BBC“电视史上的里程碑”，当代艺术历史最具雄心壮志的纪录片拍摄工作，由著名艺术历史学家克拉克爵士担任编剧与主持，探讨西欧文明，而爵士更在本片中界定了人类文明发展中的几个重要阶段。《文明的轨迹》历时两年才拍摄完毕，剧组跨越13个国家，曾走访百多个城市拍摄，本纪录片首年播出时更被喻为电视史上的代表作。克拉克爵士引人入胜的对白，再加上欧洲地标动人画面，带领我们探索自罗马帝国沦亡至工业革命用其后的文明发展。这种通过艺术、音乐来呈现历史观点的做法，成为日后无数纪录片看齐并努力超越的基准。
"Kenneth Clark's sumptuous,magisterial,one-man servey of the achievements of bumanistic civilisation is a TV landmark" The daily mail
In 1966 BBC Television embarked on its most ambitious documentary series to date.The eminent art historian Lord Clark was commissioned to write and present an epic examination of Western Eyuopean culture,defining what he considered to be the crucial phases of its development.Civilisation:A personal View by Lord Clark would be more than two years in the making,with filming in over 100 locations across 13 countries.The lavish series was hailed as a masterpiece when it was first transmitted in 1969.
From the fall of the Roman Empire to the Industrial Revolution and beyond,Clark's compelling narrative is accompanied by breathtaking colour photography of Europe's grearest landmarks.This "history of ideas as illustrated by art and music'remains the benchmark for the numerous programmes it inpired.
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大卫·艾登堡禄爵士回忆《文明的轨迹》制作过程 Sir David Attenborough remembers the making of Civilisation
剧相馆 Photo gallery of behind-the-scenes stills

Artist David Hockney discusses his theory that artists were secretly using optical devices such as mirrors and lenses in creating their work as early as the 15th century. Examples from Flemish and Italian art are studied as he examines how famous paintings have had their noted mysteries newly solved; he also makes comparisons to modern film and digital imagery.

Intelligent, gripping, innovative, Robert Hughes' eight-part exploration of modern art gets an airing on BBC Four. First shown on BBC Two in the 1980s, the series looks at different themes rather than presenting the art chronologically.
Ben Lewis: "It is the greatest series on art ever made"
The Mechanical Paradise - Episode 1
Thursday 8 July 10pm-11pm
Traces how developments in technology inspired art between 1880 and the end of WWI, leading to movements like cubism and futurism.
The Powers that Be - Episode 2
Thursday 8 July 11pm-midnight
Hughes explores the interplay between art and politics, seeing how artists were affected by the development of mechanised warfare and ideologies like fascism and communism.
The Landscape of Pleasure - Episode 3
Thursday 15 July 10pm-11pm
The French artists who attempted to reconcile man with nature, from the determination of the impressionists to paint outside to Matisse's vibrant use of colour.
Trouble in Utopia - Episode 4
Thursday 15 July 11pm-midnight
How modern architects in the wake of the Bauhaus aspired to change societies with their designs, a move represented both by Le Corbusier and the plans for the city Brasilia.
The Threshold of Liberty - Episode 5
Thursday 22 July 10pm-11pm
The art movement that gripped its exponents with the fervour of a religion: surrealism. Artists like Di Chirico, Ernst, Miró and Dalí; brought the subconscious to the fore and attempted to tap into innocent and irrationality.
The View From the Edge - Episode 6
Thursday 22 July 11pm-midnight
Expressionism sprung out of the harsh, secular atmosphere of the 20th Century and evolved, through the strong colours and often sombre moods of artists like Munch, to the non-figurative work of Pollock and De Kooning.
Culture as Nature - Episode 7
Thursday 29 July 10pm-11pm
Artists began to take man-made images as their inspiration, leading to the pop art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein as well as Stuart Davis' collages inspired by jazz.
The Future That Was - Episode 8
Thursday 29 July 11pm-midnight
The final episode in the series explores the decline of modernism and how various artists have reacted to the consequent commercialisation of their art.
BBC four

1992 non-narrative film

DATONG follows the life and work of a controversial Chinese Communist Mayor GENG YANBO to tell the story about how he takes a radical reform to demolish 140,000 households and relocate half a million people to give way to restoration of Ancient relic walls in order to adopt a clean economic growth from tourism and culture, which he believes will do good to DA TONG citizen in the long term. With two years in the footsteps of GENG, along with the changing ideology and confrontations from the public, the film is trying to draw a looming shape of future of China.

In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics. Within weeks word spread: a little-known mathematician, with no permanent job and working in complete isolation, had made an important breakthrough towards solving the Twin Prime Conjecture. Yitang Zhang's techniques for bounding the gaps between primes soon led to rapid incremental progress by the Polymath Group, and then to a further major innovation by James Maynard. The film is a study of Zhang's rise from obscurity and a disadvantaged youth to mathematical celebrity. The story of quiet perseverance amidst adversity, and Zhang's preference for thinking and working in solitude, is interwoven with a history of the Twin Prime Conjecture as told by several mathematicians, many of whom have wrestled with this enormously challenging problem in Number Theory-Daniel Goldston, Kannan Soundararajan, Andrew Granville, Peter Sarnak, Enrico Bombieri, James Maynard, Nicholas Katz, David Eisenbud, Ken Ribet, and Terry Tao.

