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History Buffs, I give you the Spanish Civil War in 6 parts.

Now incorporating Opening List

Rugby
A Year with Connacht Rugby
Living With Lions 1997 (3 parts)

Military History
Spanish Civil War in 6 Parts
The Great War BBC 1964 in 26 Parts
World at War (WWII) BBC in 23 Parts
The Battlefields of WWII
A Savage Christmas - Hong Kong 1941
For King & Empire WW1
For King & Country WWII
Six Days War
This Week in WWI
When Georgia Howled - Sherman's March to the sea

General History
Worst jobs in History
Full Steam Ahead (UK Railways)
Timeline World History Series
History of Hollywood in 13 Parts
Death of Yugoslavia in 6 Parts
The Cold War in 23 Parts
Fall of Milosevic in 3 Parts
History of Ireland in 5 parts
Reeling in the years
A Television History of Ireland in 13 parts
Coolies - How the British reinvented Slavery


Sports
Hitman Hart: wrestling with shadows
A Political Game; Rugby & Apartheid
When We Were Kings
Love, Speed, and Loss - (motorsport)
Boxing Legendary Nights (documentary) - Arturo Gatti v Micky Ward trilogy

Current Affairs
Drug Laws Don't Work
Nightmares; The Rish of the Politics of Fear in 3 Parts
Princes of Yen (Central Bankers)

Miscellaneous
King of Kong
Exit through the gift shop
Dog Meat Professionals - South Korea (2017)
Buster Keaton
Homeless mayhem, recycling, and bombing hills in shopping carts in Vancouver BC
The Third Industrial Revolution
RTE's Hands Series on the dying crafts of Ireland in 13 parts
BBC Robotics in 3 parts
Living with Dementia
Human Planet
The Bridge - Mental Health/Suicide

I thought this was a "justice 4" thread

Carry on

Nice one Mullet. Interesting to note how that series and World at War started with the same idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4g4ZZ ... 7aZI9RDnfn

The Battlefields of World War 2 series is also grand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKYbLUkIpk&t=5s

I unashamedly love the BBC's ________ Farm series with Ruth, Peter, and Alex or Tom.

Tudor Monastery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1ERDYjsHBg
Victorian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4apIM4l0laY
Edwardian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcBl4_2FJX4
Wartime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUsU5s0ofYo

... and about the rail network, Full Steam Ahead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5cqWZZUioQ


If you're interested in Canadian history, these two were instrumental in me becoming a history geek when young. I'm not sure how accurate they are, but just noticed a bunch of vitriol about the inaccuracies in a brand new CBC one. Also, the narrators have incredible voices if you're one of those freaks who uses such things to relax.

Origins: A History of Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK5GTH4 ... Ai3jv6wuDU


The Valour and the Horror series (which pissed off vets at the time who felt they were being negatively portrayed, but it felt fairly even handed to me as they did bomb German cities - on orders - and probably did execute POWs, as probably everyone did in isolated incidents)

A Savage Christmas - Hong Kong 1941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CJJhqSXSuQ

Death By Moonlight - Bomber Command (hopefully not geoblocked)
https://www.nfb.ca/film/death_by_moonli ... r_command/

In Desperate Battle - Normandy 1944
https://www.nfb.ca/film/in_desperate_ba ... andy_1944/

... if the above two aren't geoblocked, our National Film Board has been legendary for documentaries over the years. With all the big money films from our neighbours, we seemingly didn't try to compete and instead focused on doing really good documentaries (not sure if that reputation still holds, though, given how much American and British content our networks buy).


More recently produced ...

For King & Empire (WW1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRjxUNrs1pg

For King & Country (WW2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOagu8N1DRM

In Korea (Canadians in the Korean War)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R93uzzuRVc

Top work guys

Worst Jobs in History, according to Baldrick

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL63D956BC489378A5

Loving this thread already. Keeping adding them please!

