James Benning’s first film called The United States of America was a 1975 trip across the country, capturing its scenery through a car windshield. This second one also crisscrosses the nation, but without a car, carving it up instead into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming. The names of the places are nondescript, but the images attached to them are anything but, immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between. As we move from A to Z, the images coalesce into a portrait of today’s USA, tracing out its fault lines almost in passing: fenced-off facilities, a river bed running dry, factories and refineries, run-down streets and gas stations, a camp under a bridge. The past is there too, seeping up through the songs and speeches that sporadically pierce the background noise or the motifs that evoke a whole career the clouds, trains and cabins are stand-ins for films, not just states. As always, there’s time for more abstract thoughts too: each image may stand for a state, but representativity is slippery. Which state is more cinematic than the rest?
A series of colorized archive footage of important events during World War II. 从珍珠港事件到诺曼底登陆,二战时的重大事件在这部采用彩色历史影像的生动纪录片中变得鲜活起来。
2013年2月28日,佛罗里达坦帕市东郊住宅区,正在熟睡中的杰夫·布什和他的卧室突然消失得无影无踪。可怕的是,他消失前毫无征兆,杰夫从此杳无音信。他被陷穴吞没了。那么,陷穴是如何形成的?对于陷穴我们能做些什么?在这个不可思议的地理侦探故事片中,伊恩·斯图尔特博士发掘了地球几百万年的历史,以寻找这些问题的答案,并追问是否会有更多陷穴在我们身边出现。
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。
跟随因鬼/神现象而受苦的实际事例者和巫俗人的意识过程,记录了对至今仍留在韩国文化中的萨满教的真实采访的纪录片。
在电视剧《凡尔赛宫》热播之际,主持人、历史学家Lucy Worsley和Helen Castor来到取景地,法国凡尔赛宫,讲述这座世界最伟大建筑之一背后的真实故事。
By scanning the locations at the bottom of the ocean where sunken ships, treasures and even cities lie, the show tries to answer what they look like, how they got there and if they hide any secrets.
《克拉拉傳》,克拉拉是德國第一位化學女博士,嫁給的丈夫弗裡茨哈珀是德國著名的化學家,氮肥之父➕一戰化學戰之父。因為氮肥獲得諾貝爾化學獎,但因為研製了N多化學武器被詬病,後來也由於他猶太人身份被德國驅逐,一些親人也死于他發明的化學武器。這是他第一任妻子的傳記片,或者代表他曾經有過的良知,良知死去了,片中的兒子後來也死於自殺。女主演的不錯,是《我們的父輩》裡那位女演員。