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The Great War channel produces a number of different types of content, the main feature being a weekly recap of the war that corresponds to the events of the same week 100 years prior. The events presented are also summarized quarterly in their own videos.
The Great War is a 26-episode documentary series from 1964 on the First World War. The documentary was a co-production of the Imperial War Museum , the British Broadcasting Corporation , the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Commission .
In contrast to the 1964 BBC production titled The Great War, which focused primarily on the military and political aspects of the war, this 1996 documentary, in keeping with more recent trends in historiography, used a wide variety of types of sources to cover social, cultural, economic and personal perspectives on the war in addition to the ...
Battle in Outer Space was released in Japan on 26 December 1959. [1] It was released in the United States in an English-dubbed version by Columbia Pictures in 1960 where it was a double feature with 12 to the Moon. [1] [2] The North American release was reasonably popular earning around $600,000. [3]
Although the submarine has explosion-proof walls, the explosion spreads through the ventilation shafts, killing everyone at the command post and preventing the sub from performing an emergency blow. 135 seconds later, another explosion rocks the submarine. Then it sinks, killing all but 23 men on board.
Playing a game of hide-and-seek underwater, the Yamato distracts base command while a commando led by Kodai goes to the surface to destroy the reflective gun and meeting blob-like Plutonians along the way. The explosion floods the base and the Gamilas are forced to evacuate.
The episode was adapted in the first Year One Space: 1999 novel Breakaway by E. C. Tubb, published in 1975. Tubb, an experienced science-fiction author, retained the basic storyline and made significant changes in content and dialogue. Some of the material edited from the original two-hour director's cut can be found here.
On 1 January 2007, Adam Air Flight 574 crashes into the Makassar Strait in Indonesia, killing all 102 people on board. The crew inadvertently disengaged the autopilot while trying to fix a problem with the aircraft's inertial reference system , causing it to roll into an uncontrolled dive and break up during flight.