应用科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2009 年出品。

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中文片名 ：
中文系列名：
英文片名 ：Brain Fitness 2: Sight and Sound
英文系列名：
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：2009
影片内容介绍
剧情简介
This program, specifically designed to help people get the most from their vision and hearing as they age, considers how these senses change throughout life and what people can do to keep them healthy and fully functional.

应用科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2010 年出品。

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中文片名 ：
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英文片名 ：Brain Fitness Frontiers
英文系列名：
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：2010
影片内容介绍
剧情简介
This is a fascinating documentary about the human brain, how it functions, how it ages, and how to slow that process. However, the title is misleading. I was expecting specific exercises to sharpen the viewer’s mind, maybe some memory or concentration drills. But there is none of that on the disc. The viewer is left to pretty much figure out what to do on their own, although it is mentioned that physical activity helps keep the brain younger…."

应用科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2008 年出品。

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影片原始规格:
中文片名 ：
中文系列名：
英文片名 ：The Brain Fitness Program
英文系列名：
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：2008
影片内容介绍
剧情简介
The Brain Fitness Program is based on the brain’s ability to change and adapt, even rewire itself. In the past two years, a team of scientists has developed computer-based stimulus sets that drive beneficial chemical, physical and functional changes in the brain. Dr. Michael Merzenich of the University of California and his colleagues share their scientifically based set of brain exercises in this life-altering program. Peter Coyote narrates.

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应用科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2009 年出品。

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影片原始规格:
中文片名 ：呼救
中文系列名：
英文片名 ：Cry For Help
英文系列名：
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：Approx. 56 mins
版本 ：TV
发行时间 ：2009
影片内容介绍
剧情简介
现代社会，青少年越来越多地面对抑郁、焦虑和精神病，本片将以第一人称视角研究这些处于精神疾病中的青少年。通过他们的谈话，文件，故事，以及他们的情感斗争，了解新世界中的青少年。探讨治疗，心理健康测试及社区康复项目，使家长和教育工作者认识到青少年所面临的麻烦……

自然科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2009 年出品，是 PBS Nature 系列其中之一。

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http://www.thirteen.org/programs/nature/born-wild-the-first-days-of-life–preview/

影片原始规格:
中文片名 ：新生儿的头几天
中文系列名：PBS 自然
英文片名 ：Born Wild: The First Days of Life
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 ：2009
影片内容介绍
剧情简介
Across the animal kingdom, some of the most essential lessons — and the most extreme challenges — occur in the first moments of life. From ostrich to orangutan, egg sac to live birth, infanticide to matricide, the diversity of behaviors between parent and progeny is as great as the diversity of life on our planet. As animal parents struggle to help their young survive their first days in the wild, they face seemingly insurmountable odds. Penguins travel literally the ends of the Earth to protect their infants, facing Antarctic blizzards while they incubate their eggs. Amaurobius spider mothers offer their own bodies for their newborns to feast on. Orangutan mothers face up to eight years of single parenthood raising their infants.

Understandably, the process of birthing and raising young is one of the most stressful experiences an animal can endure. And it is in these very trials that the most extraordinary glimpses of life in the wild come to light.

社会科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2002 年出品，是 PBS Frontline 系列其中之一。

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中文片名 ：
中文系列名：PBS 前线系列
英文片名 ：American Porn
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 ：2002
影片内容介绍
剧情简介
In “American Porn,” FRONTLINE reports on the forces behind the explosion of sexually explicit material available in American society. Through interviews with adult entertainment executives and lawyers, porn producers and directors, federal and state prosecutors, anti-porn activists and a Wall Street analyst covering the entertainment industry, the program examines the business ties between respected corporations and porn companies, the rise of extreme hardcore porn, and the pending political battle that may soon engulf the multibillion-dollar pornography industry.

