本部纪录片由美女主持人凯特·翰博尔带我们踏上这令人“神魂颠倒”的香料之旅。此次发现之旅，将解答香料是如何塑造出现代世界的。主持人凯特将到访香料的一些异域发源地，并且走遍全球去发现这些香料是如何走上我们餐桌的。凯特将访问一些以香料为生的人们，并跟随最早的那批香料探索者们的脚步，向我们娓娓道来香料背后的故事。共分三集：第一集胡椒和肉桂，第二集肉豆蔻与丁香，第三集香草与藏红花。我们喜爱的佳肴中充斥着这些异国的配料，香料对饮食起到了变革作用，如今香料可在每个厨房的橱柜中找到，但是当年寻找这些美妙香味的过程，改变了历史的发展轨迹。
你知道，整个世界都爱香料。

Presented by Julian Davison, OTTOMANS VERSUS CHRISTIANS “The Battle For Europe” travels to the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, where the power struggle between Christian Europe and the Muslim Ottoman Empire lasted for centuries.
Featuring interviews with top historians, live reenactments of pivotal events, and visits to historical sites, this three-part series explores a legendary clash of civilizations and its continuing repercussions in the modern world.
Episode 1: "Dream of Empire” airs Monday, April 10 at 11 p.m. - This episode traces the history of Ottoman influence in the Balkans over four centuries.
Episode 2: “Vienna – The Golden Apple” airs Tuesday, April 11 at 11 p.m. - This episode focuses on Ottoman advances into Europe in the 15th-17th centuries, climaxing in the second siege of Vienna in 1683.
Episode 3: “The Sick Man of Europe” airs Wednesday, April 12 at 11 p.m. - This final episode explores the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and Tsarist Russia, which resulted in the Crimean War in 1853, dragging in troops from France and England.

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《征服者》是英国BBC与美国PBS两大电视台耗巨资联合制作的一套四集历史纪录片，讲述的是15～17世纪西班牙探险家们为了追逐黄金梦，探索并摧毁美洲古代文明的故事。在影片中，主持人将带领观众沿着当年西班牙冒险家的探险之路重游故地，再现那段历程中的各种场景和事件。
第一集：阿兹特克的陷落
16世纪初，称雄美洲三百余年的大帝国阿兹特克在一小撮西班牙雇佣军和其他美洲土著部落的联合进攻下灰飞烟灭。此一悲剧的发生皆源于一个西班牙大赌徒对梦想的追求、对宗教的热忱、和对财富的贪婪……
第二集：征服印加
在考特斯征服阿兹台克之后不久，又一重大的征服事件发生在南美安第斯山脉之中。这一次的牺牲品是印加帝国及其皇帝阿塔瓦尔帕。本集借着重走当年西班牙殖民者的进攻路线，讲述了贪婪的西班牙人是如何凭着火枪利剑和背信弃义征服这个山地帝国的，以及当地的人民是如何为了维护自身的独立自由和文化传统而英勇反抗外来侵略的。
第三集：寻找黄金国
本集讲述了印加帝国崩溃后，贪婪无厌的西班牙征服者为了寻找并征服传说中的黄金国而发现世界第一大河——亚马逊河的故事。这是一个交织着贪婪与牺牲、仇恨与勇气的故事。它既描写了不同文明之间的首次接触与对话，又展示了欧洲文明带给美洲这片宁静土地的巨大后遗症。整个发现过程如同一曲跌宕起伏、宏伟壮丽的交响乐，令人陶醉期间，又难以忘怀。
第四集：四海之内皆兄弟
本集讲述了另一种性质的征服故事。它不是要征服帝国或大自然，而是要征服存在于人与人之间的偏见和歧视。本集的主角卡贝萨·德·瓦卡在一次失败了的征服探险中由于得到当地印第安人的救助而幸免于死。为了返回自己的同胞中间，他与其他三个西班牙幸存者一起，徒步穿越美洲大陆，行程长达二千多英里。一路之上他们经历了各种磨难，也与当地的印第安人结下了深厚的情谊。在这一过程中，他的思想发生了根本性的转变。他不再是自负满满的征服者，而成为将印第安人视同自己兄弟、尊重他们的独立价值并维护他们权益的第一人。他的转变令他在同胞中间遭到排斥，郁郁而终。但是，他的事业并没有就此终结。印第安人的悲惨境遇终于触及人类的理性和良知，促使他们反省自己的罪恶，并且开始为着实现全人类的兄弟之爱而不懈奋斗。
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纪录片《莫奈的睡莲：水波与光影的魔力》从印象派大师克劳德·莫奈艺术生涯的起点，法国北部的海港城市勒阿弗尔出发，沿着塞纳河逆流而上，寻访他居住的地方，创作的痕迹。在吉维尼小镇与世隔绝的花园里，莫奈从丧妻的悲痛和挫败的抑郁中恢复过来，“池里的精灵浮现在我眼前，我举起了调色板”，睡莲成了莫奈晚年生涯绘画的主题，一画就是30年。对于这片池塘，莫奈从未丧失新鲜感。透过他留下的上百幅睡莲主题画作，我们看到光影之下隐藏着每一刻不同的惊喜，和他对水波与光影的执着探索。
在生命中最后12年里，莫奈克服了一战对日常生活与心态带来的巨大冲击，在家人去世、视力衰退的老境中坚持作画，倾注了大量时间和精力在巨幅装饰之作《睡莲》上。在莫奈逝世5个月后，他的朋友、法国前总理乔治·克列孟梭为《睡莲》组图专用的橘园美术馆揭幕，今天的人们仍可在莫奈亲自设计的椭圆形展厅里，全方位沉浸于这幅杰作，迷失在宁静祥和的秘境之中。
纪录片《莫奈的睡莲：水波与光影的魔力》全程由艾莉莎·拉索斯基（Elisa Lasowski，剧集《权力的游戏》、《凡尔赛》）担任特邀解说，观众将在她的带领下前往巴黎，参观马蒙丹美术馆、橘园美术馆、奥赛博物馆以及吉维尼小镇上艺术家色彩绚丽的故居和花园，历史学家和畅销书作家罗斯·金则为本片提供更多灵感。

