Join Dr. Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, on an expedition in the Mediterranean where he uncovers eight ancient roman wrecks beneath the sea, and thousands of artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of human history.
1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock. Sesame Street makes its debut...and Led Zeppelin perform in the gym of the Wheaton Youth Center in front of 50 confused teenagers. Or did they Filmmaker Jeff Krulik offers his take on an enduring Maryland legend, on the very night this concert was alleged to have taken place, January 20, 1969, during the first Pr...
Robert Shaw - Man of Many Voices traces the journey of a small town California boy who planned to be a minister like his father, but instead became the greatest conductor of choral music the world has ever known. At the heart of the film is the mystery of Shaw's genius. With no formal musical training, he achieved a stunning early success in popular music and later became legen...
David Livingstone is the British missionary whose exploration into the 'dark heart' of Central Africa turned him into a legend.
His meeting with American journalist Henry Morton Stanley has been immortalised by the iconic phrase, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume”.
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Livingstone’s birth in March 1813, The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone follows a pio...
ETHEL is a 95 minute feature-length documentary about the life of Ethel Kennedy. Scheduled for broadcast on HBO in 2012, the film was produced and directed by Mrs. Kennedy's Emmy Award-winning daughter, Rory Kennedy. An intimate family portrait, ETHEL includes a lengthy interview with Mrs. Kennedy, as well as interviews with seven of her children, providing unique insight into ...
藉由未曾面世的私人录音带和档案影片，引领观众从路易斯阿姆斯壮的视角，洞悉他的人生故事。讲述他如何从音乐巨星成为民权运动家，进而成为世界知名艺人。
根据纳奥米·克莱恩 (Naomi Klein)的同名著作拍摄而成，深入挖掘出美英等国如何通过推行新自由主义经济政策，来利用自然灾害、战争和恐怖主义建立其资本主义的霸主地位。
纳奥米·克莱恩以美国中情局的[休克疗法]为比喻，批判弗里德曼及芝加哥学派领军的自由市场经济狂热信徒，其 手段与目的就如同上述心理实验。这些人近四十年来趁著天灾人祸的“大好机会”，在世界各地发动经济[休克疗法]，不论是智利政变、金融风暴，还是9/11恐怖攻击、伊拉克战争、南亚海啸、卡特里娜飓风，皆成为他们推动「休克主义」的绝佳舞台。
自由市场鼓吹者不断散播的思想之一，是经济开放可以促成政治民主。然而克莱恩细究数十年来全球各地的状况，实情却是市场经济常不惜镇压民主，以激烈手段彻底实行自由市场及私有化政策，带来的不是”短期阵痛“后富裕的新世界，而是广大民众的悲惨处境。
《Reversing Roe》讲的是美国著名罗诉韦德案。“罗诉韦德案例”给了美国妇女堕胎权，等于承认美国堕胎的合法化。
Netflix出品的纪录片，相信很多人喜欢女歌手Nina Sinmone，就像【爱在日落余晖时】里朱莉·德尔佩模仿的那种唱腔和标志性的舞台动作，她是一位优秀的爵士女伶，她还是一位人权斗士。
《执着的梦想》是一部关于早期航天飞机的纪录片。这部纪录片里面再现了航天飞机的发射、着陆过程以及宇航员的太空生活。片中最令人瞩目的片段不但有从太空拍摄的地球全景，还有宇航员们，尤其是美国第一个女宇航员太空行走的特写。
当我们回顾所有那些电影和DVD中有关人类探索太空的情节时，通常我们会想到什么？奋斗。航天计划从一开始就是无止境的冲突和混乱、试验和挫折、多灾多难和百折不挠。在乐观的背后总能看到巨大的困难，在胜利的光环下则是成千上万的意外。而这部《执着的梦想》不同。在这里，我们会对离地飞天而肃然起敬，会为从太空中观看地球之美而心跳停止，会为宇航员们的日常生活而兴味盎然。《执着的梦想》，就是这样一部珍贵的DVD，它想告诉你的就是：“嘿，怎么样，太空漫游很酷吧？”
这部IMAX电影发行于1985年，当时阿波罗计划已经过去很久。NASA面对的局面是公众普遍对航天...
Few people know of him... Yet hundreds of millions of people are alive because of him. The actions of Stanislav Petrov, a retired Soviet military officer, prevented the start of a worldwide nuclear war and the devastation of much of the Earth.
