CBC - The Passionate Eye - Taking On The Taliban

******************************************************************************* CBC - The Passionate Eye Taking On The Taliban ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type.................: documentary More Information.....: (none) Part Size............: 15,000,000 bytes Number of Parts......: 49 Archive Format.......: RAR Part Recovery Method.: PAR2 PAR2 Blocks Provided.: 192 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source...............: NTSC CABLE AVI Size.............: 721,397,760 bytes Duration.............: 1:00:55 FPS..................: 29.970 Video Codec..........: XviD 1.2 SMP Codec DCT......: H263 QPel...........: No GMC............: No Video Bitrate........: 2000 (ABR) Video Resolution.....: 640x464 Video Aspect Ratio...: 1.379 Audio Format.........: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Encoder........: LAME 3.92 Bitrate..............: 128kbits/sec (CBR) Hz...................: 48000 Channels.............: Stereo Captured by..........: festering leper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was hoped British forces would leave Afghanistan without firing a shot, instead senior offices have described it as the heaviest fighting the British Army has seen since the Korean War and more than 50 of their men have been killed. Six years after the Taliban regime fell, the south and east of the country is in open conflict and Britain is at the heart of the fighting. Britain has volunteered its troops for one of the most dangerous areas, Helmand, where the countryside is in the hands of the Taliban and where the rural population survive by growing poppies for opium. When the BBC's Panorama first started filming in Afghanistan with The Queen's Company of the Grenadier Guards, it was following 35 men whose duties included being photographed by tourists outside Buckingham Palace. Six months later two are dead and thirteen others are seriously injured. Taking on the Taliban follows The Queens Company into numerous fire fights to get the intimate and personal story of a small band of men facing the biggest challenge of their lives, and in the process, capturing unprecedented footage of the most intense fighting seen by the British Army since the Korean War. And as the casualties mount, the film analyses through these men the cost of the fighting, what is being achieved in Afghanistan, and whether too much is being asked of the men on the frontline. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted by............: festering leper Posted to............: alt.binaries.multimedia alt.binaries.tv alt.binaries.documentaries alt.binaries.multimedia.documentaries Repost Policy........: None, sorry! (Post'n'Delete) --

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Hei_på-deg (2008-04-04)

Excellent documentary.
Really moving and interesting.