Dive into the heart of Van Goah. For the first time, discover in IMAX the fantastic colors and passionate brushwork of a great genius as they take on a new life before our eyes. Relive Vincent's life journey through his letters,see the places that inspired him, and the paintings. The film retraces the artist's footsteps, leading us through the painter's subject matter and sources of inspiration. Fron the Netherlands, to Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, we rediscover the places and landscapes that have inspired some of the most essential works in art history. From the dazzling yellow of the comfields to the deep blue of the sky,the entire palette of one of our most flamboyant painters explodes to light up screen

Gang of Four
Episode 1 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Art writer Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists. In the first episode, Waldemar delves into the back stories of four of the most influential Impressionists - Pissarro, Monet, Renoir and Bazille - who together laid the foundations of the artistic movement. He finds out what social and cultural influences drove them to their style of painting, how they were united and how ultimately they challenged and changed art forever.
Waldemar journeys from the shores of the West Indies, to the progressive city of Paris to the suburbs of South London, where these four artists drew inspiration from the cities and towns in which they lived. Whether it be the infamous spot on the river Seine - La Grenouillere - where Monet and Renoir beautifully captured animated people, iridescent light and undulating water or the minimalist, non-sensationalised illustrations of Pissarro's coarse countryside paintings, Waldemar discovers how the Impressionists broke conventions by depicting every day encounters within the unpredictable and ever changing sights around them.
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Painting outdoors
Episode 2 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the Impressionists by taking us outdoors to their most famous locations. Although Impressionist pictures often look sunny and relaxed, achieving this peaceful air was hard work. Trudging through fog, wind and rain, across treacherous coastal rocks and knee-deep snow, Waldemar shows how the famous spontaneity of the Impressionists is thoroughly misleading.
This episode visits the French riverside locations that Monet loved to paint, and where Renoir captured the bonhomie of modern life. Waldemar also introduces a number of technical and practical developments of the age which completely revolutionised Impressionist painting - the invention of portable easels; the use of hog's hair in paint brushes; as well as the introduction of the railway through France. And a scientific demonstration in a Swedish snowdrift explains just how right the Impressionists were to paint brightly coloured shadows in their winter scenes, despite being accused of 'hallucinating' at the time.
Finally, Januszczak explains Cezanne's part in the Impressionist story from his dark and challenging early work to his first rural landscapes in France, and then his departure from Paris and separation from the Impressionist gang.
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Painting the People
Episode 3 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the Impressionists, focusing this time on the people they painted and in particular the subjects of Degas, Caillebotte and the often forgotten Impressionist women artists. The Impressionists are famous for painting landscape but they were just as determined to paint people.
Looking closely at one of Impressionism's finest painters, Edgar Degas, Waldemar reveals how he consistently challenged traditions and strove to record real life as it appeared in the city, from sculpting the contorted movements of horses in motion at the Longchamp race course in Paris to encapsulating extravagant 3D viewpoints of the ballet dancers at the Paris Opera.
Waldemar also uncovers the intoxicating haziness the pastel produced in Degas' work when visiting his supplier Pastels de Roche. He also reveals the unusual viewpoints and dramatic perspectives of Caillebotte's paintings from the Place de L'Europe and the rebellious and revolutionary art of Morisot, Bracquemond and Cassatt, three impressive female artists who were eagerly embraced by the progressive movement of Impressionism
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Final Flourish
Episode 4 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
This episode takes a closer look at the late years of Impressionism, using the last show these artists did together as a starting point.
Waldemar looks in considerable depth at the work of Georges Seurat, taking into consideration his academic training at the Beaux-Arts School in Paris and the artists that influenced him, such as Piero della Francesca and Puvis de Chavannes.
There is also an insight into the complex but fascinating world of optics and art, and the ways in which the Impressionists were using the new discoveries in light and eyesight to influence their work. A fascinating 'after-image' experiment brings to life the ways in which our own eyes see colour, both in its presence and its absence.
Van Gogh's time in Paris, a period very little is known about, is also covered, charting the incredible journey the artist made from his brown and dull canvases to the splendid colour and light that pervaded his work on the cusp of his departure for the South of France.
The film finishes with a revisiting of Monet and his later waterlily paintings in the Orangerie in Paris. Waldemar investigates how a bad case of cataracts was responsible for a seismic shift in his colour palette and his brushstrokes. Spending time with an ophthalmologist, he finds out how old age and a fairly common ailment of the eyes caused Impressionism to shift and become radical again at the turn of the century and into the 20th century

