Thecollectionblog: juli 2018

donderdag 19 juli 2018

Zero Days (2016)

A documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target.

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Iraq's Secret War Files (2010)

Dispatches, Channel 4's flagship current affairs strand, using the Wikileak's data, exposes the full and unreported horror of the Iraqi conflict and its aftermath, revealing the true scale of civilian casualties; that, even after the scandal of Abu Ghraib, American soldiers continued to abuse prisoners; and that US forces did not systematically intervene in the torture and murder of detainees by the Iraqi security services.

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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)

Opening with the news of Internet "hacktivist" Aaron Swartz's untimely death at the age of 26, "The Internet's Own Boy" traces the rise and fall of a tech industry prodigy. Interviews with his friends and loved ones paint a portrait of Swartz as a martyr of freedom of information and hail his fight for the public's right to access tax-funded academic and scientific research, culminating in a personally devastating two-year Federal lawsuit.

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Africa's Secret War (2018)

France and America are leading counter-terrorism operations in the Sahara desert amid fears IS fighters driven from Iraq and Syria are heading there to create a new caliphate.

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The KGB Dissident (2010)

While the world knows of the KGB spies and agents who crossed over to the West, few know of this tale of secret dissention from within. There is one officer, Viktor Orekhov, who went from repression of dissidents to joining their cause.

After months and months of searching, the filmmaker tracked down Orekhov and now brings his story to the world.

Illustrated with the unique testimonies of Viktor Orekhov, now 65, archives and accurately re-enacted sequences, the documentary tells the story of a man who braved an impenetrable system and dared to challenge the KGB.

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woensdag 18 juli 2018

Andy McNabs Tour of Duty: Series 1(2009)

Andy McNab’s Tour Of Duty: Series 1 Six-part series presented by former SAS soldier Andy McNab. From weapons and tactics to medical treatment and the chain of command, Andy provides the viewer with extraordinary insights into the deadly threats that British soldiers in Basra and Helmand face on a daily basis.

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Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6

zondag 15 juli 2018

Wings Over Vietnam: The Missions (2002)

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Vietnam a Televisions History (1983)

The origins of the series reach back to 1977 when filmmaker Richard Ellison and foreign correspondent Stanley Karnow discussed the project. The latter had been a journalist in Paris during the 1950s and a reporter in French Indochina since 1959. Karnow was Chief Correspondent in the series and his tie-in book, Vietnam: A History (1983), became a best-seller.

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zaterdag 14 juli 2018

4 Years of Thunder (1996)

World War I was the first time aeroplanes were deployed for warfare. The then rickety flying machines fought crucial dogfights as both sides struggled for air supremacy. Flying aces like Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, won fame and glory for their aerial expertise. Four Years of Thunder reveals, for the first time, the inside story of the air war in World War I with the use of some of the most stunning and authentic footage ever assembled.

Episode 1 ; Flying to War
Episode 2 ; The Fokker Scourge
Episode 3 ; Bloody April
Episode 4 ; Winged Victory

20th Century Battlefields (2007)

Episode 1: 1918 Western Front
Episode 2: 1942 Midway
Episode 3: 1942 Stalingrad
Episode 4: 1951 Korea
Episode 5: 1968 Vietnam
Episode 6: 1973 Middle East
Episode 7: 1982 Falklands
Episode 8: 1991 Gulf War

15 Years of Terror (2016)

On September 11, 2001, an unimaginable horror unfolded that devastated a nation and the world. Fifteen years later, we are still gripped by terror, but it has transformed. The attacks have been coming fast and furious—to Boston, Paris, Brussels, San Bernardino, Orlando, Nice—but they are no longer commanded by a central entity.

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BattleField Detectives (2003)

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1. Stalingrad

donderdag 12 juli 2018

Combat Trains: Series (2016)

Nazi Railways
Death Railways
Ambulance Trains
The First Railroad War
Precious Cargo
Secrets and Lies
World War One
World War Two

Militairy Channel Gun Camera (2005)

From the precision weapons of modern war to the aerial ballet of a dogfight, the gun camera has been a tool of reconnaissance and tactics since the dawn of flight and mechanized warfare. Climb into the cockpit as gun camera footage from nearly a century of war is analyzed, sometimes down to the frame, by a team of experts and the men who lived it.

Moving Targets
Air Supremacy
Fixed Targets

zondag 8 juli 2018

Baghdad Bomb Squad (2005)

Unreported World gains unprecedented and exclusive access to the Baghdad Bomb Squad. Nine years after the invasion and with the British and the Americans gone, Iraq still faces almost daily attacks from those trying to foment political chaos and sectarian hatred. Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Alex Nott spend time with a small band of brave Iraqi officers trying to prevent further murderous attacks.

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Frontline Episodes

Frontline - Private Warriors (2005)
Frontline - Syria's Second Front (2014)
Frontline - Terror in Little Saigon (2015)
Frontline - The Mind of Hussein (1991)
Frontline - The Tank Man (2006)
Frontline - American Terrorist (2015)
Frontline - Terror in Europe (2016)
Frontline - 9 11 to the boston bombings (2013)
Frontline - The Gulf War Part 1 (1996)
Frontline - The Gulf War Part 2 (1996)

for now.

zaterdag 7 juli 2018

Victory in the Pacific

“Take no prisoners. Fight to the bitter end.” Those were everyday words to combat troops on both sides at the end of World War II in the Pacific. And they led to an unprecedented orgy of slaughter. In this provocative, thorough examination of the final months of the war, American Experience looks at the escalation of bloodletting from both Japanese and American vantage points.As the film shows, most of Emperor Hirohito's inner circle was determined to continue the war even after losses in the Philippines in February 1945 cut off Japan's supply lines. And though he was warned that the country, brought to its knees by the conflict, might erupt in a Communist revolution, Hirohito believed that one last decisive battle could reverse Japan's fortunes.The Americans, for their part, were startled by the intensity and determination of the Japanese defenders in the South Pacific.From the U.S. capture of the Mariana Islands through the firebombing of Tokyo and the dropping of the atomic bomb, this program chronicles the dreadful and unprecedented loss of life, and the decisions made by leaders on both sides that finally ended the war.

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The Secret War on Terror

War Documentary hosted by Peter Taylor, published by BBC in 2011 - English narration

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Battle of The Bulge

As World War Two was drawing towards its close, in late 1944, the Western Allies were infected with the over-confidence that flowed from the sweeping victories they had gained four months earlier, and that had carried them to the borders of the Third Reich. They were confident that the war would soon be over.

In mid-December 1944, American General Dwight D Eisenhower was also in relaxed mood. He had just received a fifth star, becoming General of the Army. And on the evening of 16 December, he was to meet General Omar Bradley, commander of US 12th Army Group, at his headquarters in Versailles, to discuss the Allied manpower shortage problem and then play a few hands of bridge.
But the German leader, Adolf Hitler, had been planning his last great offensive in the west. And as Bradley arrived for his game of bridge, reports were beginning to filter in of enemy activity in the Ardennes, a range of rolling, heavily-forested hills and steep-sided valleys in eastern Belgium and Luxembourg. Bradley dismissed the reports as nothing more than details of localised fighting, but Eisenhower immediately sensed danger, telling Bradley, 'That's no spoiling attack!'

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Triple Cross: Bin Laden's Spy in America (2006 TV Movie)

This is the true story of Egyptian spy Ali Mohamed. He infiltrated U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA and FBI, and joined the U.S. Army. At the same time, he took orders from the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization and later joined forces with al Qaeda. He trained Osama bin Laden's jihadist warriors and helped plan terrorist attacks including the 1998 African embassy bombings.

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