WW2 Heroes of Telemark

The story of the Norwegian heavy water saboteurs is a legendary story. The Hydro facilities at Rjukan for production of heavy water had been sabotaged and bombed by the Norwegian resistance and by the allies to prevent Nazi-Germany from developing a nuclear bomb. One day in early 1944 the last 29 barrels of heavy water from the plant were on board the ferry HYDRO on Lake Tinnsjø on its way to Germany when Norwegian saboteurs went into action and sank the ferry.



The dramatic actions in Telemark have been the subject of a Hollywood movie with Kirk Douglas called "Heroes of Telemark". In recent years a new dramatization of the story has also been shown on National Geographic Channel and the documentary of Ray Mears: "Real Heroes of Telemark" from 2003.

Ray Mears' Real Heroes of Telemark

Director: Martin Pailthorpe
Writer: Martin Pailthorpe (writer)
Release Date: 2003 (UK)
Language: English
Filming Locations: Norway
Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Cast:
Knut Haugland
Ray Mears
Jens A. Poulsson
Joachim Rønneberg




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This series was conceived as a way of setting the record straight after the content of the 1965 film "The Heroes of Telemark" had failed to give the public a true picture of what had actually happened in the British-sponsored, Norwegian-executed raids to destroy or disrupt the German effort to produce heavy water in occupied Norway for the Nazi atomic-weapons programme. It was intended that this series ought to dispel the war-comic sensationalism surrounding the raids and give to the viewing public the real story, which is far more harrowing than the partly-fictionalised events depicted in the 1965 film.



As such, Ray Mears' BBC series on the raids is excellent. It vividly and accurately recounts the exploits of the Norwegian resistance members that sabotaged the heavy-water plant at Norsk Hydro's Vemork hydro-electricity station in Telemark, a southern Norwegian county, in German-occupied Norway. Mears with a composite team of Royal Marine arctic-warfare specialists and Norwegian soldiers from the Hærens Jeger Kommando (HJK: Norwegian special forces) re-enact elements of the raids that were carried out by the British-sponsored Norwegian sabotage teams from late 1942 onwards. The series goes on to explain the actual order of events of the raids, and the lengths of time involved, and the incredibly difficult conditions that the members of the sabotage teams had had to endure and overcome.

Steal This Film 2 Pirate Moviemakers

The people behind Steal This Film (Pirate Bay) have made an amazing, funny, enraging and inspiring documentary series about copyright and the Internet have just released part II of the series.



Part II is an even better movie than part one and it covers the technological and enforcement end of the copyright wars, and on the way that using the internet makes you a copier, and how copying puts you in legal jeopardy. Starting with Mark Getty's (Chairman of Getty Images) infamous statement that "Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century," the filmmakers note that oil always leads to oil-wars, and that these are vicious, ill-conceived and never end well. This leads them to explore the war on copying, which ultimately becomes a war on the Internet and those of us who use it.

This installment includes punchy interviews with a lot of the US's leading copyfighters like Seth Schoen and Fred von Lohmann, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Eben Moglen, Aaron Swartz, Yochai Benkler, Rick Prelinger, as well as folks in the UK, Sweden and Bangalore. There's also some interesting material here from new artists who embrace copying, but I'm guessing that that's going to be the main theme of a future installment.

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RAF and Luftwaffe WW II - The Greatest Day

Battle of Britain is the name given to the strategic effort by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF) derived from an 18 June 1940 speech in the House of Commons by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, "The Battle of France is over. I expect the Battle of Britain is about to begin....




"The Greatest Day" is a documentary showing us the real heroes that took part in the greatest air-battle so far at that point in history. This was a very decisive moment in history as this fight would determine whether Germany would have to fight a two-front war in Europe or not. If they had succeeded in winning the air superiority over Britain, Hitler would have launched an invasion of England and if they had won control of Britain the whole of Europe would have been the subject of either Nazism or Communism in the decades to come.

Lenght: 48 min

Source: Discovery Channel

Hosted: Stage6

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Dangerous Knowledge

In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.



The film begins with Georg Cantor, the great mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of the 20th-century mathematics. He believed he was God's messenger and was eventually driven insane trying to prove his theories of infinity.

Ludwig Boltzmann's struggle to prove the existence of atoms and probability eventually drove him to suicide. Kurt Gödel, the introverted confidant of Einstein, proved that there would always be problems which were outside human logic. His life ended in a sanatorium where he starved himself to death.

Finally, Alan Turing, the great Bletchley Park code breaker, father of computer science and homosexual, died trying to prove that some things are fundamentally unprovable.

The film also talks to the latest in the line of thinkers who have continued to pursue the question of whether there are things that mathematics and the human mind cannot know. They include Greg Chaitin, mathematician at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, and Roger Penrose.

Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of reality that mathematical thinkers are still trying to answer today.

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The Corporation

"The Corporation", Canada's most successful documentary is based on Joel Bakan's book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. The film has won 26 international awards and 10 Audience Choice Awards including the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Part film and part movement, "The Corporation" provides insightful and compelling analysis, the film puts the American corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?"



At some point in this masterful documentary, a reformed bigwig talks of an epiphany when he first acknowledged the foundations of our frighteningly corporate world. The content is wholesome, invaluable information which, through neutral debate, turns The Corporation, this nadir of co-sufficiency, inside out. Michael Moore was a decoy and this is the front line. He makes it into the final cut like a cracker joke at Christmas. Noam Chomsky, like a cross between Woody Allen and 9/11, confirms the worst and reinforces the muted urgency of this call to arms. If the information this film contains is spread with the gusto its importance deserves, then roll on mass protest on an unprecedented scale. The Bolivian Water War is our benchmark as a race. Boat drinks.

Runtime: 145 min
Country: Canada
Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound Mix:Dolby SR
Release Date: 4 June 2004 (USA)
Directors: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott (co-director)

The Power of Nightmares

The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. The series consists of three one-hour films, consisting mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis's narration, which were first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and have been subsequently aired in multiple countries and shown in several film festivals, including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

The films compare the rise of the American Neo-Conservative movement and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and suggesting a strong connection between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is in fact a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries — and particularly American Neo-Conservatives — in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.

The Power of Nightmares has been praised by film critics in both Britain and the United States. Its message and content have also been the subject of various critiques and criticisms from conservatives and progressives.

Runtime: 180 min (3 parts)
Country: UK
Language: English
Color: Color
Release Date: 20 October 2004
Director: Adam Curtis

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Steal this Film

Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property. Part One, produced in Sweden and released in 2006, takes account of the prominent players in the Swedish piracy culture: The Pirate Bay, Piratbyrån, and the Pirate Party.

Piratbyrån ("The Bureau of Piracy") is a Swedish organization (or think tank) established to support the individuals fighting against current ideas about intellectual properties by sharing information and culture freely. Piratbyrån itself is not involved in illegal activities, but rather wishes to give another point of view about spreading information than the current lobby groups do.



The organization provides guides, news and a forum focused on file-sharing, intellectual properties, piracy and digital culture, and is arranging events such as lectures, media appearances and a yearly may day demonstration. In 2005 Piratbyrån released an anthology entitled Copy Me containing selected texts previously available from its website.

The name is a play on Antipiratbyrån ("The Anti-piracy Bureau"), a non governmental but content industry-based Swedish anti-piracy organization. Members of Piratbyrån have participated in debates on Swedish Radio and Swedish Television and later also been giving several lectures in other European countries, like at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.

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