史地类纪录片，PBS 频道 2013 年出品，是 PBS Nova 系列其中之一。
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/decoding-neanderthals.html
中文片名 ：揭密尼安德特人
中文系列名：PBS 新星
英文片名 ：Decoding Neanderthals
英文系列名：PBS Nova
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：60 min
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：2013
6萬年前，現代人首次離開非洲，來到處于冰河期、荒涼又難以居住的歐洲。但現代人并不孤獨，尼安德特人已經在歐洲生活了幾十萬年。現代人來到歐洲與尼安德特人相遇後，發生了什麽事情呢？和諧共處還是兵戎相見？
应用科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2012 年出品，是 PBS Nova ScienceNow 系列其中之一。
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/can-i-eat-that.html
中文片名 ：这算是食物吗?
中文系列名：PBS 新星 现代科学
英文片名 ：Can I Eat That?
英文系列名：PBS Nova ScienceNow
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：约 53 分钟
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：2012
Can I Eat That? What are the secrets behind your favorite foods? Why are some treats, like chocolate-chip cookies, delectable, while others, like cookies made with mealworms, disgusting? You might think you understand what makes something sweet, salty, or bitter, but David Pogue gets a taste of a much more complicated truth, as he ventures into labs and kitchens where everything from apple pie to Thanksgiving turkey to juicy grasshoppers is diced, sliced, dissected, and put under the microscope. If scientists can uncover exactly what’s behind the mouth-watering flavors and textures we take for granted every day, could they help us enjoy our food more—without packing on the pounds?
应用科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2013 年出品，是 PBS Nova 系列其中之一。
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/pharaoh-chariot.html
中文片名 ：建造法老的战车
中文系列名：PBS 新星
英文片名 ：Building Pharaoh’s Chariot
英文系列名：PBS Nova
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：约 53 分钟
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：2013
Around 3,600 years ago, reliefs in Egyptian tombs and temples depict pharaohs and warriors proudly riding into battle on horse-drawn chariots. Some historians claim that the chariot launched a technological and strategic revolution, and was the secret weapon behind Egypt’s greatest era of conquest known as the New Kingdom. But was the Egyptian chariot really a revolutionary design? How decisive a role did it play in the bloody battles of the ancient world? In “Building Pharaoh’s Chariot,” a team of archaeologists, engineers, woodworkers, and horse trainers join forces to build and test two highly accurate replicas of Egyptian royal chariots. They discover astonishingly advanced features, including spoked wheels, springs, shock absorbers, anti- roll bars, and even a convex-shaped rear mirror, leading one of them to compare the level of design to the engineering standards of 1930’s-era Buicks! By driving our pair of replicas to their limits in the desert outside Cairo, Nova’s experts test the claim that the chariot marks a crucial turning point in ancient military history.
自然科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2013 年出品，是 PBS Nova 系列其中之一。
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/australia-first-years.html
中文片名 ：澳大利亚初始的40亿年
中文系列名：PBS 新星
英文片名 ：Australia’s First 4 Billion Years
英文系列名：PBS Nova
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：53 min
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：2013
Of all the continents on Earth, none preserves a more spectacular story of our planet’s origins than Australia. NOVA’s four-part “Australia’s First 4 Billion Years” takes viewers on a rollicking adventure from the birth of the Earth to the emergence of the world we know today. With help from host and scientist Richard Smith, we meet titanic dinosaurs and giant kangaroos, sea monsters and prehistoric crustaceans, disappearing mountains and deadly asteroids. Epic in scope, intimate in nature, this is the untold story of the land “down under,” the one island continent that has got it all. Join NOVA on the ultimate Outback road trip, an exploration of the history of the planet as seen through the window of the Australian continent.
What can Australia reveal about how Earth was born and how life took hold? Join NOVA and host Dr. Richard Smith as they journey back to the very beginning of the Australian story in “Awakening.” The first stop is Western Australia, around four and a half billion years ago, where we encounter an Earth shortly after its fiery birth. Hidden in the red hills of Australia are clues to the mysteries of when the Earth was born, how life first arose, and how it transformed the planet. Experts unveil how the earliest forms of life—an odd assortment of bacterial slime—flooded the atmosphere with oxygen, sparking the biological revolution that made animal life possible. It is the beginning of the great drama of life on Earth.
