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    Posted: 25-Aug-2012 at 20:51
Yepp. Well any stupid ones do lol.
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  Quote Mountain Man Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-Aug-2012 at 20:49
Originally posted by Delenda est Roma

Lol XD. But yeah that show is a disgrace.


What bother me about it the most is that the younger generation believes that what they see and hear on those shows is real history.  Ouch
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  Quote Delenda est Roma Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-Aug-2012 at 19:21
Lol XD. But yeah that show is a disgrace.
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  Quote Mountain Man Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-Aug-2012 at 19:01
Originally posted by Delenda est Roma

I don't believe in their wacky theories but I believe in the general idea.


Agreed. Some of these people think that everything ever accomplished in human was done by aliens.  Of course, after visiting WalMart yesterday....Big smile
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  Quote Delenda est Roma Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-Aug-2012 at 17:03
I don't believe in their wacky theories but I believe in the general idea.
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  Quote Mountain Man Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-Aug-2012 at 16:56
Originally posted by Delenda est Roma

Lol it has ancient aliens on so I haven't ben watching.


Nothing wrong with ancient aliens, as long as you don't get carried away.  Haven't you read von Daniken?

Funny thing about UFO's and all the counter-culture: after Project Bluebook was disbanded, the Air Force stated that they had accounted for something like 85% of the reports of UFO's, but what they still could not explain were the remaining 15%, much of that reported by professionals such as radar operators and pilots, including military pilots.

One of the original group of astronauts reported a UFO sighting back to ground control.  Hard to imagine an astronaut being hysterical and seeing things, much less putting his rep on the line by voicing it officially.

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Do I believe in flying saucers and little gray men?  Nope.  Do I believe in the possibility?  Absolutely.
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  Quote Delenda est Roma Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-Aug-2012 at 08:11
Lol it has ancient aliens on so I haven't ben watching.
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  Quote Mountain Man Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-Aug-2012 at 00:06
Originally posted by Delenda est Roma

Generally you should check over anything with actual sources.


I couldn't agree more, but how often do you have time to double check a TV channel.  I'm happy to just catch the big mistakes.  Smile
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  Quote Delenda est Roma Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-Aug-2012 at 20:17
Generally you should check over anything with actual sources.
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  Quote Mountain Man Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-Aug-2012 at 19:24
I like Time Team, and the other archaeology type of programming where they make some attempt to find out what might have really happened.

I also like the series starring Peter Weller as the narrator talking about ancient civilizations - Engineering An Empire.  I never knew that Weller was himself a Renaissance scholar who studied in Florence.

I also enjoy the Underground series that goes beneath the cities of today, although the moderator sounds like he's hosting a kid's show with his endless repetitions of what everyone else says.

The military documentaries about the development of weapons, aircraft and so forth are also often interesting and informative, but don't get me started on those idiotic "Top Ten" programs.  Ouch


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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16-Aug-2012 at 19:18
Discovery History is good as most of its shows are history-related (though i wish they broadcast more recent reruns of Time Team). They had an interesting documentary with colorised footage of WWI and a lot of ancient archaeology-related stuff
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  Quote Mountain Man Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16-Aug-2012 at 18:36
Originally posted by Malik

Ive heard people mentioning that alot of the stuff on HC is unreliable and inaccurate.How many of you feel the same way?DO any of you watch the HC?


I watch it, and it's companion H2 and The Military Channel.  Generally speaking, their historical accuracy is awful.  The events referred to seem to be fairly accurate, as is a good deal of the narrated information,  but the visual material presented to support it to the audience is very often wrong, erroneous, contradictory or all of the above.  Same for many of their "eyewitnesses" or "survivors", most famously the old geezer who had allegedly served in the infantry, the artillery and the Royal Air Corps during WWI.  Ermm

I watch it because I like History...and because it's the only game in town.  Ouch
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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-Apr-2012 at 19:15
I just wish the History Channel showed more history-related programs. I'm sick of boring dreck about modern-day lumberjacks and truckers and want to see more archaeological shows like Mud Men and history documentaries not centred around the Nazis. Military History has some good programs though
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  Quote Centrix Vigilis Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-Apr-2012 at 18:52
Ever kind you are Tj...elementary? I grant you your opinion but it ain't even that when distortion and revisionism, which their corporate owners and sponsors and production department flaunts regularly, as their ideologies. Better bet..... PBS. And then only marginally.
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  Quote tjadams Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-Apr-2012 at 17:51
I have the History Channel and I have the H2 channel.

The History channel has what I call 'elementary history' programming. 
Every once in awhile it will pop out a decent program, but there are way
more channels I have to watch something to stimulate my mind now.
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  Quote red clay Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22-Apr-2012 at 09:53
I don't know about anywhere else, but in this area we now have H2, or History Channel 2.  H2 is the Alien Channel, the regular History Channel is now the Doomsday channel.  They moved all of the Hitler stuff to the Military Channel.  If you look a little you'll find that the History channels and the Discovery channels, along with the Military channel, are all owned by the same outfit.
 
About 3 times a year a list of documentaries and other type history shows that have become public domain comes out.  These are programs whose copyrights have run out and no one renewed them. They can be obtained and used without royalties, by anyone.  If you check that list, you'll see where the History channel gets most of it's programming.  BTW there are a lot of movies on that list as well.
 
 
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  Quote Don Quixote Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21-Apr-2012 at 15:30
I haven't seen a history show on HC for long, long time - all I see when I turn it on is reality-shows=royal-waste-on-time.
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  Quote Centrix Vigilis Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21-Apr-2012 at 10:34
THC is poorly written, poorly researched and a revisonist haven. It's directors and producers are liberal, leftists socialists who overtly promote that political ideaology.
 
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  Quote Toltec Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21-Apr-2012 at 06:55
On the scale of 1 to minus 10.......... -10
Stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out?

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Main role of History today is:Divide et impera!It had divided people easy could be ruled.Big smileIt is my opinion.
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