Recommend a TV series and/or Documentary

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perkunos

Something a little different for handsome reactionaries; the documentary that got me into behind the neck push presses:

The Soul Is Greater Than The World

This is a documentary about Ricky Bruch, who was a famous Discus thrower and powerlifter from the 1970s and 1980s. It is by far the most intense and inspiring documentary about picking up heavy things I have ever seen. Bruch is a complete madman when training or in competition; this sort of intensity and dedication makes me want to go out and conquer new worlds. It is also touching in displaying his character in helping out friends who were trapped behind the Iron curtain, and his various forms of self-sabotage and self-doubt. He also has a poetic spirit, and the contrast of this with his brutal training in the stark landscape of Sweden is beautiful. Stones, birds, snow, water and mud

The video starts out with a quote from phenomonologist Jan Potocka which translates roughly as:

In addition to being a documentary which inspires men to great feats of strength and force of will, it is a metaphor for the loss of the heroic in European man. Ricky Bruch should have been a great conqueror. Instead, this man who looks like he is carved from elemental stone, he is a humble athlete, who dreams of the discus as some ancient weapon his warrior ancestors. Even in this humble taste of glory, he is defeated by bureacrats; disgusting small minded weasel people. This is the fate of modern European man who attempts to live by the heroic spirit; always and everywhere. He was denied Olympic glory at 38, but threw in smaller competitions where he bested all of the Olympians by many meters. He was denied glory, but knew he was the greatest. Personally I would have liked to see him throw a few discuses at the dimwits who denied him what was rightly his, but this is the type of glory afforded modern European man.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/SaXWvOc7voY

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perkunos

1968 BBC series, "The Caesars."
Basically, this is I, Claudius without the camp and grody roman sex. Now available on toobs:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQxqdjpVmR2T_bYi4HYkuUMI2DnCLNHRo

Acting is extremely good; maybe better than I, Claudius (especially the guy who plays Claudius). Characterization and casting is vastly better. Lots of subtle stuff goes on here that I, Claudius telegraphed for dumb 70s hippies.

Our resident filmmaker Cornelio should watch this just for the character of Tiberius.

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