How did life storm the beaches and dominate planet Earth? Ancient Australian fossils offer clues in “Life Explodes.” Half a billion years ago, Australia was still part of the super-continent Gondwana. The oceans were teeming with weird and wonderful animals, but the world above the waves remained an almost lifeless wasteland. All that was about to change, though. Host Richard Smith introduces Earth’s forgotten pioneers: the scuttling arthropod armies that invaded the shores and the waves of green revolutionaries whose battle for the light pushed plant life across the face of a barren continent. Evolution continued underwater as well, with armor-plated fish experimenting with teeth, jaws, sex, and lungs. NOVA’s prehistoric adventure continues with four-legged animals walking onto dry land—and the planet poised for disaster.
“Monsters” begins Down Under at the dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs. Host Richard Smith comes face-to-face with the previously unknown reptilian rulers of prehistoric Australia. NOVA resurrects the giants that stalked the Great Southern Land and discovers that some of these animals were among the largest ever to have walked the Earth. Others were some of the most dangerous. In the dry desert heart, scientists unearth an ancient inland ocean full of sea monsters. Opal fossils of some of these beasts paint a colorful picture of the exotic seascape, where long-necked plesiosaurs snacked on shelled creatures that grew as large as truck tires. The most fearsome was Kronosaurus, with a skull twice as long as T. rex. But reptiles didn’t have the world all to themselves. Mammals like the enigmatic platypus lived alongside them, ready for their moment in the sun.
In the wake of the catastrophic asteroid impact believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs, Australia was set adrift on a lonely voyage across southern seas. With host Richard Smith, NOVA travels the walkabout continent to uncover how it became the strange land it is today. In this final episode, “Strange Creatures,” NOVA traces the last 65 million years, revealing the events that shaped the Australia we know today. Prehistoric jungles retreated, replaced by eucalypt forests, grasslands, and deserts. When humans first arrived, giant marsupials dominated the land and the Great Barrier Reef was yet to form. This is a tale of calamity and conquest; how a conspiracy of climate, biology, and geology shaped the Earth we now call home.
自然科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2013 年出品，是 PBS Nova 系列其中之一。
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/ancient-computer.html
中文片名 ：古代计算机
中文系列名：PBS 新星
英文片名 ：Ancient Computer
英文系列名：PBS Nova
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：约 53 分钟
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：2013
1900年，一初拥有2000年历史的古希腊沉船残骸被发现了。在被打捞上来的货物中，有一具并不起眼的、已经发绿的青铜器。从该器具的外表上可以看见生锈的齿轮残件，表明这应该是一件很精致的器械。最初的X光检测证实了这个猜测；然而对于这件器械是如何运作的以及其用途，几十年来科学家们毫无头绪。最近，高科技成像技术终于揭开了这个谜底：这是世界上第一台计算机。最初被装在一个鞋盒大小的木箱中，依靠30枚精致复杂的青铜齿轮，这台器械被用来预测月食和日食的日期，记录月球在天空中细微的位移，以及计算适合举办重大活动（例如古代奥运会）的日期。
自然科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2012 年出品，是 PBS Nature 系列其中之一。
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<http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/animal-odd-couples/meet-the-odd- couples/8025/>
中文片名 ：奇特的动物伙伴
中文系列名：PBS 自然
英文片名 ：Animal Odd Couples
英文系列名：PBS Nature
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：54 min
版本 ：TV
发行时间 ：2012
A lion and a coyote, a tortoise and a goose, a goat and a horse, a dog and a deer - cross-species relationships are now being documented in increasing numbers in zoos and sanctuaries around the world. As the stories and field reports multiply, scientists have begun to reconsider what was once conventional wisdom - that humans are the only animals capable of emotions and friendships. One scientist has spent over six years studying relationships between non-related monkeys, hoping to learn whether their social bonds, their “friendships,” can provide clues as to how friendship evolved in people. Animal behavior experts Marc Bekoff and Temple Grandin offer their insights on what we can learn from interspecies relationships, and caretakers of unlikely animal couples in sanctuaries and zoos offer their own experiences with long- term bonds between species that seem to defy past assumptions.
