This is the glorious story of the Hittites - the most powerful people in the Near East of their time. Narrated by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons, "The Hittites" brings the fascinating history of this mighty empire to life with expert interviews, stunning cinematography, dramatic reenactments, and visual effects. Highlights include a breathtaking recreation of the controversial battle of Kadesh that decimated the armies of Egypt's Pharaoh Ramesses II. Based on the actual words of the Hittites, deciphered from ancient clay tablets excavated in the 20th century, their story unfolds as beautifully as it written almost 3500 years earlier.

Documentary series made in China in the early 90s. Agland was an anthropologist and he’d already made a wonderful series in the 80s about the Baka tribe in Cameroon. For Beyond the Clouds, he spent several years in a small town in Yunnan province telling the stories of various characters he met. He focuses on normal people but in doing so tells us about China’s past as well as its present and the monumental change that was coming.

23 episode documentary, each focusing on one distinguished building and its architect, from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Season 1
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Season 1, Episode 1: Das Bauhaus in Dessau
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Walter Gropius What: Staatliches Bauhaus, architecture school Where: Dessau, Germany.
Season 1, Episode 2: Die Architekurfakultät Porto
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Álvaro Siza What: Porto's Faculty of Architecture Where: Porto, Portugal
Season 1, Episode 3: Das Familistère von Guise
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Jean-Baptiste Godin What: The Familistère, a community settlement Where: Guise, France
Season 1, Episode 4: Nemausus 1 - Sozialer Wohnungsbau der 80er Jahre
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Jean Nouvel What: Social housing complex Where: Nîmes, France
Season 1, Episode 5: Das Centre Georges Pompidou
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini What: Centre Georges Pompidou, cultural complex Where: Paris, France
Season 1, Episode 6: Die Postsparkasse Wien
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Otto Wagner What: Post Office Savings Bank Where: Vienna, Austria
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Season 2
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Season 2, Episode 1: Das Villa Dall'Ava
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Rem Koolhaas; What: Villa Dall'Ava, a single-family house; Where: Paris, France
Season 2, Episode 2: Das Johnson-Verwaltungsgebäude
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Frank Lloyd Wright; What: Johnson Wax's headquarters; Where: Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Season 2, Episode 3: Die Galleria Umberto I
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Emanuele Rocco; What: A commercial gallery; Where: Naples, Italy
Season 2, Episode 4: Satolas TGV - Der Bahnhof auf dem Land
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Santiago Calatrava; What: TGV station; Where: Lyon, France
Season 2, Episode 5: Die Felsentherme von Vals
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Peter Zumthor; What: Thermal baths; Where: Vals, Switzerland
Season 2, Episode 6: Die Pariser Kunsthochschule
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Auguste Perret; What: Fine Art School; Where: Paris, France
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Season 3
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Season 3, Episode 1: Das jüdische Museum in Berlin
Original Air Date: 2003
Who: Daniel Libeskind; What: Jewish history Museum; Where: Berlin, Germany
Season 3, Episode 2: Die Pariser Opéra Garnier
Original Air Date: 2003
Who: Charles Garnier; What: Opera House; Where: Paris, France
Season 3, Episode 3: Das Kloster La Tourette
Original Air Date: 2003
Who: Le Corbusier; What: Dominican priory; Where: Lyon, France
Season 3, Episode 4: Die Casa Mila
Original Air Date: 2003
Who: Antoni Gaudí; What: Residential/touristic building; Where: Barcelona, Spain
Season 3, Episode 5: Auditorium Building
Original Air Date: 2003
Who: Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan; What: Home of the Roosevelt University; Where: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Season 3, Episode 6: Das Gemeindezentrum von Säynätsalo
Original Air Date: 2003
Who: Alvar Aalto; What: Municipal Center / Town Hall; Where: Säynätsalo, Finland
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Season 4
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Season 4, Episode 1: Die Saline von Arc-et-Senans
Original Air Date: 2005
Who: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux; What: Saltworks' buildings; Where: Besançon, France
Season 4, Episode 2: Das Glashaus
Original Air Date: 2005
Who: Phillip Johnson; What: Private House; Where: New Canaan, Connecticut, USA
Season 4, Episode 3: Bilbao Guggenheim Museum
Original Air Date: 2005
Who: Frank Gehry; What: Modern and contemporary art museum; Where: Bilbao, Spain
Season 4, Episode 4: Das Haus von Jean Prouvé
Original Air Date: 2005
Who: Jean Prouvé; What: Prefab house; Where: Presles, France
Season 4, Episode 5: Die Sendaï-Mediathek
Original Air Date: 2005
Who: Toyo Ito; What: Mediatheque; Where: Sendaï, Japan
Season 4, Episode 6: Die Abtei Sainte Foy de Conques
Original Air Date: 2005
Who: Prosper Merimée; What: Church; Where: Conques, France

