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中文片名 ：布克和海尔的真实故事
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英文片名 ：In Search of Burke and Hare
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电视台 ：ITV
地区 ：英国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：约 45 分钟
版本 ：TV
发行时间 ：2011
19世纪传奇的盗墓者和连环杀手的真实故事，“布克和海尔”是一对当时盗墓人，在进行了一段盗墓生意后，威廉·布克和威廉·海尔终于发现了一笔大买卖，他们在19世纪的爱丁堡，将盗取的尸体提供给当时的医学机构拿去解剖，以便进行科学研究，以此获得了巨大的商业利润。但是渐渐地，他们的行为愈发大胆，以至于杀害无辜者，将其尸体贩卖，最终，在17个受害人命丧黄泉后，他们也迎来了自己的末日。
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xf8k7
中文片名 ：福音歌手罗塞塔撒普
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英文片名 ：The Godmother of Rock & Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
英文系列名：
电视台 ：BBC
地区 ：英国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：约 59 分钟
版本 ：TV
发行时间 ：2011
During the 40s, 50s and 60s Sister Rosetta Tharpe played a highly significant role in the creation of rock & roll, inspiring musicians like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. She may not be a household name, but this flamboyant African-American gospel singing superstar, with her spectacular virtuosity on the newly-electrified guitar, was one of the most influential popular musicians of the 20th century.
Tharpe was born in 1915, close to the Mississippi in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. At the age of six she was taken by her evangelist mother Katie Bell to Chicago to join Roberts Temple, Church of God in Christ, where she developed her distinctive style of singing and guitar playing. At the age of 23 she left the church and went to New York to join the world of show business, signing with Decca Records. For the following 30 years she performed extensively to packed houses in the USA and subsequently Europe, before her death in 1973.
In 2008 the state governor of Pennsylvania declared that henceforth January 11th will be Sister Rosetta Tharpe Day in recognition of her remarkable musical legacy.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ymhqz
中文片名 ：哭的科学
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英文片名 ：For Crying Out Loud
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电视台 ：BBC
地区 ：英国
语言 ：英语
版本 ：TV
发行时间 ：2011
Jo Brand is outraged and appalled by the latest outburst of public crying. It is happening on X Factor, Who Do You Think You Are and even the politicans are at it. It would appear we are awash with tears. Jo is particularly baffled by this outpouring of weepiness as crying is something she rarely does.
In this documentary, Jo decides it’s time to get to the bottom of crying: why we do it, who does it and whether we have always done it. And once she discovers crying is in fact good for you, she has no choice but to see if she can actually make a handkerchief soggy too.
To find out more about crying she talks to friends Phill Jupitus, Shappi Khorsandi and Richard E Grant; interviews crying historians, psychologists and biochemists; and, in her quest to discover her own tears, visits Moorfields Eye Hospital to check her tear ducts are in good working order. She subjects herself to joining a class of crying drama students, discovers the world’s weirdest crybabies at the Loss Club and finally opens up to Princess Diana’s psychotherapist, Susie Orbach.
Having unpicked the watery world of crying, can Jo bring herself to actually shed a tear?
社會科學类纪录片，Channel 5 频道 2011 年出品。
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http://www.channel5.com/shows/steven-seagal-v-justin-lee-collins
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英文片名 ：Steven Seagal Vs Justin Lee Collins
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电视台 ：Channel 5
地区 ：英国
语言 ：英语
版本 ：TV
发行时间 ：2011
Steven Seagal might be best known for an action-movie career spanning three decades but, as Justin discovers in this documentary, the Michigan-born actor has many more strings to his bow. As well as starring in, directing and producing his own films, Seagal is an accomplished blues musician, environmentalist, and a committed Buddhist, animal rights activist and philanthropist.
Justin starts out with a trip to Vancouver, Canada, to visit Steven on the set of his new cop drama series. As well as getting a chance to observe the great man in action, Justin has his heart set on getting a part in the show. Next, the pair head off to Steven’s base in Phoenix, Arizona, where Justin gets to see how the icon really lives behind closed doors.
In Arizona, Justin is granted exclusive and unprecedented access to Steven and his home life. He gets to experience both the glamour of the superstar lifestyle and the day-to-day experience of being an off-duty megastar away from the prying lens of the paparazzi.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ykvgk
中文片名 ：塞巴斯蒂安. 福克斯带你走进英国文学
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英文片名 ：Faulks On Fiction
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电视台 ：BBC
地区 ：英国
语言 ：英语
版本 ：TV
发行时间 ：2011
Best-selling author Sebastian Faulks presents a major four part series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters
Bestselling author Sebastian Faulks presents a major four-part series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters. In this episode, Faulks looks at how the hero in literature and ideas of heroism have evolved over the last 300 years, from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe to Martin Amis’s John Self.
With contributions from Simon Armitage, Brian Keenan, Ruth Rendell, Robert Harris, Boris Johnson and Martin Amis.
• Robinson Crusoe, 1719, Daniel Defoe
• Tom Jones, 1749, Henry Fielding
• Vanity Fair (Becky Sharp), 1847, William Makepeace Thackeray
• Sherlock Holmes, 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• 1984 (Winston Smith), 1948, George Orwell
• Lucky Jim (Jim Dixon), 1954, Kingsley Amis
• Money (John Self), 1984, Martin Amis
In episode two of Sebastian Faulks’s series on the English novel, he looks at how literary lovers have taught us the truth about love, from Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy to Alan Hollinghurst’s Nick Guest.