“American Porn” begins with an inside look at some of today’s most successful pornography businesses – from Larry Flynt Publications to the popular Internet site Danni’s Hard Drive – to see how their profits have exploded in the past few years. According to Flynt, his company – a conglomerate of movies, strip clubs, sex emporiums (including the upscale Hustler Hollywood), and Internet sites – is worth $400 million. Danni’s Hard Drive proprietor Danni Ashe, a former exotic dancer turned dot-com millionaire and CEO, told FRONTLINE she expected to earn $8 million last year alone.

自然科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 1995 年出品，是 PBS Nova 系列其中之一。

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中文片名 ：蚂蚁: 运行这个世界的小动物
中文系列名：PBS 新星
英文片名 ：Ants: Little Creatures Who Run the World
英文系列名：PBS Nova
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
导演 ：Jérôme Raynaud
语言 ：英语
时长 ：55 min
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：1995
影片内容介绍
剧情简介
NOVA looks at the most successful life forms on the face of the planet in Ants: Little Creatures Who Run the World, hosted by Harvard University’s internationally renowned ant authority, naturalist Edward O. Wilson. What’s impressive about ants is how they practice what we preach: family values. Unselfishness is the rule. Everything they do is for their colony’s good. For them, socialism works.

史地类纪录片，PBS 频道 2002 年出品。

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http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/htmlver/

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中文片名 ：斯巴达战士
中文系列名：
英文片名 ：The Spartans
英文系列名：
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：约 180 分钟
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：2002
影片内容介绍
劇情簡介
In part due to the release of the film Troy, PBS Home Video and Paramount have issued a fine three-part documentary look at The Spartans (2003), hosted by the very well spoken historian Bettany Hughes. On location, riding all over Greece, miss Hughes tells us the story in chronological order with little overlap between the three shows.

We learn of how Sparta created innovations in Western Civilization that were remarkable and too often deadly. Their infanticide inspired Adolf Hitler, Totalitarianism and introduced a nightmarish militaristic homosexual society where 14-year-old boys (if they made it though insane military training from birth; the weakest babies were tossed to their death at birth), took male lovers. They would keep them until they were weaned off of them, if and when they got married to women. For a long time, they did create some of the deadliest fighters the world ever knew, but the series is smart enough to point out that these boys were on the level of animals far before their pairing with older male lovers. Everyone else was relegated to being “put in their place” as it were, though some of the women were in oddly liberated positions.

This series shows the decades of war with Athens, then the onslaught of Persian forces. There are other oddities, art (which inspired later Fascist art) and the remnants of these ancient civilizations and we are told (to the best of anyone’s knowledge so far) what happened. Many questions remain seriously unanswered, but many are and this is the kind of quality TV that more than keeps PBS’ reputation of quality TV in tact. Good show.

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Part 1
THE SPARTANS opens at Thermopylae and with the epitaph of the Three Hundred — and very stirring it is to hear this spoken in the original Greek — before introducing some of the topics that will be addressed in the program. (Hmm. The claim that “male homosexuality was compulsory” is extremely dubious; the first boldfaced assertion as fact of a subject hotly debated among ancient and modern experts.) After the introduction, we journey to the Dark Ages of Greece, the end of the Achaean Age and the coming of the Dorian Greeks to the Peloponnesus and Laconia. An effective look at the development of hoplite warfare is presented. Next comes the Messenian conquest, then the establishment of the Spartan constitution. The upbringing of Spartan youths, warts and all, is then addressed at length. A good point is made that the sublimation of the individual as practiced by the Spartans can be very liberating – “the possibility of transcending your limitations as an individual and becoming part of something bigger and better.” Spartan institutions are credited for initiating a system of political rights and responsibilities among its citizens centuries before other Greek states conceived of such things.

The finding of the so-called statue of Leonidas in 1925 is used to introduce the Persian Wars, which are then examined in detail. There is much footage of Thermopylae, including the eponymous hot springs, and the commentary casts the Spartans’ self-sacrifice in terms that hearken to the Japanese samurai’s bushido code.

