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A celebration of the greatest drug-fueled achievement in sports history.

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Intense footage of Japanese pilots in their final doomed efforts to win World War 2.

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…leads to the palace of homelessness. We’ve all had terrible house guests, but apparently Arthur Rimbaud was the worst:

He took to nude sunbathing just outside the house. He turned his room into a squalid den. He mutilated an heirloom crucifix. He was proud of the lice infesting his long mane and even pretended he was encouraging the vermin to jump on to passers-by.

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Adam Smith’s 1992 miniseries on how the Soviets attempted to engineer the perfect society, instead building a centrally controlled Hell. (more at IMDB)

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Part 6

Also recommended is Adam’s The Power of Nightmares, one of my all-time favorite documentaries.

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