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　　本系列纪录片讲述了三组来自世界各地令人大开眼界的“特殊人物”。一对来自巴基斯坦的“太阳能男孩”——白天生龙活虎，太阳一落山就完全陷入瘫痪，全身动弹不得。一名被“偷走青春”的英国少女——明明只有20岁却长了一副60多岁的容颜。还有来自印尼的世界上最重的男孩——190多公斤的体重，几乎让他寸步难行。这些人都因为各种全球罕见的病症，被生活逼上了绝路。本片将通过对他们的跟踪采访，揭示这些特殊人物的日常生活，以及他们对抗自身命运的不懈斗争。

　　关于一位东北民间萨满巫师的纪录片

　　My film diaries 1970-1979: my marriage, children are born, you see them growing up. Footage of daily life, fragments of happiness and beauty, trips to France, Italy, Spain, Austria. Seasons of the year as they pass through New York. Friends, home life, nature, unending search for moments of beauty and celebration of life friendships, feelings, brief moments of happiness. The film is also my love poem to New York. It’s the ultimate Dogme movie, before the birth of Dogme. —Jonas Mekas

　　开篇通过情景再现独立战争的经典场面，假设了华盛顿死于战争等情况下美国将何去何从。在长久以来的观念中，美国作为世界上唯一的超级大国成为世界人民心驰神往的理想国度，而美国梦则帮助一代又一代的普通民众走向成功，梦想成真。但是外表华丽的美利坚却有着永远无法洗刷的原罪，窃取土地、窃取劳动、窃取资源等等，是许多学者和平民对这个咄咄逼人的帝国最强烈的指控。本片导演Dinesh D’Souza通过采访和史料，试图推翻上述有失偏颇的指控，进而指出真正让美利坚之梦破碎的恰恰是奥巴马、希拉里及其背后的少数利益既得者。孰是孰非，莫衷一是，或许不过又是一场纸牌屋的博弈……
　　Dinesh D’Souza是一名印度裔美国人，他曾导演纪录片《2016：奥巴马的美国》试图影响2012年的大选。

　　从阿根廷到哥伦比亚，这部出色的纪录片记录了数位人物，他们分享了自己与南美最雄伟的山脉之间的联系。

　　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?

　　Julia Reichert, who passed away after a long battle with cancer in 2022, recounts the path she took to becoming an acclaimed filmmaker: her upbringing and education, and her interest in working people and the women's movement.

　　Massive machines require engineering extremes.
　　The massive man-made satellite, commonly known as the International Space Station, hurtling around the Earth at 27,600 km an hour, has been a temporary home for humans for the last 20 years. The biggest land vehicle on earth, a bucket excavator titled Bagger 293, that can move 240,000 cubic meters of dirt each day. Innovation has always meant building bigger, faster, taller, longer and stronger than anything that came before. We’ve seen them in dramatic visual fashion. But how do these actually work? What sets each machine apart. What big ideas drove its evolution and what limitations did this machine overcome? What forces was it built to withstand and where is the breaking point? Using CGI and expert insights, we ‘strip down’ the design of some of the world’s unique colossal machines and reveal mechanical secrets that not only made them work, but also changed the world in a big way!
　　Each episode explores four incredible machines, linked thematically. From sea and space faring designs, to mega airborne, mining and industrial machines, we’ll break down what they can do as well as key inner mechanics and materials that make it all possible. Dynamic archival footage featuring; slow motion, aerials, and time-lapses get us past the ‘caution’ tape and up close and personal with these compound monsters. CGI provides breakouts and blueprints and a look at hidden mechanisms. Adding expertise of structural, mechanical, chemical and forensic engineers to help reveal what’s at stake when these colossal constructions are put work, and how all the pieces come together to make a big impact.
　　EPISODES:
　　S1 E1 Sea Monsters
　　S1 E2 Astronomical Engineering
　　S1 E3 There Be Dragons
　　S1 E4 Sub-Zero Supermachines
　　S1 E5 Earth Biters
　　S1 E6 Mammoth Manufacturing
　　

　　What makes a city great? The location? The architecture? The ambience? In this 6 x 50 min series, we circle the globe on a quest to discover the beating heart - and seething underbelly - of the world's most extraordinary cities. Join us as we venture through the grandest old capitals and most modern metropolises on the planet. It's Venice and New York, Hollywood and Bollywood, Cairo, Jaipur, Jerusalem, Rio and more.

　　冰島西南海岸雷恰角半島的格林達維克，是個以漁業為生的港口小鎮，人煙稀少、冰天雪地。鎮上有間樸實但獨一無二的「碼頭咖啡」，每天清早，店主人烹調著招牌龍蝦湯，以油滑香熱、噴鮮濃郁的熱湯和熱咖啡，迎接每一個在港邊海風呼嘯的日子。退休的老漁夫，固定在此與老友喝咖啡、聊是非；不時舉辦的音樂演奏會、追思會，傳唱著小鎮故事並凝聚社群記憶。牆上掛的航海照片與「捕魚英雄榜」，記錄了這座小鎮與人們昔日的輝煌。彷彿佇立在世界盡頭的咖啡館，為這當地人自述「除了捕魚，什麼都沒有」的地方，注入了不可或缺的人情與活力。
　　本片真實呈現一間在碼頭邊屹立不搖的暖心咖啡館，近半世紀迎接大小漁船來來去去，見證小鎮漁業盛衰、觀光熱潮興起，以及周遭地貌變化。在天寒地凍之中，更見一個空間經年累月形塑起的社群連結與情感羈絆，物換星移，依然暖心且暖胃。

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