Part 2
This segment begins by exploring at how Sparta and Athens fell out after the Persian Wars, with a look at Athenian politics and society and how these contrasted to Sparta’s. This is a refreshingly non-partisan treatment, not hesitating to be equally critical of Athens. Women’s life in Sparta is given much attention. Sparta comes off as considerably more enlightened, by modern Western standards, than Athens. (Interesting sidebar – in her remarks during a November 24, 2003, online chat with Channel 4 (UK) viewers, narrator Bettany Hughes, when asked where she’d have rather lived, Sparta or Athens, replied “Sparta. No doubt.”) Hughes wryly notes how Spartan women were “objects of fear and fascination” to non-Spartan men. The legacy of these “radical” Spartan customs on later societies is discussed. Amusingly, whether by design or not, Hughes wears a scarlet dress for much of this sequence – fit garb for a Spartanette – and conducts her narration while striding purposefully about the Laconian countryside or riding on horseback in full exhibition of energetic Spartan vitality.

Lastly, the Laconian earthquake of 465 or 464 BC and subsequent helot revolt is noted and seen as the event that lit the sparks of conflict between Greece’s two leading cities. The opening clashes of the Peloponnesian War and the Spartan disaster at Sphacteria ends Part 2.

Part 3
The last section of the film opens at Delphi and takes a look at Greek religion and Spartan attitudes toward the gods and oracles before resuming the history of the Peloponnesian War. Alcibiades, the Syracuse expedition, and Lysander are all examined, taking up half of Part 3. Then the period of the Spartan Hegemony is briefly described, shaped by the “crippled kingship” of Agesilaus and marked by power struggles among Sparta’s ruling factions. Hughes notes the critical decline of Spartan citizen manpower and the rise of Thebes as a rival. She takes us to the battlefield of Leuctra, where Spartan military superiority was broken in 371 BC. The remaining sequences very quickly sketch how classical Sparta became a second-class power and finally a tourist attraction for wealthy Romans. The show concludes with a summation of Sparta’s influence on Western philosophy.

THE SPARTANS is a standout documentary, wonderfully photographed and directed, and is highly recommended as a visual overview of Spartan history.

社会科学类纪录片，BBC , PBS 频道 2003 年出品。

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http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/

影片原始规格:
中文片名 ：寻找莎士比亚
中文系列名：
英文片名 ：In Search of Shakespeare
英文系列名：
电视台 ：BBC /PBS
地区 ：英国/美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：约 58 分钟/集
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：2003
影片内容介绍
剧情简介
Complete four part series exploring the life of the world’s greatest and most famous writer. Presenter-led, mixing travel, adventure, live action interviews and specially shot documentary and live action sequences with the RSC on the road. A History series - it focuses not on the plays, but on the history and sets the life of the poet in the extraordinary times in which he lived. We are introduced to the dark world of Queen Elizabeth’s police state - a time of surveillance, militarism and foreign wars. We are reminded that Shakespeare lived through the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot, the colonisation of the New World and the beginnings of British power in America. But most importantly Shakespeare also lived through England’s Cultural Revolution: an enforced split with the old medieval English spirit world which was to lead the English people into a brave new Protestant future. A split which defined Shakespeare’s life -and our modern world.

分集介绍
A Time of Revolution
Archival evidence, from spies’ reports to a coded prison diary, reveals the fascinating dark side of Shakespeare’s world. Wood traces William’s early days, exploring his schooling, his father’s shady business deals and the dark secret that ruined the family. Finally, in Worcester Cathedral, the riddle of Shakespeare’s shotgun wedding is untangles, an event that left him a teenage father with decidedly slim career prospects.

The Lost Years
Little is known about Shakespeare’s life between the ages of 18 and 28 - however, there are some intriguing theories. Did he serve in a Catholic house during a dangerous time of Protestant reform? Or did he spread propaganda for the Elizabethan government in the actors’ company the Queen’s Men? Historian Michael Wood investigates the Bard’s secret history, watches actors of the Royal Shakespeare Company bring his scripts to life, and learns more about the violent death of Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare’s great rival.

