History Channel

[thingsgoinon]

Post thoughts or reccomendations on shows you've seen!

[bmain77]

There's no one show that I watch religiously on the network, but I check in daily to see whats on. Just yesterday saw a good special on the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking. Being from Michigan that was pretty interesting. Another good one thats on from time to time is a special on Black Hawk Down. It's full of interviews with the actual participants in the battle. I first saw right after seeing the movie and right before picking up the novel. It was great to put the actual faces with those shown in the movie. Also helped out alot with reading the novel. I really hope this special makes it onto the future BHD SE DVD.

[thingsgoinon]

Good call on that Fitzgerald sinking show...untill I watched that (it was a while back on it's first run) I had no idea they even found the dang thing....thats why I LOVE this and similar channels......

Thats why I started this and the other threads, cuz like you I am not a religious viewer of any one show, but I like to hear shows other ppl caught I may have missed....I'm thinking of posting daily program guides in each thread, what do you think?

[thingsgoinon]

There was also an interesting show on how the Nazi's came to power on Sunday I think it was...I'm gonna try and catch it again, cuz I can't remember specifics, but in a nutshell in 1929 (I think that was the year) The Reichstag (spelling?) the largest, and then most famous of German buildings was burned to the ground.....Hitler and Geobells (again spelling sorry) used this incident to slowly propaganda the citizens, and slowly start racially profiling certain groups of people, and slowly (after he took power when Hindenberg died) started invading other countries he assured the German citizens were the enemy.They used all kind of propaganda, twisted truths, sometimes flat out lied, and held things back from the public...and we all know where it went from there.

After the war, and all the deaths of countless Jews and soldiers, it was found that Hitler and Geobbels were behind the burning of the Reichstag all along.

Sound chillingly familiar to any current events?

[thingsgoinon]

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[Dorian]

I'm able to catch shows on cable TV only once in a blue moon, so I can't watch the History Channel on a regular basis, but I did see this program once that I found fascinating...it was about antibiotics.

The program was about how antibiotics were discovered, how they came to be used (and overused), and their dimishing effectiveness because of overuse. It's scary to think that if the overuse of antibiotics continues, we will have no power to ward off certain diseases because bacteria will be immune to antibiotics. Yet patients continue to demand them for things like the common cold (and doctors continue to prescribe them to please their patients even though they know the drug will be ineffective in the case of the common cold) because of ignorance of the dangers of antibiotic overuse.

I think the History Channel is an excellent learning tool. I do wish I had more access to it.

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[thingsgoinon]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Dorian:


I think the History Channel is an excellent learning tool. I do wish I had more access to it.</font>


That is why I am pushing these topics...and hopefully disscussion...

Was that the antibiotics show about how humans are becoming immune and how they are developing new ones? I think I saw that...very interesting stuff...

Duh I just re-read your post and it is the show I watched....yeah that was good...but at least their trying to develop more...and try to get ppl to focus on healthy living and eating, rather than relying on antibiotics...



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[Batgirl1979]

I think it was the History Channel I saw this special on but it could've been on one of the other channels you posted. It was called "Swimming with the sharks" There was a movie then a documentry after on a ship back during one of the wars and how it was on a secret mission so when the boat sank nobody knew that they were missing until a couple of days later and more than half the crew were eaten by sharks before they found them.
This real event was also mentioned in Jaws when the drunk captian tells the tale about one of his scars. (I have forgot the details since I saw this a couple of years back) It was a very interesting story and also very sad. I recommend seeing it if it is ever on again.

[thingsgoinon]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Batgirl1979:
I think it was the History Channel I saw this special on but it could've been on one of the other channels you posted. It was called "Swimming with the sharks" on again.</font>


Yup saw that one too...it was really sad what happened, but even more sad that they blamed the friggin Captian of the Indianapolis for the sinking!! I can't believe that....and then he commited suicide...man the armed forces like to talk so much about "honor", why do they so often dishonorable?

Rethorical Q http://www.joblo.com/ubb/wink.gif

[thingsgoinon]

Well I watched these two shows last nite:

The Rape of Nanking

Imagine an atrocity so shocking that the official who stood against it most bravely was an avowed Nazi! In this searing investigation, we chronicle the massacre at Nanking, when Japanese troops overcame a spirited Chinese defense in 1937, then proceeded to slaughter 350,000 prisoners of war and civilians over a two-month period.

This had do be the most disgusting thing I've ever seen. More horrible even than the Holocaust...this was sick shit, and they had alot of very disturbing film footage from the slaughter. And the Japanese government still holds the people for these atrocities as hero's!! Unbelieveable....catch it in a rerun history buffs, you will be amazed.

A+


Models

Though they duplicate the real world for fun and fantasy, models are not always toys and they're not always tiny. We explore the magic of these fascinating replicas--from the Rover and Lander models for the Mars Exploration Project to ancient Egyptian ship models found in tombs to English ship models from the Age of Sail. We also look at the rage for hobby modeling, with Lionel trains leading the pack, watch models go to war with scale warplanes in WWII, and invade science fiction films.


