第1集本期内容介绍：探险团队将深入啤酒、小香肠和保龄球之乡——威斯康星州的密尔沃基。第一站是废弃的贝斯特啤酒厂——贝斯特蓝带啤酒的发源地。他们将探访酿酒车间，揭开贝斯特蓝带啤酒的酿造工艺，并寻找近百年来难得一见的古老酒窖。第2集本期内容介绍：探险团队的四位专家——一个城市历史学家、一个机构工程师和两个世界级的城市攀登高手，将展开穿越时空的冒险之旅。他们将深入"风之城"——伊利诺斯州的芝加哥，发掘那里的历史遗迹。
房地产大亨莱恩·斯汉特经营着纽约最大的地产公司之一，他一面处理最昂贵的房源，一面激励经纪人们追求卓越。
Treasures Of The Indus is 3 x 60’ episodes made by Tern TV, which tell the story of the Indian Sub-Continent through the treasures that have shaped the modern Indian world. From the plains of Pakistan to the foothills of the Himalayas, from Northern India and Rajasthan to the deep South and Tamil Nadu, Dr Sona Datta explores this vast melting pot of diverse civilisations, religions, cultures and glorious landscapes that has given us some of the greatest artistic golden ages on earth. The series will chart the history of the Indus Valley, telling the relatively unknown story that stretches back 4,500 years to the Ancient Indus civilisation who gave us, amongst other things, the decimal system. Sona explores the art of the Mughals, who created the most famous and dazzling empire that India has ever seen, from the Taj Mahal to fabulously intricate miniatures of court life. She questions whether the Mughals were trying to impose their own religion of Islam or indeed whether they were open to the religion and art of the country they were trying to conquer; and she discovers some of the 33,000 sacred temples hewn from rock, sandstone and marble in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Documentary that reveals the secret story behind one of the greatest intellectual feats of World War II, a feat that gave birth to the digital age. In 1943, a 24-year-old maths student and a GPO engineer combined to hack into Hitler's personal super-code machine - not Enigma but an even tougher system, which he called his 'secrets writer'. Their break turned the Battle of Kursk, powered the D-day landings and orchestrated the end of the conflict in Europe. But it was also to be used during the Cold War - which meant both men's achievements were hushed up and never officially recognised.
根据《星期日泰晤士报》报道,伦敦奥运会的开幕式将重现一些历史场景,并以“甲壳虫”乐队的老歌“Hey Jude(嘿,裘德)”结束。 7月27日晚上9点,一口欧洲最大的钟将被敲响,奥运开幕式就此开始。钟上刻着莎士比亚名著《暴风雨》中的句子“不必害怕,岛上已满是声音”。 开幕式的主题援引《暴风雨》,被定为“奇妙岛屿”。体育场将被变成英国乡村,演员们将把真实的牛羊带到绿茵茵的草地上,向观众展现一幅田园牧歌的画面。 此后,人们将还原1948年一批移民从西印度群岛乘“帝国疾风号”来到英国开始新生活的场景,以及女性是如何争取选举权的历史。 另外,开幕式还将重现1936年200多名史称“加罗十字军”的来自英格兰东北部的工人徒步到伦敦议会大楼抗议的历史镜头。1936年正值全球经济大萧条,这些人抗议的是贫穷以及高达70%的失业率。 《星期日泰晤士报》称,开幕式导演、曾执导过《贫民窟的百万富翁》的丹尼·博伊尔的这一做法对于目前正处于经济危机中的全球来讲很有象征意义。开幕式演出的一个高潮是悬挂于观众头顶的五个巨大的圆环在烟火中慢慢叠到一起,组成奥运五环的标志,随后发出光芒。 流行音乐的常青树、“甲壳虫”前主唱保罗·麦卡特尼将用一首“Hey Jude”结束整晚的演出,届时现场6万名观众将和他一起合唱,告诉人们要让世界“变得更好”。 伦敦奥运会开幕式时长为3小时,耗资2700万英镑(约合人民币2.69亿元)。英国女王伊丽莎白二世与100多位国家元首将出席开幕式,10亿名电视观众将观看直播。
这部纪录片网罗了我们这个星球上伟大的自然奇观，这些地方的美景令人赞不绝口，却给生活在当地的人们带来了非凡的挑战。继前作取得巨大成功之后，这部令人敬佩的纪录片带来了更为丰富详细的故事，让我们了解天南海北的人们是如何在地球最恶劣的条件下维持生活，甚至成为人生赢家的。这部自然历史纪录片融入了最为先进的科学知识和拍摄技巧，揭示了人类是如何适应世界上一些极端环境的。我们将会在自然界最美丽、最原始的地方，领略当地人无与伦比的技巧、独创性和勇气。