社会科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2007 年出品，是 PBS Frontline 系列其中之一。
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/whenkidsgetlife/
中文片名 ：
中文系列名：PBS 前线系列
英文片名 ：When Kids Get Life
英文系列名：PBS Frontline
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：Approx. 85 mins.
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：2007
When Kids Get Life Human Rights Watch reports that over 2,200 inmates in America are serving life sentences without the option of parole for crimes committed as teenagers. Across the rest of the world, the total is 12. The United States is one of the only countries in the world that allows children under 18 to be sentenced to life without parole. Ofra Bikel travels to Colorado to profile five cases of juveniles who will remain in prison until they die. In December 1992, 15-year-old Jacob Ind received a life sentence for the murders of his mother and stepfather. A similar fate befell Nathan Ybanez and Erik Jensen, high school students in a wealthy suburb of Denver. Nathan killed his mother and Erik was implicated in the crime by another friend involved in the cover-up. Trevor Jones was trying to scam $100 from a classmate, but the plan went awry when his gun discharged and killed Matt Foley.Andrew Medina was only 15 when he and two acquaintances attempted a carjacking, during which a gun was fired, killing the driver. In 2006, Colorado became the first state to pass a bill changing juvenile life without parole to 40 years before parole eligibility. The bill was not retrospective, however, and has come too late for 45 former juveniles now serving life sentences, including Jacob, Erik, Nathan, Trevor and Andy.
社会科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2013 年出品，是 PBS Frontline 系列其中之一。
The_Untouchables_cover0.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/untouchables/
中文片名 ：逍遥法外
中文系列名：PBS 前线系列
英文片名 ：The Untouchables / The Untouchables: Money, Power and Wall Street
英文系列名：PBS Frontline
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：Approx. 56 mins.
版本 ：TV
发行时间 ：2013
2008年的经济危机已过去四年，没有一个华尔街高层因为不良抵押的欺诈销售而受审，为什么他们可以逃脱起诉呢？
社会科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2013 年出品，是 PBS Frontline 系列其中之一。
Two_American_Families_cover0.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/two-american-families/
中文片名 ：
中文系列名：PBS前线系列
英文片名 ：Two American Families
英文系列名：PBS Frontline
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：约 54 分钟
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：2013
Since 1992, Bill Moyers and FRONTLINE have been following the story of two ordinary, hard-working families in Milwaukee - one black, one white - as they spent two decades in an extraordinary battle to keep from sliding into poverty. With poignant and revealing intimacy, Two American Families chronicles the struggles of the Neumanns and the Stanleys as they try to hold onto their homes, their jobs, their health insurance, and a future for their children. A remarkable portrait of perseverance, the 90-minute film raises unsettling questions about the changing nature of the U.S. economy and the fate of a declining middle class.
社会科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2013 年出品，是 PBS Frontline 系列其中之一。
Syria_Behind_the_Lines_cover0.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/syria-behind-the-lines/
中文片名 ：深入叙利亚防线 / 奉阿拉之名
中文系列名：PBS 前线系列
英文片名 ：Syria Behind the Lines
英文系列名：PBS Frontline
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：Approx. 56 mins
版本 ：TV
发行时间 ：2013
In the rural heartland of Syria’s countryside, the bloody uprising against President Bashar Al Assad has taken a terrifying turn. In this highly charged documentary, award-winning filmmaker Olly Lambert lives on both sides of Syria’s sectarian frontline, witnessing the devastating effect of a religious feud that, regardless of the outcome of the war, is shaping Syria’s future. For generations, the many religions that live in Syria’s Orontes River Valley have lived together peacefully. But as the conflict spirals into a contagious and sectarian blood feud, friends and neighbors of different faiths are taking up arms against each other, as Syrian society begins to collapse. And as each side seeks more and more revenge, shells, mortars, and air attacks only escalate the hatred and violence on both sides.