梅尔文·布拉格 (Melvyn Bragg) 带你走遍大不列颠，了解英语的冒险历程——公元前500年的一门小众日耳曼方言，到底是如何一步步成长为当今毋庸置疑的世界语言。他将根据不同词语被引进英语的大致时期来向我们讲解它们的出处和拼写。
1、语言的诞生 (Birth of a Language)
2、不登大雅之堂 (English Goes Underground)
3、圣经语言之争 (The Battle for the Language of the Bible)
4、此世、此国、此英 (This Earth, This Realm, This England)
5、英语在美洲 (English in America)
6、谈吐得体 (Speaking Proper)
7、帝国的语言 (The Language of Empire)
8、南腔北调皆英语 (Many Tongues Called English, One World Language)

The biography of former Beatle, John Lennon—narrated by Lennon himself—with extensive material from Yoko Ono's personal collection, previously unseen footage from Lennon's private archives, and interviews with David Bowie, his first wife Cynthia, second wife Yoko Ono and sons Julian and Sean.

央视 八集电视纪录片《绍兴：一座名城的2500年》以史为据,借助现代科技手段,融史料拍摄、动画制作、情景再现、专家学者采访于一体,从理性的角度诠释一段段封尘的历史,解读了历史文化名城绍兴别样的多元文化。该片获2010年度浙江省广播电视新闻奖一等奖。

经历了十年动乱，知青丁尚彪和妻子返城回到上海，学业中断，身无一技之长，令他在这个充满变革的社会里举步维艰。在朋友的鼓励下，丁尚彪于1989年6月飞往彼岸的日本，开始了求学创业之路。在北海道的阿寒町，他和一众同胞为了未来努力学习，最后却不得不迫于生计逃离这里，成为一名非法滞留者。在此期间，他的想法发生转变，眼见自己的学业无望，于是丁将全部心血花在女儿身上。拼尽全力打工，只为将女儿送往美国留学。15年的日本岁月，一家人天各一方，辛酸、喜悦、误会、理解，万般情感，言语难尽……
本片为系列纪录片《我们的留学生活——在日本的日子》收官之作。

《激荡•1978-2008》以编年体的形式，重述了中国改革开放1978年到2008年的重大经济事件：1979年看袁庚如何种好蛇口这块改革开放的试验田；1984年看王石们如何踏准步点，跨入中国的“公司元年”；1990年看中国如何启动证券交易，发展资本市场；1999年看中国如何融入世界，走向新千年；2003年看中国房地产也如何一飞冲天，面临考验；直至2008年看中国人民如何跨越新险阻，以回溯与展望进入下一个激荡三十年。
为了更好地体现口述历史的节目价值观，精准地还原中国经济史的细节，《激荡•1978-2008》采访了诸如参与国家经济政策制定的著名经济学家吴敬琏、1978年随邓小平访日记录开放进程的摄影记者钱嗣杰、质量万里行的组织者、创办者，原《经济日报》总编艾丰、著名美籍华人摄影家刘香成、曾与老记者穆青共同采访撰写《风帆起珠江》的“民间智库”王志纲、以连书4篇内参扳倒禹作敏的原《法制日报》天津站站长刘林山等“见证者”，他们口述亲历的经济事件，以媒体人与学者特有的冷静、客观观察历史真相，并在采访中首次披露大量细节始末，给予观众重现历史的真实感，完成改革开放30年中国经济史的宏伟拼图。

