The gripping story of how one Russian internet millionaire is turning to cutting-edge science to try to unlock the secret of living forever. Dmitry Itskov recently brought together some of the world's leading neuroscientists, robot builders and consciousness researchers to try to devise a system that would allow him to escape his biological destiny. Entering Dmitry's seemingly ...
Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists - the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider's web. It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please. This technology is already being used to m...
The vitamin industry is worth more than £400million a year in the UK alone, but what are these pills actually doing for people's health? Dr Giles Yeo aims to find out, exploring if vitamin and mineral supplements are what they appear to be and putting people's diets to the test to find out if they really need these supplements. Those he meets include a scientist in Copenhagen, ...
Volcanoes have long helped shape the Earth. But what is less well known is that there are volcanoes on other planets and moons that are even more extraordinary than those on our own home planet. Horizon follows an international team of volcanologists in Iceland as they draw fascinating parallels between the volcanoes on Earth and those elsewhere in the solar system. Through the...
ADHD指注意缺陷多动障碍,又称多动症。英国著名喜剧演员Rory Bremner受到多动症的困扰,他采访医疗机构,尝试新药,了解ADHD背后的科学
《强岛》(Strong Island) 导演:扬斯·福特(Yance Ford) 入围2017年圣丹斯电影节纪录片单元
伯特斯特恩輝煌的生涯始於Look雜誌的收發室,在那裏他和同公司的攝影師變成了好友,那位攝影師就是史丹利庫柏力克。遇上了廣告業的黃金年代,再加上庫柏力克的幫助,伯特斯特恩在25歲就成了知名的廣告攝影師,受到好萊塢、麥迪遜大道和國際時尚品牌競相邀約的對象,本片揭開這位廣告紅人的崛起與衰落。
Meet the Penguins In this one-off special, bird expert and enthusiast Adrian Walls fulfils a lifelong dream to see an endangered species of penguin in the wilds of Peru. Adrian, head of birds at ZSL London Zoo, has looked after penguins throughout his twenty-five years as a zookeeper, but he’s never seen them in their natural environment on the breath-taking Pacific coast of Pe...
21世纪前10年出现了2,000起重大飞机失事事件,在其中的28起事件中,只有一位乘客幸存。本节目列举了其中最具戏剧性的十次事故,穿插了令人心跳加速的视频档案和有力的个人证词。对救援队和医护人员的现场采访以及当事人的亲口讲述可以让观众真切体验到每个生存故事的生动细节。
The rich and powerful have hidden billions of dollars in tax havens. They thought their financial secrets were safe, but now a huge leak of documents has revealed a world of secrecy, lies and crimes. Reporter Richard Bilton exposes tax dodgers, criminals and world leaders who have been hiding their money and their secrets offshore.
Thomas Cromwell has gone down in history as one of the most corrupt and manipulative ruffians ever to hold power in England. A chief minister who used his position to smash the Roman Catholic church in England and loot the monasteries for his own gain. A man who used torture to bring about the execution of the woman who had once been his friend and supporter - Anne Boleyn. Diar...
吃昆虫能拯救世界吗?吃油炸蝗虫、蚁卵沙拉或者烤狼蛛你会感觉怎么样?在这部纪录片中,你将看到主持人兼美食家的Stefan Gates把自己沉浸在无限制的吃昆虫世界里。他试图克服自己对昆虫挥之不去的厌恶感,探索它们能否真的拯救世界。地球上每个人拥有40吨昆虫,或许昆虫能够真正解决全球粮食危机——每天都有数十亿的人在挨饿。而肉类的巨大需求要消耗全球食物链中大量的粮食。Stefan的任务,在泰国和柬埔寨认识那些以捕获、吃和卖食用昆虫为生的人。从昆虫养殖场的可怕规模,到夜里出去围捕的蚂蚱,再到逮捕咬人凶狠的蚂蚁,这些他都还没准备好。不只是吃昆虫,Stefan将抓捕世界上最恐惧的蜘蛛——狼蛛。如果这是每个人的解决方案,包括英国,Stefan希望可以开始食用昆虫。
这部纪录片聚焦在新斯科细亚少数族群,记述他们为了工业废弃物的致命危害向政府官员艰困抗战的故事。
这是你以前从未见过的越南,越南人口超过九千万,有着令人叹为观止的景观,历史悠久的寺庙,并拥有这世界上发展最快的城市。我们在首都河内开始我们的旅程,接下来去哈龙湾和附近的宁滨,然后我们去港口城市岘港参观惠安和顺化,最后我们参观胡志明市,原名西贡。在这段难忘的旅程中,我们穿过国家北部的山脉,来到热带南部体验令人惊叹的地理奇观;并寻找古代王国的遗迹。欣赏它令人叹为观止的风景,包括世界上最美丽的海滩。并让我们凭借其令人惊叹的现代建筑壮举,见证其最先进的新的大城市的诞生。欢迎跟随着我们一起,从高空看越南。
Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and unconventional love story, filmed over two decades.
埃塞俄比亚狼生活在海拔三千米以上的非洲屋脊上,是非洲特有的一种濒危犬类。本片讲述孤狼Megeti的故事,它和狼群走失,急于找到新家。
The film follows Pink on her Beautiful Trauma World Tour, as she balances being a performer with her role as a mother, wife, and boss.
Follows professional stuntman Eddie Braun as he prepares and attempts the most dangerous stunt in cinematic history.
A documentary on the 1970s punk trio Death, and their new-found popularity decades after they disbanded.
阿富汗战争爆发,大批美国年轻人被派往有如炼狱一般的战场。他们为了所谓的理想和正义捐弃生命,同时屠杀生命。美军173空降旅某野战排进驻库伦加尔山谷,这里据说隐藏着众多塔利班武装分子,也注定成为战火最为激烈的地带。在一次交战中,名为约翰?雷斯特雷波的士兵牺牲,亲密的战友们难以忘怀,最终将一个攻下的据点以雷斯特雷波的名字命名。他们以正义之名战斗,却无法得到当地民众的支持。接下来的一年里,士兵们的友情愈加深厚,而战争和死亡的阴影则时刻伴随左右…… 本片荣获2010年圣丹斯电影节评委会纪录片大奖。
这部令人毛骨悚然的调查系列纪录片探索了可怕的遭遇、离奇的失踪和灵异事件等令人不解的现象。
20 世纪 80 年代初,霹雳可卡因泛滥成灾,像海啸一样席卷了美国的市中心贫民区,所到之处满目疮痍。几十年之后,人们仍然能够深切地感受到这场灾难对人民生活、家庭和社区造成的破坏性影响。《快克年代:可卡因、贪腐与阴谋》不仅审视了毒品对个人造成的破坏,还探讨了这场危机的神秘起源,以及由此导致的黑人和棕色人种不断被边缘化的问题,他们深受美国监狱和医保系统所困。
故事讲述来自得克萨斯州的1000个17岁男孩参加了从零开始的代议制政府的故事。