Lighthouses - Guardians of the Night

Lighthouses - Guardians of the Night | Full Documentary

Рет қаралды 59,629

2 жыл бұрын

Subscribe to Janson for more great #free #documentaries pixelfy.me/JansonSubscribe
A spectacular documentary on the history of lighthouses, filmed on location in France, Great Britain, Canada and the United States. The golden age of the lighthouse is over.
Most lighthouses have been already automated or are scheduled to be automated sometime over the next few years. The golden age of the lighthouse dates from the 19th century. The expansion of trade, the birth of colonial empires, and the transportation of millions of immigrants all called for a better system of identifying coastlines.
The lighthouses, solitary and beautiful, will survive, but lighthouse keepers are another matter. Victims of the electronic age, they are no longer needed when the lighthouse can so easily be maintained by automation in the modern era of technology.
The documentary was filmed at the lighthouses of Ar-Men, Cordouan, Kereon, and Le Creach in France; Bonavista, Cape Race, Sable Island, and Pointe Amour in Canada; Bell Rock and Longstone in Great Britain; and, in the United States, Boston, Portland, Maine, and the Statue of Liberty, in New York City.
IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt2249658/
More ways to stream:
Amazon: pixelfy.me/GuardiansOfTheNight...
#movie #full #history #lighthouses

Пікірлер: 52

@pyro-millie5533 Жыл бұрын

Lighthouses have always been a huge fascination of mine. Such marvels of engineering and optics from their creators, and such commitment to courage and unfaltering selflessness from the keepers and their families. This was a beautiful documentary.

@samanthab1923 11 ай бұрын

They are. Once visited a friends house whose bathroom was lighthouse themed. Loved it ❤

@starzkream 9 ай бұрын

I agree. I also share a fascination with lighthouses. If you have ever been out at sea late at night, a lighthouse can make the feeling of loneliness disappear. A beacon of humanity, saying "You are not alone out here."

@nadiashami 6 ай бұрын

@@starzkream🤍

@joerapoza5991 10 ай бұрын

I have had the privilege of being in the USCG, a Keeper at Boston Light and the Nantucket Lightship WLV 612. I never thought of it as privilege until much later on in life.

@Pumpkinshire 2 ай бұрын

I’m writing a fantasy novel set in Boston light. Planning a trip out there this fall. I’d love to interview you for a podcast sometime?

@josephrapoza6453 Ай бұрын

@@Pumpkinshire Sure send me an email. Thank you, Joe

@punchjjugginn Жыл бұрын

I remember watching this on a VHS tape as a child. It’s so amazing to see it on KZfaq now ❤️ brings back so many memories

@ch64621 Жыл бұрын

Much respect to the architects who designed these magnificant lighthouses. Building them must have been a huge challeneg as well for the builders. It's sad to see many lighthouses seen as obsulete by many people who embrace technology.

@fredflintstoner596 2 жыл бұрын

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea !" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

@BROTHER-52 2 жыл бұрын

Great..never seen before documentary.....(can u get 7 wonders of industrial world..bell rock lighthouse documentary...) Another awesome documentary...

@petercooper2387 Жыл бұрын

Interesting video. Winstanley's christian name was Henry. The wrecks pictured between 17.42 and 17.49 are actually Cornish: 'Glenbervie', Lowland Point, 1901 and 'Mildred', Gurnards Head 1912. All British lighthouses are now automated, the Longstone in 1990 and Bell Rock in 1998.

@sveneklund6775 Жыл бұрын

Lighthouse's always amazed me. I always wanted to be a keeper. There's something so mystical and mesmerizing about them ...

@adimeter 3 ай бұрын

Love all the history. The children found the lighthouse a lark, I think.

@ZAV1944 Жыл бұрын

The soundtrack for this documentary is very good

@judithcampbell1705 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. The lighthouse was beautiful inside. 😍 thank you

@douglasangus9609 5 ай бұрын

A Great Documentary for those interested in Lighthouses is “The Lighthouse Stevenson’s” along with Bella Bathurst’s Book, it tells the History of the Lighthouses of Scotland.

