Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part miniseries.

Harold Gern, a shady businessman from New York, is spending a holiday in Puerto Rico with his attractive wife Evelyn. They are joined by Martin Joyce, Harold's lawyer, who has come to discuss the latest indictment. Harold invites him along on a boat trip during which all three try out some newly bought scuba diving equipment. When they resurface, they find out that the world has changed forever.

一个骗子决定撞死无能的船员，并将他们的死亡归咎于传说中的海洋生物，他不知道的是这个生物是真的，传说中的鬼海怪物真正现身了。

这是一部有关美国文豪、《麦田守望者》作者塞林格的纪录片。这部纪录片通过采访塞林格的同事和朋友等圈子成员，试图去展现塞林格的童年、工作方法、婚姻等私人世界的秘密。

Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for Vietnam.

Pauline Kael (1919–2001) was undoubtedly one of the greatest names in film criticism. A Californian native, she wrote her first review in 1953 and joined ‘The New Yorker’ in 1968. Praised for her highly opinionated and feisty writing style and criticised for her subjective and sometimes ruthless reviews, Kael’s writing was refreshingly and intensely rooted in her experience of watching a film as a member of the audience. Loved and hated in equal measure – loved by other critics for whom she was immensely influential, and hated by filmmakers whose films she trashed - Kael destroyed films that have since become classics such as The Sound of Music and raved about others such as Bonnie and Clyde. She was also aware of the perennial difficulties for women working in the movies and in film criticism, and fiercely fought sexism, both in her reviews and in her media appearances.

There are some movies that are so bad they're good. And there are some movies that are so bad- that they're just bad...

The 1970s was an extraordinary time of rebellion, of questioning every accepted idea: political activism, hedonism, protests, the sexual revolution, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, the music revolution, rage and liberation. Every standard by which we set our social and cultural clocks was either turned inside out or thrown away completely and reinvented. For American cinema, the 1970s was an era during which a new generation of filmmakers created work for a new kind of audience--moviegoers who were hungry for stories that reflected their own experiences and who were turning their backs on aged old studio formulas. As a result, emerging filmmakers influenced by foreign directors such as Godard, Kurosawa and Fellini coupled with the social climate and a struggling studio system, converged to create a new kind of moviemaking. Through their choice of material, filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin, Roger Corman and Paul Schrader revolutionized mainstream movies and for the first time personal visions were coming out of the studio system.

每集一小时，一共15集，长达900分钟的关于电影艺术的纪录片，制作于于2011年。这部纪录片由英国电影评论家、被称为“电影贩毒者”的马克·卡曾斯，根据自己撰写的同名著作拍摄而成，摄制期长达5年，跨越六大洲，展现了近120年的世界电影史及近千部电影作品。影片用电影化的方式讲述了电影史，探索电影人的创作如何被特定历史事件影响，而电影人之间又是怎样互相启发的。
前两集，主要是讲早起电影的诞生和发展，还有好莱坞的崛起。讲的很全面，还采访了一些电影工作者，如斯坦利·多南，罗伯特·唐尼，格斯·范·桑特，简·坎皮恩，克莱尔·丹尼斯。片中大量穿插不少经典老片的片段进行讲解，同时还有现代世界的一些取景。前两集里出现了《卡萨布兰卡》，《长屋绅士录》，《虎胆忠魂》，《我略知她一二》，《出租车司机》，《月球旅行记》，《2001太空漫游》，《西部往事》，《随心所欲》，《一个国家的诞生》，《党同伐异》，《路上的灵魂》，《公民凯恩》，《巴格达窃贼》，《乱世佳人》，《雨中曲》，《马耳他之鹰》，《摄影师》，《将军号》，《寻子遇仙记》，《城市之光》，《日落大道》，《大独裁者》，《热情似火》，《北方的纳努克》，《黑房子》，《圣女贞德蒙难记》，《狗镇》等等。