Timeline World History Documentaries

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC88lvyJe7aHZmcvzvubDFRg


The Great War (youtube original, week by week events that just wrapped up as he was doing it on the 100th anniversary of each)

https://m.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar

Last one I can think of, for the true crime fanatics. Not long docs, but official full episodes of several series by Film Rise... including Forensic Files, Unsolved Mysteries (with Dennis Farina, not Robert Stack, unfortunately), FBI Files, New Detectives, Mug Shots ... and others not related to crime like Urban Legends and World of Discovery.

https://www.youtube.com/user/FilmRiseDo ... /playlists

EverReady wrote:One about Hollywood from Thames television in 1980. 13 part epic job and some of the original silent stars still alive
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yS37kyfnGy4

Same youtube uploader has a 5 parter pornography one that I remember being good https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4akBblB2K1Q

Do you mean they were still alive in 1980, or some are still alive today? They'd have to be over 100 years old?

Thanks for the great thread, by the way. I'm starting with the Spanish Civil War doc.

Great thread boys...

"The death of Yugoslavia"

6 part BBC series on YouTube. Utterly brilliant and detailed.

EverReady wrote:Mullet this Spanish Civil War yoke is exceptional

Yeah it's excellent, great to hear it all first hand.

Loving the World at War I must say, probably 10 years since I watched it last.

Nieghorn wrote:Worst Jobs in History, according to Baldrick

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL63D956BC489378A5

This was good, Dan Snow did something similar - Filthy Cities

Nieghorn wrote:I unashamedly love the BBC's ________ Farm series with Ruth, Peter, and Alex or Tom.

Tudor Monastery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1ERDYjsHBg
Victorian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4apIM4l0laY
Edwardian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcBl4_2FJX4
Wartime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUsU5s0ofYo

... and about the rail network, Full Steam Ahead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5cqWZZUioQ


If you're interested in Canadian history, these two were instrumental in me becoming a history geek when young. I'm not sure how accurate they are, but just noticed a bunch of vitriol about the inaccuracies in a brand new CBC one. Also, the narrators have incredible voices if you're one of those freaks who uses such things to relax.

Origins: A History of Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK5GTH4 ... Ai3jv6wuDU


The Valour and the Horror series (which pissed off vets at the time who felt they were being negatively portrayed, but it felt fairly even handed to me as they did bomb German cities - on orders - and probably did execute POWs, as probably everyone did in isolated incidents)

A Savage Christmas - Hong Kong 1941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CJJhqSXSuQ

Death By Moonlight - Bomber Command (hopefully not geoblocked)
https://www.nfb.ca/film/death_by_moonli ... r_command/

In Desperate Battle - Normandy 1944
https://www.nfb.ca/film/in_desperate_ba ... andy_1944/

... if the above two aren't geoblocked, our National Film Board has been legendary for documentaries over the years. With all the big money films from our neighbours, we seemingly didn't try to compete and instead focused on doing really good documentaries (not sure if that reputation still holds, though, given how much American and British content our networks buy).


More recently produced ...

For King & Empire (WW1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRjxUNrs1pg

For King & Country (WW2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOagu8N1DRM

In Korea (Canadians in the Korean War)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R93uzzuRVc

Just watched the Death By Moonlight, It gives me some idea of what my father went through. He is 99 now but rarely talks about it, I know he was transfered to the 431 "Iroquois" Canadian squadron after the Neremburg raid in 1943. A lot of British aircrew were seconded to the RCAF to make up crew shortages and he did a full tour with them.

Wrestling fans will most likely have seen this already, but it's definitely worth a watch

Hitman Hart: wrestling with shadows https://youtu.be/L3wZhA5s3kI

GWO2 wrote:
Just watched the Death By Moonlight, It gives me some idea of what my father went through. He is 99 now but rarely talks about it, I know he was transfered to the 431 "Iroquois" Canadian squadron after the Neremburg raid in 1943. A lot of British aircrew were seconded to the RCAF to make up crew shortages and he did a full tour with them.

Amazing.

I think Bomber Command vets were most pissed off with their portrayal, but from memory I don’t think it accused them for doing what Harris asked them to do. I think it might have been the first time here that a big documentary was showing our ‘grey’ elements of war in contrast to the older white/black narrative, which still comes across as we were fighting the Nazis ffs.