The Duty of Poets
With Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream - a film of which follows

he became England’s top entertainer. But tragedy struck when his only son died aged 11. Plunged into a midlife crisis, Shakespeare fell for a teenage nobleman, had an affair with a married woman and was summonsed for GBH. Meanwhile, his theatre company built the Globe and, in the midst of it all, he created some of literature’s most enduring characters.
For All Time
As well as a visit to the present Queen’s royal robe-makers that provides evidence of Shakespeare’s role in the coronation. Wood examines the popular effect of the Gunpowder Plot, to which the playwright responded with a tale of regicide, and also sheds new light on Shakespeare’s strange bequest to his wife Anne in his will.

Extras
TheBox

应用科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2010 年出品。

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http://www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife/

影片原始规格:
中文片名 ：情感生活
中文系列名：
英文片名 ：This Emotional Life
英文系列名：
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：约 240 分钟
版本 ：DVD
发行时间 ：2010
影片内容介绍
剧情简介
This 3-part series represents what television does best. It opens a window into real lives, exploring ways to improve our social relationships, cope with emotional issues, and become more positive, resilient individuals. Hosted by Daniel Gilbert, Harvard psychologist and best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness.

分集介绍
Episode 1: Family, Friends & Lovers
What activities in our brain lay the foundation for our everyday interactions? Can they help us to understand why some relationships flourish and others fail?

The first episode, Family, Friends & Lovers, looks at the importance of relationships and why they are central to our emotional well-being.

We meet a young boy adopted from a Russian orphanage, whose story illustrates how a lack of attachment in infancy fundamentally shapes his ability to build relationships for years to come. We meet the young parents of newborn twins, a couple in therapy for a troubled marriage, a teenager who was bullied with tragic consequences, two women grappling with the stress of workplace conflicts and other characters. Through their stories we achieve a better understanding of the importance of social connections and relationships.

Episode 2: Facing Our Fears
Why do we have negative emotions and how can we best manage them?

In the second episode, Facing Our Fears, we look at emotions that are commonly regarded as obstacles to happiness — such as anger, fear, anxiety, and despair.

Our brains are designed for survival, and the negative emotions they create are vital to that mission. But those negative emotions can spiral out of control with debilitating effects. We meet a woman whose inability to control her temper is jeopardizing her relationships, a college student whose fear of flying is limiting her life and a teenager who is struggling to overcome clinical depression on the eve of attending college. We also meet veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and follow their journeys to find effective treatment.

Across the episode, science reminds us that we are of two minds — a rational brain that’s relatively new and an emotional brain that’s older than time. Sometimes emotion overwhelms reason, sometimes reason outwits emotion, and it is the endless struggle that makes our lives so painful, so joyous and so interesting.

Episode 3: Rethinking Happiness
What is happiness, why is it important and how can we attain more of it?

The last episode, Rethinking Happiness, explores happiness. It is so critical to our well-being, and, yet, it remains such an elusive goal for many of us.

We meet individuals facing major turning points in their lives — a job loss, a cancer diagnosis, the death of a child, an accident — as well as those facing more common struggles. We learn from the latest research that we often incorrectly predict what will bring us greater happiness, leading us to look for it in the wrong places.

As the study of behavior turns more toward positive emotions, we explore the latest research on the activities and qualities that foster them, such as meditation, compassion, forgiveness and altruism. We also share the remarkable stories of resilient individuals that scientists are studying to learn more about us all, including a man who overcame an abusive childhood to become a renowned surgeon and a Vietnam veteran who survived torture, solitary confinement and seven years as a POW, yet emerged emotionally unscathed. Understanding why some people have the ability to bounce back after disaster strikes, while others do not, sheds light on how all of us can lead happier, more fulfilling lives.

The film ends by coming full circle to the understanding that it is the quality of our relationships — with friends, family and the larger community — that ultimately defines our happiness.