An advice for a good old movie to watch on YouTube?
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1943, IIRC. I'm torrenting it so I haven't watched this, but it looks like the full version. A quick search sets you straight if not.
Yes, this was 2 hours 40 minutes. There were various shorter versions made. It came out in 1943, despite Churchill trying to stop it.
The thing extracts the urine from the British way of doing things. They had senior officers who weren't appointed on merit, they were appointed on class, because they were aristocrats. By the end of 1942, the British were being beaten back and back in Africa by the German's inferior forces, and they had been beaten out of their Pacific colonies including what was then Burma under the leadership of these aristocratic but half-assed "good chaps" by less numerous Japanese who were very efficient in jungle warfare. Not only were they beaten, but it was perceived they hadn't really turned up at all, they had just given up.
Download the video and also this file la.otra.(1946).eng.1cd.(8534773).zip by clicking on "download" at https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/sub...773/la-otra-en (Try to avoid looking at the plot-spoiler description). Extract the .srt file and rename it to the same name as the .mp4 file, for example laotra.mp4 and laotra.srt, and place them in the same directory. Or the .srt and .mp4 files can be quickly wrapped together in a .mkv file using MKVToolNixGUI.
Do not download anything if it is unlawful where you live.
Teckk, if you're still scraping with your python script, can you try on http://www.rte.ie/player/ for either of these?
The Heiress and the Heist.
Kin
The Heiress and the Heist is about a british aristocrat Bridget Rose Dugdale, who rejected her toffee-nosed English upbringing and joined the Irish IRA side who was opposed by the Irish Protestant majority in Northern Ireland, and the British Army, Secret Service, and more than one of the 'special forces' that the British threw together in an attempt to quell the IRA uprising.
Public opinion was with the IRA in the Nationalist section of Northern Ireland and the much larger Republic, styrongly in the early 1970s. The 3-part series centres on the world's biggest art robbery ever.
There is a second series of Kin. The first was loosely based on the Hutch-Kinahan feud, which claimed 18 lives, and much weakened each gang. The second is fiction AFAICT. But it's more of the same
Last edited by business_kid; 07-22-2023 at 09:07 AM.
Reason: Corrections & clarifications
I torrented a thing on "Chernobyl - The New Evidence," as you can do that here. It was two parts on the Ukranian KGB files on Chernobyl. I found that I had not absorbed any of the essential information in the HBO 2019 Chernobyl mini-series about the 1986 disaster. So I grabbed that and rewatched it, taking notes as the Valery Legasov character was depicted HONESTLY explaining the Chernobyl Disaster in episode 5. I even took notes. Very informative. The whole thing made more sense then.
Now honestly explaining something sensitive publicly is not something you could do in the cold war USSR, so there were personal consequences for Legasov. His International standing saved his life, so he was left in suspended animation. No work, his old title but no authority, no job, etc. But he left tapes and committed suicide in 1988, and things were fixed after that. He had garnered an international reputation.
So I looked up the Wikipedia page on Legasov, as HBO omits the role of other scientists entirely. This is a 6 part BBC series. The HBO series is very good on the Science, but is weak on Legasov's personal struggles. I haven't watched this yet, but expect a different perspective at least.
That's one 60 minute video, as opposed to the 5 on HBO mini-series. What stuck with me with the HBO thing was that they invented one woman character involved to represent other scientists at home and abroad. In fact there were a considerable number of scientists under Legasov. He must have annoyed folks big time, but how I don't know, really.
Last edited by business_kid; 08-01-2023 at 01:41 PM.
Only "Deadline at Dawn" has an imdb page. Are these unreleased gems... or the released lead balloons?
Try watching them when you have some spare time and decide for yourself. All the movies have detailed entries on Wikipedia, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_(1933_film) , but looking at that beforehand will spoil the plot.
Last edited by grumpyskeptic; 08-12-2023 at 08:49 AM.
Well, being guided by the different filters imposed by both of us here, I'm afraid, for us anyhow, "Female" falls into the 'lead balloon' category.
1933 was a different time, of course. Superhet radio reception, & TV were all in the future. Your choices of entertainment were much fewer, and people going out were glad to see anything. In 1933, the midst of the Depression, the budget was also extremely tight.
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