名列「文艺复兴三杰」之首的米开朗基罗，从小展现对艺术的极高天分，更受到当时最具权势的麦迪奇家族拔擢。不料命运多舛，提拔他的知己罗伦佐竟突然辞世，顿失依靠的他，回到修道院后改学解剖，竟意外开启人像雕塑的崭新境界…。以壁画《创世纪》、《最后的审判》及雕塑《大卫像》奠定了他在艺术史上破天荒的地位。这些强烈的艺术风格，甚至影响数个世纪的艺术家们，迄今仍无人能超越其成就。

The Art of Spain – The Moorish South (1 of 3)
Critic and art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon travels from southern to northern Spain to tell the story of some of Europe’s most exciting and vital art. In an exploration of Moorish Spain, he looks at Muslim political and cultural influence as he travels from Cordoba to Granada, seeing classic buildings such as the Great Mosque in Cordoba, the Alcazar in Seville and the Alhambra in Granada. He also shows how the Moors introduced new foods – including citrus fruits, coffee and spices – to Spain.
The Art of Spain – The Dark Heart (2 of 3)
He journeys to the country’s scorched centre to explore Spanish art of the 16th and 17th centuries, a period that became known as the Golden Age. Tracing the rise and fall of the Spanish Empire, the brutal conquest of the New World, and the religious madness of the Inquisition he discovers how a history so violent produced such beautiful art.
The Art of Spain – The Mystical North (3 of 3)
In the final part, he reveals how the north of the country has produced some of the most dazzling and iconic art of the modern age. Spain’s turbulent history has shaped artists from Francisco Goya to Pablo Picasso. Graham-Dixon argues that Spanish architecture is the art form now taking the nation forward in the new millennium.

BBC四台的三集纪录片，《耶路撒冷三千年》作者西蒙·蒙蒂菲奥里以历史学家和旅游者的身份，带你饱览西班牙的美景与之两千年的历史。

These days, nobody takes Rubens seriously. His vast and grandiose canvases, stuffed with wobbly mounds of female flesh, have little appeal for the modern gym-subscriber. And it's not just the bulging nudity we don't like. The entire tone of Rubens's art offends us. Everything in it is too big - the epic dramas full of tragedy, the fantastical celestial scenery, the immense canvases and murals adorning the walls and ceilings of Europe's grandest palaces. All of it seems too much for modern sensibilities.
But Waldemar Januszczak begs to differ. In Waldemar's eyes, Rubens has been traduced by modern tastes, and a huge misunderstanding of him has taken place. By looking in detail at Rubens's fascinating life, by understanding his art in more enlightened ways, Waldemar sets out to correct the extra-large misconceptions that have arisen about Rubens.

