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Advantages: Research for history; politics and psychology, education. Disadvantages: None
This film which I have in my private collection of rare and classic films was made by the brilliant Leni Riefenstahl who in 1934 was only in her twenties when Adolf Hitler commissioned her to direct and film his political rally at Nuremberg. To appreciate the film is to look first into the brilliance and artistry of one of the greatest women directors of our time. In the early years of sound film, Riefenstahl was ahead of her time, employing new ... ...Hitler and his inner circle of ministers, including Josef Goebbels, are at their malevolent best, seen almost surreal-like through the camera lens which travels everywhere, from the approach to Nuremberg, the preparations of the thousands upon thousands of young soldiers, panning on a slice of their military lives. We see young soldiers joking, laughing, others preparing giant pots of food, still others engaged in ablutions. Then we see the youthfulness ...
Advantages: Easy to watch withs continous interviews throught Disadvantages: No real disadvantages.
I got Touching the Void as a present form a climber friend who thought I would like it. When I watched the dvd for the first time I did not know exactly what it was about. However once I started to watch I was gripped to the TV. This documentary is about an experiance that two climbers; Joe Simpson and Simon Yates had in Peru in 1985. Tragedy struck the pair while on descent form a mountain in a storm, Joe fell and broke his leg badly. When Simon ... ...on their hands and Simon would have to do most of the work. Simon began lowering Joe rope lenght at a time. Then without Simon being aware, Joe was being lowered over a steep cliff. Simon having felt the rope tighten thought Joe had fell. After some time Simon had to cut the rope as to not fall to the same fate as Joe. However Joe was still alive and when the rope was cut Joe fell at least 80ft into a crevasse. The story then is about survial for ...
Advantages: excellent acting and story, amazing fight scenes, showed both the good and bad Disadvantages: None from me
...tell me just how good Tyson was back in his day so when I spotted this DVD I though it would be good to learn about the man and see just how good he was.
The film starts with Mike being a young boy and getting into scrapes with the other kids in his area, he was a troubled young boy and by the time he was 13 he had been arrested over 35 times. Mike got a break with something that he loved by Cus D’Amato when he was spotted in the ring in his local ... ...wife and soon changed his ways and proved what a good fighter he was. We are shown Mike making his way through the amateur circuit and finally being given the professional status and having his legendry title fight at the age of 20. Despite being dedicated to his boxing we do see that there is still a dark side to Mike and this is apparent when he goes after the ladies. Of course we all know the outcome of the fight and Mike went on to become the ...
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 ...
