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Category: BBC HorizonThe Lost Pyramids Of Caral
The magnificent ancient city of pyramids at Caral in Peru hit the headlines in 2001. The site is a thousand years older than the earliest known civilization in the Americas and, at 2,627 BC, is as old as the pyramids of Egypt. Many now believe it is the fabled missing link of archeology - a 'mother city'. If so, then these extraordinary findings could finally answer one of the great questions of archeology: why did humans become civilized? Tags: The Lost Pyramids Of Caral Views: 3035 Rating:  Posted By: admin |
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Category: PoliticsSpying on the Home Front
'So many people in America think this does not affect them. They've been convinced that these programs are only targeted at suspected terrorists. … I think that's wrong. … Our programs are not perfect, and it is inevitable that totally innocent Americans are going to be affected by these programs,' former CIA Assistant General Counsel Suzanne Spaulding tells FRONTLINE correspondent Hedrick Smith in “Spying on the Home Front.”
"Spying on the Home Front" also looks at a massive FBI data sweep in December 2003. On a tip that Al Qaeda "might have an interest in Las Vegas" around New Year's 2004, the FBI demanded records from all hotels, airlines, rental car agencies, casinos and other businesses on every person who visited Las Vegas in the run-up to the holiday. Stephen Sprouse and Kristin Douglas of Kansas City, Mo., object to being caught in the FBI dragnet in Las Vegas just because they happened to get married there at the wrong moment. Says Douglas, 'I'm sure that the government does a lot of things that I don't know about, and I've always been OK with that -- until I found out that I was included.' Tags: PBS Frontline Spying on the Home Front Views: 1020 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: BBC HorizonDogfighting Undercover
BBC-Dogfighting Undercover-August 30, 2007 Investigation into the secret and dangerous world of international dogfighting. For a year and a half, a BBC undercover team operated alongside dogfighting gangs in the UK and Europe, capturing on camera the savagery of organised fights. The film also reveals how American pitbull terriers - a banned breed created to be the ultimate canine gladiator - have been sold by the gangs into inner city Britain. Tags: Dogfighting Undercover Views: 2419 Rating:  Posted By: admin |
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Category: MysteryAtlantis Uncovered
Was there really, 12,000 years ago, a fabulous island city whose people had already evolved all the trappings of civilization - sophisticated culture and society, writing, astronomy, religion, monument-building - while everyone else was still living in the Stone Age? Tags: Atlantis Uncovered Views: 3498 Rating:  Posted By: admin |
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Category: SocietyStyle Wars
Anyone who has even a passing interest in Hip-Hop or its history owe it to themselves to see this film. It's an often times brilliant documentary about on of the most important art movements in the last century. Henry Chalfant is a true visionary who saw art where others saw only crime. His dedication and professionalism helped to bring street culture to a grand scale. If the train writers took graffiti All-City, Chalfant took it All-World.
Another reason to see this movie is to get an unfiltered look at the early foundations of Hip-Hop. Regardless of what the current marketing machine would have you believe Hip-Hop was a multi-cultural phenomenon. That means whites, Puerto Ricans, blacks, Mexicans and everything in between. It could only happen in New York. Tags: Style Wars Views: 1019 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: ScienceNew York City Hackers
This documentary looks at the "2600" community in New York City of today, its meetings and conferences, political annotations, and historically explores the roots of the definition 'hacking' amongst the model train enthusiasts at MIT..." Featuring: Kevin Mitnick, Eugene E.Kashpureff, and "Off the Hook" radio host Emmanuel Goldstein Tags: New York City Hackers Views: 1399 Rating: Posted By: admin |
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Category: SocietyCocaine Cowboys
"In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago - and it put the city on the map. 'Cocaine Cowboys' is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the people who made it all happen." -imdb.com Tags: Cocaine Cowboys Views: 5278 Rating: Posted By: admin |
