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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. |
Thicker Than Water 1935
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RApWL0pY6l4 Comedy Dinner At Eight 1933 https://archive.org/download/hells-a...933%20720p.mp4 https://archive.org/details/hells-angel.-1930 Come To Dinner 1934 https://archive.org/details/ComeToDiner Parody |
The Whole Town's Talking 1935
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pNlNYPiHWM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vt59zCOfwc La Otra The Other 1946 https://archive.org/details/la-otra-1946-hd Spanish with seperate english subtitles. 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhwZShgqkwQ It is possible to get bad auto-generated english subtitles after some clicking. |
Grumpyskeptic, you must watch an awful lot of these. A lot of these are not long long after H.M Warner (in)famously said
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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 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 |
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This came up recently on something I was reading.
George Orwell's Animal Farm. I confess to not having watched it, it's not my thing. But if it's yours... |
Here's another one: Surviving Disaster - Chernobyl
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. |
Er, Sorry, forget that. It's 6 × 10 minute videos. Here's a better link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvc7s98Gdxw 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. |
Five Graves To Cairo 1943
https://archive.org/details/five-gra...3-billy-wilder and https://archive.org/details/BillyWilder Dames 1934 https://archive.org/details/Dms1934 Busby Berkeley comedy |
Deadline At Dawn 1946
https://archive.org/details/deadline-at-dawn-1946 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x205aox Female 1933 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsRaULvvtlI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIt4YgVNvEc Has irritating logo The Vandellas Nowhere To Run 1965 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNFDKm8F4hg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR9pvGtyiHg |
Only "Deadline at Dawn" has an imdb page. Are these unreleased gems... or the released lead balloons?
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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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