百集大型纪录片《中国通史》由央视电影频道节目中心制作出品、中国社 会科学院监制、中国社会科学院历史研究所组织 撰稿并邀请国内多家重点大学、专业机构的研究 人员共同参与创作。 为了让广大观众先行了解其面貌，并听取各 方面意见，不断提高拍摄质量，电影频道从已经 拍摄完成的作品中，选出有关魏晋南北朝到隋唐 时期的7集先行播出，1月21日至27日晚8：50， 观众将分别看到《诸葛亮治蜀》、《魏晋风 度》、《北魏孝文帝改革》、《梁武帝治国》、 《魏晋佛教》、《再造统一》和《炀帝功过》。
A team of elite cavers led by 68-year old Bill Stone attempts a months-long expedition to officially make Cheve Cave in Oaxaca, Mexico the world’s deepest cave. A massive logistical undertaking above ground supports the lead team in the depths as they navigate an underground maze of twisting tunnels and dead ends in search of a passage that leads to the bottom of deepest cave on earth.
In the majestic tropical island of Palawan, three environmental crusaders confront murder, betrayal and political corruption in this thrilling documentary about land defenders battling to save and preserve paradise in the Philippines. The island of Palawan in the Philippines contains one of the oldest, largest and most diverse rainforests in the world. It is also one of the most dangerous places to be a land defender. Inside this majestic tropical island, environmental crusaders confront murder, betrayal and battle to save their home for the next generation. Bobby Chan, a local environmental lawyer, leads a bold group of renegade land protectors who guard the rainforest by peacefully confiscating and dismantling the chainsaws of illegal loggers. The battle also rages on behind closed doors. Mayor Nieves Rosento of El Nido is fighting for her political life as her entire family is slandered by her opposition with support from the land developers and infamous dictator President Rodrigo Duterte. Delikado is a timely environmental thriller on how corrupt corporate and political interests are swallowing small Indigenous communities across the globe by diminishing their resources and limiting their power, one tree at a time.
劳拉·珀特阿斯因导演《第四公民》被大众所知。这部影片将关注到另一个在互联网掀起巨浪的人——朱利安·阿桑奇。在一个小小的建筑中被围困了五年, 即使他面临法律上威胁，阻止他所领导的组织和运动, 朱利安•阿桑奇也没有被吓倒。通过拍摄这部影片，导演劳拉发现自己困在了阿桑奇的动机、矛盾和内心之间。 Filmed over six years, Risk (2016) is a character study that collides with a high stakes election year and its controversial aftermath. Cornered in a tiny building for half a decade, Julian Assange is undeterred even as the legal jeopardy he faces threatens to undermine the organization he leads and fracture the movement he inspired. Capturing this story, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle.
Mysteries of China captures one of the great archaeological events of the modern age, telling the story of Ancient China, the First Emperor, and the literal foundation of the China we know today. Through the lens of this groundbreaking discovery, viewers explore an ancient time when a fierce warrior brought together a warring nation and how an accidental discovery changed everything we know about China's past. The discovery of the Terracotta Warriors and the Tomb of the First Emperor offers a unique time capsule into the past, revealing many things about this great country, which tells a larger story about the growth of China into a true superpower. From modern China to ancient China and back again, Mysteries of China is a visual adventure, using beautiful aerial photography and cutting-edge time lapse techniques to reveal great majesty, tragedy, splendor, and growth in a nation that continues to excel quickly into the future.
这部影片摄于35mm胶片，是一张来自真实世界的邀请函，准备为沉浸于电子设备的现代观众解毒。一位特立独行的科学家，就在史蒂夫·乔布斯推出第一台iPhone的时候，拯救了世界上最后一家宝丽来工厂，重新发现了拍立得的配方。这也是一个有趣的失败者故事，像极了现代版的堂吉诃德。
