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Chasing the Moon (2019) #1205
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6x50 min. BBC. The story of the race to the Moon, from the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 to Apollo 11, and the first man to set foot on the Moon, in 1969. 1/6 A Place Beyond the Sky (Part One). America's race to the moon begins with Soviet Russia's launch of Sputnik 1. 2/6 A Place Beyond the Sky (Part Two). How America's space exploration technology caught up with the Soviet Union's. 3/6 Earthrise (Part One). A training exercise ends in tragedy risking the future of America's entire space programme. 4/6 Earthrise (Part Two). Within two years of the Apollo 1 tragedy, America sent a manned light to the moon. 5/6 Magnificent Desolation (Part One). The space race takes a new twist as US astronauts compete to be the first man on the moon. 6/6 Magnificent Desolation (Part Two). The world gathers around its television sets to watch Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. |
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Ian Hislop's Fake News: A True History (2019) #1218
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1 hour. BBC. Fake news is never out of today's headlines. But in his latest documentary taking the long view of a hot-button issue, Ian Hislop discovers fake news raking in cash or wreaking havoc long before our own confused, uncertain times. Ian mines history to identify what motivates fake news - from profit, power and politics to prejudice, paranoia and propaganda – as well as to try to figure out what to do about it. In America and back home, Ian meets, amongst others, someone whose fake news stories have reached millions and a victim of fakery alleged to be a mastermind of the spurious paedophile ring ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy. Viewers also get to see Ian doing something that has never been captured on film before – as he gets a taste of what it is like to be 'deepfaked'. In 1835, New Yorkers were fooled by one of the most entertaining and successful fake news scoops of all time - a tale of flying man-bats spied on the moon through the world’s most powerful telescope. The moon hoax story ran in a cheap, new tabloid - The Sun. Within decades, a circulation war waged between two pioneering press barons - Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst - was seen by many as causing a real war, between America and Spain. Meanwhile, another American conflict, the Civil War of the 1860s, had proved that photography, which initially promised new standards of accuracy, also brought new ways of lying. Ian looks at the battlefield images of pioneering photojournalist Alexander Gardner, who achieved ends by means that would be judged unethical today. He also encounters the spooky 'spirit photography' of William Mumler. Ian digs into one of the most pernicious conspiracy theories of all time - the protocols of the Elders of Zion. He is disturbed to find this virulently anti-Semitic tract available with one click and rave reviews on Amazon, despite comprehensive factual debunking a century ago. Ian also ponders the consequences of official British fake news-mongering. During WWI, lurid stories were spread about German factories manufacturing soap from corpses. But a consequence of such black propaganda was to undermine the currency of trust in government - rather like, Ian notes, the absence of WMDs in Iraq has more recently. To understand more about the current crisis, Ian meets James Alefantis, owner of the Washington DC pizzeria who fell victim to the ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy. He also quizzes ex-construction worker Christopher Blair, a controversial figure sometimes dubbed 'the godfather of fake news'. He discusses how frightened we should be about fake news, and what can be done about it, with Damian Collins MP who chaired the parliamentary inquiry into fake news. Collins argues that today's tech giants – Facebook in particular - should be taking even more active steps to take down disinformation. But that path also has its perils, as Ian finds out when he resurrects the extraordinary story of Victoria Woodhull, a woman who sued the British Museum for libel in the 1890s. This pioneering American feminist - the first woman who ran to be president - was an early victim of what today would be termed 'slut-shaming'. But does combatting lies give anyone the right to censor the historical record and limit free speech? |
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Wonders of the Moon (2018) #1160
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1 hour. BBC. Documentary which uses the latest, most detailed imagery to reveal the monthly life cycle of the moon. From Wales to Wyoming, Hong Kong to Croydon, the programme finds out how the moon shapes life on Earth, as well as exploring its mysterious dark side and discovering how the moon's journey around Earth delivers one of nature's most awe-inspiring events - a total solar eclipse. And at the end of a remarkable year of lunar activity, we find out why so many supermoons have been lighting up the night sky. |
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First Man (2018) #1387
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First Man: Directed by Damien Chazelle. With Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler. A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969 |
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Goodbye Cassini - Hello Saturn (2017) #1031
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1 hour. BBC. Horizon. A billion miles from home, running low on fuel, and almost out of time. After 13 years traversing the Saturn system, the spacecraft Cassini is plunging to a fiery death, becoming part of the very planet it has been exploring. As it embarks on its final assignment - a one-way trip into the heart of Saturn - Horizon celebrates the incredible achievements and discoveries of a mission that has changed the way we see the solar system. Strange new worlds with gigantic ice geysers, hidden underground oceans that could harbour life and a brand new moon coalescing in Saturn's magnificent rings. As the world says goodbye to the great explorer Cassini, Horizon will be there for with a ringside seat for its final moments. |
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Van Morrison: Live at Eden (2017) #1052
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1 hour. BBC. Van Morrison and his band at Cornwall's Eden Project July 2017, performing fourteen songs including well-known hits Here Comes the Night, Moondance and Brown Eyed Girl. The Belfast-born all-time music legend Sir Van Morrison played against the world-famous Eden biomes to a sold-out arena. Van's performance was a highlight of the sixteenth year of the Eden Sessions. Sir Van Morrison was knighted in 2016 for services to music and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has won six Grammys, a Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution and the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement. |
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Brigsby Bear (2017) #1125
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Directed by Dave McCary. With Kyle Mooney, Mark Hamill, Jane Adams, Greg Kinnear. After being freed from his life in an underground bunker, a man sets out to make a movie of the only TV show he has ever known. |
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Closer to the Moon (2014) #812
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Directed by Nae Caranfil. With Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd, Anton Lesser. A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie. |
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Classic Albums: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (2013) #607
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The programme looks at the legendary Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon with interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason. |
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Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (2013) #769
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1 hour. BBC. John Edginton's documentary explores the making of Pink Floyd's ninth studio album, Wish You Were Here, which was released in September 1975 and went on to top the album charts both in the UK and the US. Featuring new interviews with band members Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason alongside contributions from the likes of sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson and photographer Jill Furmanovsky, the film is a forensic study of the making of the follow-up to 1973's Dark Side of the Moon, which was another conceptual piece driven by Roger Waters. The album wrestles with the legacy of the band's first leader, Syd Barrett, who had dropped out of the band in 1968 and is eulogised in the album's centrepiece, Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Pink Floyd had become one of the biggest bands in the world, but the 60s were over and the band were struggling both to find their purpose and the old camaraderie. |
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012) #87
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Directed by Wes Anderson. With Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray. A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them. |
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The Sessions (2012) #275
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Directed by Ben Lewin. With John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood. A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest. |
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The Beauty of Diagrams (2010) #309
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60mins. Marcus du Sautoy. Including Dark Side of the Moon cover design. BBC. |
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The Beauty of Diagrams (2010) #809
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60mins. Marcus du Sautoy. Including Dark Side of the Moon cover design. BBC. |
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Moon (2009) #178
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Directed by Duncan Jones. With Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw. Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems. |
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Terminator Salvation (2009) #220
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Directed by McG. With Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood. In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted? |
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Avatar (2009) #299
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Directed by James Cameron. With Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez. A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. |
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Avatar (2009) #302
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Directed by James Cameron. With Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez. A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. On a single disk |
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) #314
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Directed by Chris Weitz. With Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Christina Jastrzembska. Edward leaves Bella after an attack that nearly claimed her life, and in her depression she falls into yet another paranormal relationship - this time with werewolf Jacob Black. |
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Halloween II (2009) #316
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Directed by Rob Zombie. With Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie. Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister. |