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.

A documentary that follows electronic musician Hot Sugar in his quest to capture, transform and extract meaning from the sounds and silences of every day life.

建于1899年的上绒布寺位于珠峰北麓，距峰顶约20公里，是地球上海拔最高的寺庙，相传莲花生大师曾在此修行。阿古桑杰是寺中唯一的僧人，他将珠峰视作空行母的化身，人类不应当打扰她，但他的儿子却是一名毕业于“西藏登山学校”的出色高山向导。
这所全球唯一持续招生的登山学校仅面向珠峰脚下的两个县招生，目的是花四年时间把牧民的孩子培养成勇敢坚毅的高山向导，他们将在每年仅有几天的登顶期到来之前铺路、修保护绳、搭建从大本营到8400的所有营地、搬运物资和行李，从而最大限度地保障登山客的安全，好让他们不断突破自己，前往独自无法抵达的高处……
电影讲述的就是这样一僧一寺、一座山、一群人的故事。它的名字来自于藏民们画在青藏高原岩壁上的白色小梯子，当地人称之为“天梯”，并相信它可以接引世人的灵魂通往圣地，而这些珠峰的引路少年们扮演的正是“天梯”的角色——有人将8848当成旅行的终点，但对他们而言，这只是起点与成年礼。

《马赛克里的中国》是由凤凰网文化频道原创出品的微纪录片项目，围绕着“中国人的性历程与性观念”这一主题深入讨论国人的性现状，纵观古今国人对于性与性别的认知态度，以性人权和性多元平等的视角观照当下。五集短片，分别涉及古代性文化、文革时期的性、文学中的性、影视中的性，以及性别多元等问题。我们邀请了李银河、刘达临、朱大可、陈村、郝建等五位各界专家，从不同视角展开讨论。

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.

混沌理论，一直是困扰人类数千年的一个迷。这种在动态系统中无法用单一的数据关系解释和预测的神秘理论，在科学界只有初步的了解。在本部纪录片中，吉姆·奥卡利里教授将带领我们探索这神秘的混沌理论，试图揭开这层归因于神奇或者上帝力量的神秘面纱。
吉姆教授带着宇宙是如何由从尘埃中诞生，又是如何孕育出智慧生命的难题，开始了他的探秘旅程。混沌中的数学可以解释宇宙中从无序中产生有序的神奇景象，他揭示出大自然那些令人叹为观止的美丽和结构中隐藏的科学规律，它是物理定律的固有的组成。看过本片之后，你眼中的世界会变得与众不同。

In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.

数学是研究数量、结构、变化以及空间模型等概念的一门学科。透过抽象化和逻辑推理的使用，由计数、计算、量度和对物体形状及运动的观察中产生。数学家们拓展这些概念，为了公式化新的猜想以及从合适选定的公理及定义中建立起严谨推导出的真理。
本片分为4部分,为您讲述数学之谜.
1-数学-宇宙的语言.
2-中国东方的天才.
3-空间的边缘.
4-无穷大及其超越.

关于英国电子乐的记录片，时间跨度从70年代末的后朋克时期到80年代中期的电子流行。
70年代末，朋克还占据着英国的大街小巷，但总会有不同的东西吸引着年轻人的视线，越来越灰暗的伦敦街道也预示着什么的到来。
在JG Ballard科幻小说的刺激下和德国乐队Kraftwerk的启发下一帮年轻人，穷的响叮当的年轻人，包括Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Volatire开始了采样器在英国的旅行。
接下来是嘉里纽曼在1979年的成功真正让合成电子乐进入到了主流社会。再接下来就是大名鼎鼎的Depeche Mode,他们今年还要在伦敦演出，幻想一下他们30年前的样子，噢，11月份之前你都可以在bbc的网站上看见他们。这一下爆发的合成流行风包括了 Ultravox, Soft Cell, OMD and Yazoo 。
每个乐队都有一个故事，1983年的宠物店男孩和新秩序巩固了合成流行的地位并指出了未来电子乐的方向。伊恩科虒斯永远长眠，但他如果看到今天的景象不知会做何感想，或者也会像他当年乐队的采样Bernard Sumner一样，沉着而幽默，因为音乐是永远向前的。

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.

讲了美国的摩托车文化。

纪录片。关于中国改革开放后出现的五位作曲家，谭盾，瞿小松，陈其钢，莫五平，郭文景。

2014 film directed by Brian Knappenberger

一部史诗般的关于史上最伟大的探险——人类的历史——的电视系列片。在宇宙繁衍了100亿年之后，一颗理想的行星出现了；而在人类诞生之前，恰当的生存条件在地球上出现又花费了30亿年。从那以后，人类的历史，从打猎采摘社会到全球化的公民社会，便通过关键的转折点以快进的方式展开。这是一个关于关联的故事：为何有限观念生根发芽并传播到了全球各地，以及一地居民的生活史如何被另外一个地方发生的事情所影响到的。这是“我们”的故事——一个包括胜利与征服，包括在一个严酷的星球上生存的故事。这是“我们”在看似没有可能的情况下生存下来的故事。