himself, Chris Terrill was 55 years old. The Program was originally aired in 2007 for ITV; at the beginning you see the ... ...of becoming a Royal Marine Commando and receiving the coveted Green Beret so that they can become elite soldiers that look a million miles away from the guys that they were 32 weeks earlier. After the 32 weeks training Chris follows a few of the successful soldiers when they are posted to Afghanistan for a tour of duty, as well as a new officer who takes up his post in Afghanistan for his first tour with a mainly rookie company of men. I managed ...
Advantages: Cheap prices Disadvantages: Cheap labour
With the slave trade debate raging last year during the 200 commerations its always important to note that not only is that particular trade is still alive and well in the third world but its as good as here in its modern form in companies like Wal-Mart. Well meaning and angry people may well protest alongside some vegetarians banging a drum in London about what happened 200 years ago but most of the labeled clothing we are wearing will have been ... ...the products piled high in the huge shopping arenas of Wal-Mart and the like are the products of cheap and exploited labor somewhere around the world and when the documentary explores those sweat shops in South East Asia our arguments of reparation begin to fragment. In one segment you see young Chinese girls living in cramped dorms in a grubby factory, the gates locked at night, weekly rent and utilities deducted from their meager pay packets, whether ...
