Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists - the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider's web. It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please. This technology is already being used to m...
"A Cambodian Spring" is an intimate and unique portrait of three people caught up in the chaotic and often violent development that is shaping modern-day Cambodia. Shot over six years, the film charts the growing wave of land-rights protests that led to the 'Cambodian spring' and the tragic events that followed. This film is about the complexities - both political and personal, of fighting for what you believe in.
There are about 600 murders each year in the UK. So, what drives people to kill? Are some people born to kill or are they driven to it by circumstances? In this programme, Michael Mosley delves into the BBC archives to chart scientists' progress as they probed the mind of the murderer to try to understand why people kill, and to find out whether by understanding murder we can p...
日本电影导演小津安二郎是国际影坛上备受尊崇的大师，欧美和亚洲的不少后时导演自认受到他的作品启发和影响，德国的维姆．文德斯就是其中之一。本片是维姆．文德斯对小津致敬之作，他在八十年代中期亲自跑到日本去追寻小津的足迹，以日记手法纪录他对东京这个城市的感觉。 1982年温达斯在罗马一次放映会上，选择了日本导演小津安二郎（Yasujiro Ozu， 1903-63）的《东京物语》（Tokyo Monogatari， 1953），作为对自己电影工作有特别影响力的作品来播放，并触发拍摄这个属於自己版本的“东京物语”的念头。温氏声明并非本著朝圣的心态“寻找小津”，纵然他相信小津的留世作品最有资格被摆放在电影艺术的殿堂。他之所以推崇小津，是因小津“在掌握了经由美国推展及至全球的电影的语言后，竟能反过来从中调制出一种完全个人的景观；在拍摄某样事物时，能让事物保存原有的...
We only know the end of the story...and that's just the beginning.
每个人背后都有一个足以撼动心灵的故事。法国知名的摄影师Yann Arthus-Bertrand就用了3年的时间，走访全球60个国家，让2,020位不同肤色、种族、性别的人，在镜头前诉说自己的故事。由乌克兰的自由战士、马里的农民，到美国的死囚，各人的故事集结成一部纪录片《HUMAN》。 纪录片中，受访者只站在纯黑色的背景中细诉自己的故事，没有花巧的剪接，甚至不多赘述受访者的身份。每个人自身的经历，足以为观众带来震撼。
发现世界海洋里满是塑料垃圾后，这名纪录片导演调查了该污染对环境的恶劣影响。
西方军队撤离后，阿富汗最年轻的女市长冒着生命危险带领下一代阿富汗人争取受教育的权利。
