Originally Posted by techweenie (Post 6764117)

restrepo

Originally Posted by Head416 (Post 6764170)

+1

Originally Posted by RWebb (Post 6764030)

Deliverance & Easy Rider are excellent documentaries about the South

Originally Posted by Scott R (Post 6764045)

Thanks for posting this, I read a book about this called "Red Star Rogue" as sort of a follow up to originally learning about this in college. Never knew there was a film out there.

Originally Posted by pavulon (Post 6765017)

I remember an old British TV show called 'Connections'. Was all about how one thing lead to another over time...looked on Youtube and there seems to be a big pile of episodes there.

Originally Posted by RWebb (Post 6764030)

Deliverance & Easy Rider are excellent documentaries about the South

Originally Posted by RWebb (Post 6764030)

Deliverance & Easy Rider are excellent documentaries about the South

Originally Posted by pavulon (Post 6765017)

I remember an old British TV show called 'Connections'. Was all about how one thing lead to another over time...looked on Youtube and there seems to be a big pile of episodes there.

Originally Posted by VINMAN (Post 6765246)

Alone in the Wilderness

About Dick Pronneke, guy built a log cabin by himself up in Alaska and lived in it .

Originally Posted by Rich76_911s (Post 6767398)

I also really like 100 Porsche's and Me.

Originally Posted by William930t (Post 6768154)

The story of three Canadians who have rocked us all:

RUSH: BEYOND THE LIGHTED STAGE

Originally Posted by rusnak (Post 6764062)

Nova (PBS) : "To the Moon" is about the Gemini and Apollo space programs, and the debate at NASA and at Langley Research Center. The scientists working under Wernher Von Braun were debating furiously about the "mode" to get to the moon, and eventually decided on a method, Lunar Orbit Rendevous, which was advocated by an outsider, John C Houbolt. Very interesting show.

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr (Post 6763188)

You have to see this one... Azorian: The Raising of the K-129

SBS: Documentary - Azorian: The Raising of the K-129

It was shown last year on our SBS channel. I'm not even sure were you could get it from.

For over six years, the wreck of the Soviet submarine “K-129” had lain in the dark abyss and shifting silt of the North Pacific. From its loss in March 1968 until its exposure in March 1974, the world was unaware that the Russians had lost a strategic missile submarine with its three one megaton thermo-nuclear warheads, and two nuclear-tipped torpedoes.
How do you raise a 1700-ton section of a sunken submarine to the surface of the ocean while being watched by a paranoid Soviet intelligence apparatus?
AZORIANTHERAISINGOFTHEK129
The Soviet Government was equally unaware that the US had located and photographedthe wreck and was preparing the largest marine salvage operationin history to raise the K-129.

Project AZORIAN, which was eventually known inaccurately to thegeneral public as “Project Jennifer”, was the CIA’s audacious attempt torecover the K-129 wreck using a specially designed salvage vessel, named theHughes Glomar Explorer.

Representing the most modern missile-carrying submarine then inthe Soviet inventory, the K-129 offered the US a cornucopia of unique intelligencetargets, ranging from nuclear weapons to cryptographic systems andother equipment. But retrieving it required $1.8 billion (in today’s dollars)and more than six years to design and build the equipment that could do theimpossible.

To this day, Project AZORIAN is the deepest salvage operation everattempted and was so far beyond the cutting-edge of 1970s technology thatthe Soviets considered it to be impossible.

A brief flurry of press attention in 1975 resulted in a special presidentialgag order being put in place by then President Gerald Ford. This securityprovision has effectively blocked normal declassification systems andFreedom of Information Act requests to this day.

Finally, however, some mission members and senior engineers ofProject AZORIAN have stepped out of the shadows to help tell this dramaticstory in their own words. Utilising extensive, accurate CGI reconstruction ofthe salvage attempt, plus never before seen film of the actual recovery itself,and based upon contemporaneous documents, AZORIAN: The Raisingof K-129 provides the first factual and documented account of this uniqueevent ever made available outside the confines of US Intelligence agencies.