这部纪录片真实再现了德国电影大师沃纳·赫尔佐格（Werner Herzog）用近五年的时间在秘鲁亚马逊热带丛林中艰难拍摄完成震撼世界的名片《陆上行舟》（Fitzcarraldo）的过程。本片记录了这段电影人寻找梦想的过程，但这绝不是一部现今发行电影DVD时几乎必附的幕后花絮纪录片，他没有对影片吹嘘拍马只是忠实纪录影片拍摄时面对的众多不可思议的困难日子以及一个为了电影近乎疯狂的导演。 《陆上行舟》根据真实事件改编，爱尔兰人Fitzcarraldo酷爱歌剧，他想在热带雨林之中建造一个歌剧院然后请意大利男高音卡鲁索（Caruso）来演唱，为了凑到足够的金钱他买下来一块橡胶田做起橡胶生意，为了往来运输他必须弄一条船到雨林之中，在当地印第安土著帮忙之下，他终于把船从一条运河跨山而过运到了另一条河上。就在他兴奋无比之时，却不知土著有自己的打算，他们把船抛弃在河流之中让他顺流而下以献给河神，Fitzcarraldo的梦想最终破灭。他请了一个三流歌剧团来雨林表演以此完事。Fitzcarraldo的梦想没有实现赫尔措格却被之打动，他认为这种坚持梦想的行为本事就是伟大的成功，将之搬上屏幕成了赫尔佐格的梦想，却不知这是一个折磨了他五年带给他痛苦与快乐的梦想。 在赫尔佐格的坚持下，影片在秘鲁内陆的雨林实地拍摄，拍摄之初便卷入了当地土著部落的权利之争，而在丛林中还有军营、石油公司各种势力，拍摄所需物资全部空运至搭建的营地。影片缓慢的拍摄。五周后，就在影片完成40%的时候，影片主演Jason Robards因病退出剧组，饰演Fitzcarraldo伙伴Wilbur的滚石乐队（Rolling Stone）主唱Mick Jagger则投身新专辑发行和巡演。影片陷入遥遥无期的停机状态。 半年之后，赫尔佐格找来Klaus Kinski饰演Fitzcarraldo，摄制组再次进入雨林。影片拍摄过程中最大的矛盾出现了。在现实中，Fitzcarraldo将船拆散运过山坡后在另一头进行组装。赫尔措格却执意要将比现实中大得多船整个越过山坡，他认为这能将电影的主题形像化，给人视觉冲击。剧组请来的巴西工程师设计了一套复杂的装置供印第安临时演员们进行搬运，但即使是工程师也不相信这个装置可以搬运那个大家伙。赫尔措格已经听不进任何劝阻，执意实景拍摄。工程师因此退出摄制组留下“只有30%成功机会，如果失败还会有人会死”的话。 赫尔措格最终失败，30吨的船只移动了半米左右就退回了远处。此时另一艘用于拍摄的船则搁浅在浅滩之上，影片再次停机。 赫尔佐格面对采访的摄影机开始抱怨诅咒这片雨林，又掩饰不了对这原始之地的爱以及对自己梦想的执着。又过了几个月，影片中最重要的“陆上行舟”镜头终于拍摄成功，影片顺利完成。此片为赫尔佐格赢得了1982年戛纳最佳导演奖，成为他最重要的作品之一。 本片导演Les Blank对这片丛林充满崇敬之情，对其原始状态的消失而悲哀，片中的影像常常游离于摄制组之外，丛林中的蚂蚁、橡胶树、土著制作独特食物的过程、有着可口可乐标志的茅草屋、土著身上的米老鼠T恤、部落之间的争端、双凤求凰的争吵莫不忠实纪录下来。使本片具有独特的纪念价值，片中一句“专家计算，这些土著部落在2008年的时候都消失殆尽。”在当时看来还有遥远的26年，可现在再看，也只有短短的三年时间了。时间让纪录的影像残酷无比。 赫尔佐格在影片中说：“在别人看来我是在做白日梦，但是我一定要做到它，我不想做一个没有梦想的人，这样的生命没有意义。”他用自己的经历和自己的电影告诉人们，拥有梦想的人无论成功与否，都拥有骄傲而又伟大的灵魂。梦想会有负累，因为负累我们才去梦想。
探讨千年之交日本恐怖电影的起源，这些电影以复仇鬼魂通过现代科技显现为主题，背景则是都市的疏离与社会的衰败。
James Benning’s first film called The United States of America was a 1975 trip across the country, capturing its scenery through a car windshield. This second one also crisscrosses the nation, but without a car, carving it up instead into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming. The names of the places are nondescript, but the images attached to them are anything but, immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between. As we move from A to Z, the images coalesce into a portrait of today’s USA, tracing out its fault lines almost in passing: fenced-off facilities, a river bed running dry, factories and refineries, run-down streets and gas stations, a camp under a bridge. The past is there too, seeping up through the songs and speeches that sporadically pierce the background noise or the motifs that evoke a whole career; the clouds, trains and cabins are stand-ins for films, not just states. As always, there’s time for more abstract thoughts too: each image may stand for a state, but representativity is slippery. Which state is more cinematic than the rest?
《空中浩劫》是一个由加拿大Cineflix制作的空难纪录片节目，其英文原版分别在世界各地的国家地理频道及Discovery频道播出，加拿大魁北克省在Canal D以法文播出，中国中文版则由多个电视台获得其版权。 此节目主要介绍1970年代黑匣子发明之后所发生的近代重大航空事故。《空中浩劫》会以模拟演出的方式，分别以乘客、机师等不同人的视角，从一开始旅客登机、起飞，一直到事故发生、后续善后及调查为止，重现事件的整个过程。
Burroughs: The Movie explores the life and times of controversial Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, with an intimacy never before seen and never repeated. The film charts the development of Burroughs' unique literary style and his wildly unconventional life, including his travels from the American Midwest to North Africa and several personal tragedies. Burroughs: The Movie is the first and only feature length documentary to be made with and about Burroughs. The film was directed by the late Howard Brookner. It was begun in 1978 as Brookner's senior thesis at NYU film school and then expanded into a feature which was completed 5 years later in 1983. Sound was recorded by Jim Jarmusch and the film was shot by Tom DiCillo, fellow NYU classmates and both very close friends of Brookner's.
How did a group of rebels create the world’s most famous street? In 1969 New York, this “gang” of mission-driven artists, writers and educators catalyzed a moment of civil awakening, transforming it intoSesame Street, one of the most influential and impactful television programs in history.
如果一个有黑手党背景、专做垃圾生意的大亨买了一支小联盟曲棍球队，并让他 17 岁的儿子负责，会发生什么？咆哮、斗殴、瘀伤、发狂······他们一度走红，却最终被美国联邦调查局重创。2004 年，吉米·加兰特在康涅狄格州丹伯里市创建了 UHL 冰球队“Trashers”，并让他痴迷于《野鸭变凤凰》的年少儿子 A.J. 担任总经理。（如果你觉得托尼和 A.J 听起来很耳熟，那是因为《黑道家族》就是以加兰特和他的家人为原型。）A.J. 想要创造一个将职业摔跤和《野鸭变凤凰》进行完美融合的组合 — “一个我最喜欢的英雄和恶棍的组合。”结果，这支不合群的球队凭借粗暴的赛场表现和破纪录的罚球时间，吸引了大批忠实的球迷（包括一些名人），ESPN 也对其进行了报道。但后来，美国联邦调查局对 Trashers 和吉米·加兰特亮出了红牌。