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三集纪录片《追寻伦勃朗》以画家的私人生活为切入角度，以人带画作，在阿姆斯特丹以及几个伦勃朗画作的收藏馆内拍摄，从画家留下的大量笔记、档案、同时代人记述中，还原大师作为创作者和所处时代的面貌。三集分别讲述伦勃朗早期成名到妻子故世、巅峰期的夜巡到负债累累宣布破产、潦倒困苦与晚年杰作。

在艺术史学家西蒙·沙玛看来，伦勃朗是有史以来最伟大的艺术家。在这部美丽的影片中，研究伦勃朗的领先专家走近这位荷兰艺术家面对老年挑战时的最后作品。在去世前的几年，他还在寻找一种全新的艺术语言描绘衰老时的喜悦和痛苦。衰老并没有削弱他的创造力，在他生命的最后岁月，甚至还凝聚了新的创作能量。伦勃朗的晚年生活颠沛流离，遭受着疾病、贫穷和失去亲人的痛苦。但是在这种痛苦中，他依然创作出了美丽精致的作品；而且，尽管被当时的社会认为不入流甚至怪异，但他最后的作品却充满了激情、创新和深刻的自我反省。这部影片拍摄于风景如画的阿姆斯特丹，是一次华丽的视觉盛宴，同时提供了对这位伟大艺术家艺术生涯中最活跃时期的深刻洞察。

In her new documentary, Oeke Hoogendijk (The New Rijksmuseum) delves into the world of the old masters. My Rembrandt, in her own words, has become an 'epic art thriller', in which the filmmaker gives a fascinating insight into what makes the work of the Dutch master so special and why his art touches people so deeply.

Watch as a cast of Vermeer enthusiasts and experts create the largest Vermeer exhibition ever set to be mounted at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This fascinating documentary is a unique opportunity to discover what goes on behind the scenes at exhibitions of this scale, from the latest techniques for determining what makes a Vermeer truly Vermeer to new discoveries while searching for the master’s paintings around the world.

2016年是艺术大师耶罗尼米斯·博斯逝世500周年。《博斯，梦幻花园》是一部关于他的作品《人间乐园》的纪录片，这幅画是他最重要的作品，也是全球最知名的画作之一。这幅画的涵义十分复杂，即便如今它在西班牙普拉多博物馆中久经高科技和再三修复的考验，依然潜藏着无数隐喻尚待能够理解它的人去解读，而本片正是希望通过记录这幅画给当今世界各地无数作家、画家、音乐家带来的灵感，从而激发人们去发掘其更深层次的涵义。

凡尔赛宫，欧洲最雄伟壮丽的宫殿之一。本片讲述凡尔赛宫的荣辱沉浮。

In this two-part series, Simon Reeve travels to Greece, one of the most beautiful, troubled, and extreme countries in Europe. Travelling from the Islands of the Aegean to the rugged and mountainous north, Simon gets behind the picture-postcard image to learn more about Greece and the Greeks - and why the country has faced a seemingly endless economic crisis. Along the way he encounters an extraordinary cast of characters, from rebel monks and gun-toting priests, to desperate migrants and an injured bear cub.
The first leg of Simon Reeve’s journey around Greece takes him from the holiday islands of the Aegean to the capital city of Athens.
Off the tiny island of Pserimos Simon goes underwater with the divers who still hunt for the sea creature which made these islands rich: the natural sponge. He hears how the island’s population is struggling in the face of declining stocks and the wider economic crisis.
Travelling onto Lesvos, just a few miles from the Turkish coast, Simon encounters another of the huge challenges facing the country: the migrant crisis. The island has become Europe’s frontline, with thousands of refugees arriving daily, fundamentally changing the lives of the islanders.
On Greece’s largest island, Crete, Simon heads to the rugged mountains where every shepherd is armed and the local priest is also head of the local gun club. Camping out under the stars Simon learns how for Cretans, memories of Germany’s role in the Second World War still colour their view of the Greek debt crisis.
In Athens, Simon investigates the effects of that crisis. He hears how hard life is for an impoverished community living in converted shipping containers, and in the city he is confronted by angry protesters - and sees just how quickly these protests can descend into a riot.

We begin with the search for traces in Yugoslavia’s prehistory. Under the influence of changing rulers and empires, the country’s structure is formed over centuries as home to five nationalities with three languages and four different religions. However, in the early 20th century, the first ethnic conflicts begin. Only after World War II does the popular hero and dictator Tito succeed in uniting a peaceful Yugoslavia. But after his death, the country plunges into chaos.