@douglasangus9609 5 ай бұрын

The “Bell Rock”, “Skerryvore” & “Muckle Flugga” are Just 3 Of the Awesome Engineering of the Stevenson’s & With the Ferrell Lights things Improved with time with the Stevenson’s Dynasty.

@nadiashami 6 ай бұрын

I have always liked light houses. To me it’s a symbol of hope.

@blahmooblah789 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this upload!!!!

@lec9077 7 ай бұрын

This music tho ❤

@racek1602 5 ай бұрын

THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR, VERY INTEREST DOKUMENT. GREETING FROM CZECH REPUBLIC 🇨🇿

@Aeoline 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating film.

@jojo6028 2 жыл бұрын

This was nice!!! Thank you!!

@cliffwoodbury5319 Жыл бұрын

some very unique designed lighthouses

@dinaburgess864 5 ай бұрын

I have always wanted to live in a lighthouse.Just on land!

@doloresmitchell8083 8 күн бұрын

Love to collect different light houses

@JuliaKhan-ps3fp 6 ай бұрын

So beautiful and endearing❤

@deanbarr5740 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting

@semper_fi1 2 жыл бұрын

Very Awesome . I Love it. Semper Fi

@beachrockmoxam2729 2 жыл бұрын

I love lighthouses

@frefri4628 2 жыл бұрын

Bad luck to like lighthouses

@erichetherington602 2 жыл бұрын

@@frefri4628 you don't know what you are talking about.

@ricardorijo9392 2 жыл бұрын

I understand you,my dream is to live in one...

@mikewilliams235 2 жыл бұрын

Anybody here after reading the book Lamplighters?

@bluebella1313 Жыл бұрын

I'm currently reading it now!!

@philipmcdonagh1094 2 жыл бұрын

I thought lighthouses as we know them today started in Ireland by the monks lighting fires on cliff tops. The oldest one in Europe is supposed to be in Ireland according to a recent R.T.E documentary.

@MRgunjunrun 2 жыл бұрын

I guess they are talking about the building as the concept we know today. As opposed to simply signalling boats through light

@OhLookItsJonBoy Жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure the opening ruins are not the lighthouse of Alexandria. That’s just enough to be too deep to walk in and is certainly too murky. The footage looks to be of Cleopatra’s pool across the water from Alexandria, Egypt in Turkey.

@Pumpkinshire 2 ай бұрын

Maybe we should un automate these lighthouses? That would be a great documentary series actually you got three random people off the Internet put them in an old historic lighthouse that has been un automated with a bunch of freeze dried food maybe Mountainhouse would sponsor you lock the door there’s no Internet just a camera guy and if anybody makes it a full year commission they get like $100,000!

@adimeter 3 ай бұрын

How do you reinforce a lighthouse?

@joeanderson9852 9 ай бұрын

👍❤️

@ElkWatersRun 2 ай бұрын

It’s so sad that the powers that be have decided to turn the lighthouse’s automatic. They should be sacred and held to the ways they were meant to be. These buildings shouldn’t be empty & rotting away. They’re a treasure.

@starzkream 9 ай бұрын

Does anybody know when this was created? I checked IMDB, and the release date is 2007. It may have been released in 2007, but judging by the quality of film, the dates of the models of cars shown, the fact that there are still lighthouse keepers, etc. makes me think this was filmed no earlier than the 1980s.

@chessmckenzie8319 6 ай бұрын

1987

@albertkundrat1734 Жыл бұрын

the lighthouse of my life voyage on earth

@Bruce_Kiskaddon 6 ай бұрын

THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER We watched through the night, our beacon bright For ships in peril upon the sea Like all the watchmen of old, the story is told Of my lighthouse and me For hundreds of years we calmed their fears With a single ray of light Sailors new and old and brave and bold Found solace in the night Now the old way is gone and we march along The last keeper has retired Electronic gear is the new thing, I hear To keep your ship from the mire The light will stay on from dusk to dawn And the beacon will be large But sailors beware, the lighthouse is bare The keeper has been discharged

@williamjones6053 9 ай бұрын

That would be a job i eould like to do for a while

@queenie.lawyergirl.pittymom 3 ай бұрын

These structures were there was before any English men. They always claim to have built things that they actually discovered. They try to recreate them and look what happens.