A rather long essay on its impact, if interested... https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archiva ... 1901/12854

World at war drops off youtube after episode 3

Here is 4
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x125egp

World at War is OK if you don't mind skipping the Russian side of things.
There are 26 episodes

A Political Game- a story of Rugby and Apartheid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np3LCojFOiY

Covers the rivalry between NZ and SA

Gert wrote:A Political Game- a story of Rugby and Apartheid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np3LCojFOiY

Covers the rivalry between NZ and SA

Naki already covered it.

Uthikoloshe wrote:World at War is OK if you don't mind skipping the Russian side of things.
There are 26 episodes

You can watch The Unknown War to get the Russian side.

Do any of the history/doco buffs on here know if the Unknown War the same as Blood on the Stone (or something similar ... I'm pretty sure that's what it was called when I watched at summer school in 1995).

King of Kong - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4v15X8Px34
Donkey Kong high score hilarity.

Exit through the gift shop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evbHCAn4jto
Street Art doco - Hilarious.

24 part Cold War series.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... Ck9Zw0dGke

I have my watching until Christmas sorted anyway

I've posted this before in other threads, but worth posting again.

Drug Laws Don't Work: The Phoney War: (Dispatches), by Nick Davies 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC_nrLIc2Zk

Drug Laws Don't Work: The Phoney War
Journalist Nick Davies argues that heroin should be legalised. Now, that may seem a bit desperate-to-be-controversial-Ch4, but in fact the arguments for legalisation are incredibly strong (read Street Drugs by Andrew Tyler for a factual summation of the drug's history that makes legalisation seem like the only sane option).
Heroin is highly addictive, but in its pure form its other physical side-effects are mild - constipation and drowsiness.

It's the heroin on the black market, mixed for profit with stuff like sand, that causes problems.

Most intelligent people know this, as well as the fact that legalisation isn't a vote winner, and that wasting money on enforcing the existing laws is.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... y-War.html

quite possibly the GOAT sports documentary

When We Were Kings in full HD.

A documentary of the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in Zaire, "The Rumble in the Jungle," between champion George Foreman and underdog challenger Muhammad Ali.

I also enjoy the 15-20 minutes put out by the Visualpolitik channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT3v6v ... loLMc8pmCw

WWII from Space:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/ ... _visually/

18 hours into the World at War and still going strong!

For those who might be at the end here is the superb BBC series The Great War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtdSoeYQYk

Outstanding thread top work all

I might try to keep them all in the OP to make it easier

I'll get them all pasted in this afternoon

Ended up watching 'The Wargame' recently. It was banned by the BBC on release as it was a bit too realisitic in its depction of a nuclear strike on the UK. It was finally aired in 1985.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzd_VE-bfhA

Bit different to the rest of those on the thread but this 3 part on Buster Keaton is excellent. From 1987, but lots of interviews with the man himself in later life. Amazing man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qB-lZZhubM

Dog Meat Professionals - South Korea (2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCdTceduKcY&t=1175s

sturginho wrote:Wrestling fans will most likely have seen this already, but it's definitely worth a watch

Hitman Hart: wrestling with shadows https://youtu.be/L3wZhA5s3kI

BokJock wrote:

sturginho wrote:Wrestling fans will most likely have seen this already, but it's definitely worth a watch

Hitman Hart: wrestling with shadows https://youtu.be/L3wZhA5s3kI

Slight tangent but if you havent listened to it yet Jake the Snake's interview on the Joe Rogan podcast is pretty epic, especially on the stuff about what touring with the WWF in the 80's 90's was like.

etherman wrote:

BokJock wrote:

sturginho wrote:Wrestling fans will most likely have seen this already, but it's definitely worth a watch

Hitman Hart: wrestling with shadows https://youtu.be/L3wZhA5s3kI

Slight tangent but if you havent listened to it yet Jake the Snake's interview on the Joe Rogan podcast is pretty epic, especially on the stuff about what touring with the WWF in the 80's 90's was like.

Love that sort of stuff, behind the scenes stories from the old school wrestlers. Will check it out.

bookmarked for later, cheers lads

Does anyone have a good one about The English Civil War? I'm reading a novel that takes place during it, but I'm quite unawares of what it was all about (apart from Pious Parliament v King Chuck and his Curly Cavs).