靖国神社，这个在东亚近代史上占据着重要位置的建筑物，至今仍会引起无数争论。它坐落于东京都千代田区九段北，里面供奉着自戊辰战争以来为国捐躯的战士的英灵，其中包括二战期间东条英机等14名甲级战犯的牌位，这也成为日本和其余东亚国家长久以来矛盾的焦点所在。来自中国的李缨前后花费十几年的时间，记录下围绕靖国神社所发生的一切：
小泉纯一郎在民众的欢呼和支持声中走入神社进行参拜；二战老兵穿着当年的军装，整齐划一前来祭拜亡灵；反对参拜的呼声从年轻人的口中响起，但他们却被固执的“长辈”驱逐出去；美国男人声援参拜，却有日本人拒绝美国国旗的出现；台湾原住民每年都要来日，强烈要求将祖先的牌位撤去带回台湾……
这些事每天每年都在发生，围绕靖国神社引发的争论久久不能平息。

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

1972 film by Michelangelo Antonioni

民国时期被认为中国最有权和最有钱的家族——蒋家、宋家和孔家到底如何崛起？所谓[宋家王朝]的建立是历史偶然，还上历史必然？我们将揭开术家三姐妹的成长故事、蒋介石和宋美龄的真实爱情、孔祥熙的发迹，以及西安事变里宋子文的关键角色。蒋家、宋家和孔家，他们在抗战时期是否团结在同一阵线，这三个家族到底有无藉由政治特权，大发不义之财？为了登上权力的巅峰，宋子文和孔祥熙的恩恩怨怨该如何解？蒋介石、宋子文和孔祥熙的子女们到底是怎样的谜样人物？
2009年《凤凰大视野》精心制作“家春秋——民国蒋宋孔家族往事”，耗资数千万，筹划三年，制作一年，走访美国、大陆、台湾、香港等地，拍摄场景超过五十处，——追寻蒋宋孔家族的生命足迹，并从南京档案馆、台湾“国史馆”和美国胡佛档案馆里寻找历史真相，为您揭开尘封已久的民国历史谜团。
《家春秋：民国蒋宋孔家族往事》讲述了独特的视角，给历史最真实的解读。解读旧中国最显赫政治豪门之间的恩恩怨怨，南京档案馆、台湾“国史馆”、美国胡佛档案馆珍藏的历史真相。
01 西安事变之蒋宋孔家族
02 蒋介石画传
03 蒋宋家族
04 宋氏三姐妹
05 末代晋商孔祥熙
06 宋子文的时代
07 蒋孔联手
08 蒋家抗战日志
09 战时外交宋子文
10 战时的蒋宋孔家族

1992 non-narrative film

A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.

BBC最新高清纪录片，将镜头瞄准我们这颗星球上的植物，由主持人Iain Stewart 教授带领大家走进植物的世界，了解植物的起源及生命机理。这个主持人之前主持过 - 地球的力量， 非常喜欢主持人Iain Stewart 教授，可能就是因为这个带有浓重苏格兰口音的家伙，该系列纪录片知识性很强，而最难能可贵的是，专业乏味的植物学知识在他和BBC主创人员鬼斧神工般的技巧下变得娓娓动听！堪称高清版的 - 植物私生活
此系列一共分为三集：
Life from Light 生命源自阳光
The Power of Flowers 花的力量
The Challenger 挑战

A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.

《维度：数学漫步（Dimensions: a walk through mathematics）》是两小时长的CG科普电影，讲述了许多深奥的数学知识，如4维空间中的正多胞体、复数、分形（fractals）、纤维化理论（fibrations）等等。

An in-depth portrayal of the university exam preparation that Chinese students undergo during their senior year of high school. For many students this exam is a ticket to a better life, so the stakes are high.