Comments on: The mother-load of BBC documentaries.

The mother-load of BBC documentaries.

empath — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:16:07 -0800

Have a lazy sunday ahead of you? Feed your head with a few hundred downloadable and streamable BBC Documentaries, uploaded by a single usenet user. I've only watched the majestic and sometimes depressing The Planets and can't wait to go watch more.

By: jamesonandwater

jamesonandwater — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:06:14 -0800

Whoa ... okay, thanks! Now I'll have a response when my dad says "there was this documentary a while back on the BBC ...."

By: scblackman

scblackman — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:08:37 -0800

This is tremendous. I've been looking for Alistair Cooke's video for ages. Thanks for the terrific link!

By: Deconstruct Now!

Deconstruct Now! — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:23:41 -0800

This would be brilliant but I can't stream Guba movies properly. I've found MVGroup.org (more info) as the best way to get BBC documentaries..

By: amyms

amyms — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:23:43 -0800

This is wonderful, thank you! I hear great things about BBC documentaries all the time and I always feel deprived by not having a chance to watch them. Now I can remedy that.

By: Deconstruct Now!

Deconstruct Now! — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:27:53 -0800

oh here's the correct 'more info' link..

By: homodigitalis

homodigitalis — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:28:15 -0800

Behold - the wonders of the intranets: Kenneth Clark's Civilisation [BT] James Burke's Connections I-III [BT] Light Fantastic [BT] James Burke's The Day the Universe Changed [BT] Seven Wonders of the Industrial World [BT] Or simply BUY the stuff: BBC Shop America BBC Shop UK

By: champthom

champthom — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:24:28 -0800

Great post, though I'm rather disappointed I still can't find these two. But still a great post.

By: empath

empath — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:05:57 -0800

The streaming sucks for me, too, but thankfully there is a download link on the top left corner of each of them that will download them in ipod or avi format.

By: etoile

etoile — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:12:53 -0800

FWIW, that's "motherlode." Sorry for the nitpicking.

By: rainy

rainy — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:41:07 -0800

Awesome-plus-plus. I can cancel netflix for the next 2 months now. By the way, with streaming, you can just hit the pause and let it all download and then play it without waiting.

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:22:57 -0800

Why can't BBC America be more like that, and less like this?

By: vbfg

vbfg — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:45:25 -0800

Because yer actual BBC is more like "this" and less like that.

By: empath

empath — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:09:22 -0800

Yeah, keep in mind, these were made over a period of about 40 years or so.

By: surfdad

surfdad — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:12:30 -0800

Come live in the UK. We pay out every year but go to BBC 1 or 2 and you get none of this classic TV. Just rating chasing garbage. Tonight we have 'A Concert for Diana' - sob.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:44:29 -0800

thank you etoile. i was going to point it out too. nit-picking, but constructively so.

By: waxbanks

waxbanks — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:39:18 -0800

Best of the Internet indeed!

By: Artw

Artw — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:01:24 -0800

Absoilutely none of this makes over onto BBC America, BTW. We get Footballers Wives and endless home makeover shows instead.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:06:37 -0800

And so a friend has made a trip out here, and we're catching up and talking about the future. And she talks about seeking homeopathic help for her slipped disc. But it's one of those things I've got nothing to gain by going to war about. I grit my teeth and pray that her kids grow up to be sensible. Sigh.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:09:00 -0800

Whoa. I'm not sure why I thought this thread was the right one...

By: sisquoc15

sisquoc15 — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:44:17 -0800

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By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:53:48 -0800

wow. Goldmine.

By: saguaro

saguaro — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:18:21 -0800

Week's all full, thanks to this link.