Documentaries

[Sworntothecans]

Watched an excellent documentary last night, 'Nae Pasaran', found a torrent of it handy enough if it's not streaming anywhere:

In a small Scottish town in 1974, factory workers refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile. 40 years after their defiant stand in protest against Pinochet's Air Force, Scottish pensioners discover the dramatic consequences of their solidarity.

Remember hearing about that one, must lash it on to the watchlist. Great bunch of lads!

[Sworntothecans]

Watching Hip Hop Undercover on Disney at the moment. Pretty decent series about the legit gangsters/shot callers behind the scenes, who'd get the shout outs on the records, on the east & west coast scenes.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

This Michael Sheen debt-buying experiment one airing tomorrow will be interesting to watch:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1ewdgk7no

[Sworntothecans]

This Michael Sheen debt-buying experiment one airing tomorrow will be interesting to watch:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1ewdgk7no

I heard about that. Sheen's a good lad. Hopefully the dodgy box will provide as the beeb seem to have been killing stuff off a lot lately

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Tis Channel 4 airing it, don't know if that helps.

[astfgyl]

Mad how easily those debts can be written off by the lenders and what they're sold for to the collection companies. Must try get a look at this one.

It's also amazing how many people don't know that they don't have a contract with the debt collectors and all they have to do is never engage with them or accept that they owe them anything.

I had it for months with one crowd until they just gave up trying to get me to confirm my name over the phone. Got very entertaining before they simply gave up and had to take the hit for themselves.

Fuck em

[Sworntothecans]

Tis Channel 4 airing it, don't know if that helps.

All 4 it is! Nice wan!

[Sworntothecans]

Some legend put the Damned doc (that's seemed to be locked on Sky for ages)on YouTube. It's deadly.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched No Other Land last night. What can be said at this point, other than to lament the fact that none of the right people will watch it.

[astfgyl]

Watched No Other Land last night. What can be said at this point, other than to lament the fact that none of the right people will watch it.

Heard of that. Heard it was pretty depressing. Who would be the right people though?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Really powerful Israeli-made documentary here about a particular episode of the Nakba in 1948 and the multiform efforts to keep it and the rest of the reality of the Nakba covered up.

https://archive.org/details/tantura-2022_202311

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Solid PBS documentary on funk. Covers a lot of ground.

https://www.pbs.org/video/make-it-funky-xoqjb8/

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Re-watching David Attenborough's Wild Isles series about Britain & Ireland with the wee lad. Absolutely perfect companion to Redwall, which we're reading at the moment, but 'tis also an ever-timely reminder that ecological cooperation is absolutely the only long-term winning game going on this planet in terms of survival and flourishing.

[Eoin McLove]

What's Redwall?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Books I read as a tween:

The series chronicles the adventures of the anthropomorphic animals inhabiting Redwall Abbey and the surrounding countryside of Mossflower Wood, including mice, moles, hares, badgers, and other woodland species. Frequently the peace-loving creatures of Mossflower are called upon to become warriors to defend themselves from marauding bands of "vermin" such as rats, weasels, and foxes.