This was agreat show depicting how models first started becoming popular, and how thier popularity rose. Covered most of the major modeling companies, but I was REALLY pissed they didn't even mention the Aurora Co., or Polar Lights.Polar Lights is almost single handedly bringing back modeling to the masses...and Aurora, well how they skipped that I have no idea.

It also went into alot of detail about how modeling started in the movies, and it's proggression. Again worth a watch for those with interest.

B+

[thingsgoinon]

Some interesting shows for tonite June 21 : All times Eastern/Pacific, for more time zones and schedule info go here :

http://www.historychannel.com/ontv/listings.cgi?channel=hist&get=today

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4:00PM - 4:30PM Great Blunders in History :
The Wooden Flat-Tops

Throughout the Pacific Theater of World War II, the U.S. Navy continued to fit even its newest carriers with wooden decks, though this had proven to be a fatal weakness. This blunder would cost thousands of unnecessary casualties. TV G

4:30PM - 5:00PM The Wrath of God
Hurricanes: 1935 & 1992

They are the trouble in paradise that can put islands under water, spawn tornadoes, level cities, and kill thousands. Named after the Carib god of storms, Huracan, they wreak havoc each year. We'll fly through the eyes of two deadly storms: the 1935 category-five Florida Keys Hurricane and Hurricane Andrew in 1992. (Half-hour version) TV G

5:00PM - 5:30PM In Search of..
Atlantis

Explores the possibility that 14 huge stone buildings beneath the waters of the Bahamas are part of the lost empire of Atlantis. Leonard Nimoy hosts this classic TV series that explores the world's greatest unsolved mysteries. TV G

5:30PM - 6:00PM History's Crimes and Trials
The Gandhi Assassinations

An examination of the murder of the father of modern India, Mahatma Gandhi, and the assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi. TV PG

6:00PM - 7:00PM Black Sheep Squadron
Ten'll Get You Five

Con artist Pappy Boyington (Robert Conrad) meets his match when a visiting sergeant talks him out of his Scotch supply in exchange for "superior" Japanese oil that fails in a dogfight. TV PG

7:00PM - 8:00PM Paving America

Tells the story of our grand national highway system, from its beginnings in 1912 (it was conceived by auto and headlight tycoons) to its completion in 1984 (when the last stoplight was removed--and buried). TV G

8:00PM - 9:00PM This Week in History
Typhoid Mary/Bugsy Siegel Murder/Morse Code

At New York's North Brother Island, an infamous woman spent almost half her life in abject exile. Was Mary Mallon, a.k.a. Typhoid Mary, a scapegoat for epidemic hysteria or a reckless, deadly threat to public health? In Los Angeles., Detective Les Zoeller interviews people with firsthand knowledge of the 1947 Bugsy Siegel murder mystery. And we see why the Morse Code shouldn't be credited to Samuel Morse, who invented the telegraph. TV G

9:00PM - 10:00PM Greatest Raids
PT Boats in the Pacific
Among the first U.S. Navy vessels to see action in the Pacific in WWII were the motor torpedo boats of PT Boat Squadron 3 in the Philippines during the Japanese invasion. And for the next three years, from Guadalcanal to the coasts of Japan, they ran reconnaissance and screening missions, landed raiding parties, and attacked enemy shore installations and supply barges. See how they lived up to the motto of John Paul Jones: "Give me a fast ship, for I intend to go in harm's way." TV PG

10:00PM - 11:00PM Bunkers

From the earliest bunkers of WWI through the ultra-futuristic ones of tomorrow's wars, we trace the story of defensive fortifications. In the constant struggle to hold off ever more potent forms of attack, bunkers function in a variety of forms. Three mammoth block structures comprise a submarine bunker at Lorient, France, able to house 20 subs. We visit Churchill's Cabinet War Room and Hitler's Berlin bunker, as well as backyard Cold War bunkers and those that protect nuclear weapons themselves. TV G

11:00PM - 12:00AM Ghost Ships

Ships sailing without a crew? Phantom destroyers? Boats that disappear, then reappear? The Flying Dutchman, the Mary Celeste, the Dash, the Teazer, and the more recent Joyita. Crews of these vessels vanished without a clue to their fates. We travel the seven seas seeking answers and hear from witnesses to the bizarre events. TV G

[APzombie]

If i do watch t.v. it is always mostley the history channel.

[bmain77]

Actually one series that I do watch on a somewhat regular basis is In Search Of...

When I was a little kid my Grandma watched the show religiously and I hated and was only somewhat interested in it because Spock was on the show. Now I get a real kick out of the some of the more far out episodes where they are looking for the Loch Ness Monster and so on.

I kinda wish they would come out with an updated version of the show. Maybe they could get Bret Spiner or Michael Dorn to host it http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[thingsgoinon]

There is a really cool show on right now called "The Perils of Whistle Blowing" about people who have warned abut perils in certain industrys ( Space Shuttle, Nuclear Industry, Tobbaco) and how they got railroaded and then their fears came true. Don't know when it's on again, but just wanted to reccomend to you History buffs http://www.joblo.com/ubb/wink.gif