With contributions from Helen Fielding, John Carey, Adam Phillips, Alain de Botton, Simon Schama, Rowan Pelling and Alan Hollinghurst.
• Pride and Prejudice (Mr Darcy), 1813, Jane Austen
• Wuthering Heights (Heathcliff), 1847, Emily Brontë
• Tess of the D’Urbevilles, 1891, Thomas Hardy
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lady Chatterley), 1928, D.H. Lawrence
• The End of the Affair (Maurice Bendrix), 1951, Graham Greene
• The Golden Notebook (Anna Wulf), 1962, Doris Lessing
• The Line of Beauty (Nick Guest), 2004, Alan Hollinghurst
Sebastian Faulks looks at how novelists from Jane Austen to Monica Ali have used snobs as their secret weapon.
With contributions from Tim Lott, Alain de Botton, John Carey and Monica Ali.
• Emma, 1815, Jane Austen
• Diary of a Nobody (Mr Charles Pooter), 1892, George & Weedon Grossmith
• Jeeves, 1915, P.G. Wodehouse
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961, Muriel Spark
• James Bond, 1953, Ian Fleming
• Brick Lane (Chanu), 2003, Monica Ali
• Great Expectations (Pip), 1860, Charles Dickens
Sebastian Faulks looks at villains and how they have evolved over the last three hundred years from theatrical rakes like Lovelace in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa to much more sinister yet much more ordinary characters like Barbara in Zoe Heller’s Notes on a Scandal.
• Clarissa (Lovelace), 1748, Samuel Richardson
• Oliver Twist (Fagin), 1838, Charles Dickens
• A Woman in White (Count Fosco), 1859, Wilkie Collins
• Gormenghast (Steerpike), 1950, Mervyn Peake
• Lord of the Flies (Jack), 1954, William Golding
• The Raj Quartet (Merrick), 1965, Paul Scott
• Notes on a Scandal (Barbara Covett), 2003, Zoë Heller
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中文片名 ：诽谤
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英文片名 ：Defamation
英文系列名：
电视台 ：Others
地区 ：以色列/丹麦/美国/奥地利
语言 ：希伯来语/英语
时长 ：约 91 分钟
版本 ：TV
发行时间 ：2009
This film will attempt to tackle contemporary anti-Semitism in different places around the world. It will put a face on the phenomenon, and show how it is expressed in its most banal, recurring form. Statistics show a rise in anti-Semitism. By backtracking the day-to-day incidents with the participation of both victims and perpetrators—the desecration of synagogues and cemeteries, and physical and verbal attacks on Jews—the film will try to capture the tension between how Jews perceive themselves and how they are perceived by non-Jews.
社会科学类纪录片，National Geographic 频道 2011 年出品。
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http://natgeotv.com.au/tv/secret-service-files/
中文片名 ：特勤局档案
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英文片名 ：Secret Service Files
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电视台 ：National Geographic
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英語
时间 ：约 60 分钟
版本 ：TV
发行时间 ：2011
Join the Secret Service in Colombia as teams prepares for a massive international manhunt. For the first time, NGC cameras are allowed to follow them throughout the planning, surveillance work and informant meetings, all culminating in a dangerous raid on a pair of master counterfeiters.
The first episode deals with counterfeit money from Latin America — the country that is known for making the most fake currency is Colombia. The Secret Service counterfeit team is involved in tracking down those responsible for falsifying American currency. Surprisingly, the amount of fake U.S. money that is printed each year is more than $25 million. In this episode, the viewer is able to join the Secret Service on a manhunt to track down these criminals.
The next episode follows agents in New York City as they track down criminals who try to get money through an electronic device. The viewer gets to see actual sting operations take place and feel the satisfaction of a thief getting caught with his “hand in the cookie jar.” As a voice-over says, “The counterfeit team must be ready for anything.”
Next, the viewer is taken to Miami and gets to listen to an interview of a Secret Service officer who goes undercover in the electronics section of Target. The counterfeit team follows the trail of money and successfully arrests the culprit by using a range of impressive security devices, such as laptop cameras and high tech ear microphones.
The last episode follows the Secret Service as it protects foreign dignitaries at the General Assembly meeting at the United Nations. Due to the amount of work it takes to protect 131 dignitaries, more than 6,000 law enforcement officers are involved in the process. Because it is in New York, the United Nations is a difficult place to protect, with several vulnerabilities that can be penetrated by criminals. The Secret Service takes any threat seriously and prepares for this event for several weeks. The viewer gets to watch as the leaders of Iran and Pakistan arrive in America and the things that have to be done to ensure their safety.
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http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/public-speaking/index.html
中文片名 ：公众演讲
中文系列名：
英文片名 ：Public Speaking
英文系列名：
电视台 ：HBO
地区 ：美国
导演 ：Martin Scorsese
语言 ：英语
时长 ：81 min
版本 ：DVD
IMDB链接 ：http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1734477/
发行时间 ：2010
Wise, brilliant, and funny, Fran Lebowitz hit the New York literary scene in the early ’70s when Andy Warhol hired the unknown scribe to write a column for Interview magazine. Today, she’s an acclaimed author with legions of fans who adore her acerbic wit. Public Speaking captures the author in conversation at New York’s Waverly Inn, in an onstage discussion with longtime friend and celebrated writer Toni Morrison, and on the streets of New York City. Lebowitz offers insights on timely issues such as art, gender, race, and gay rights, as well as her pet peeves, including celebrity culture, smoking bans, tourists, and strollers.
Directed by Oscar winner Martin Scorsese (in the inimitable and energetic style of his early documentaries Italianamerican and American Boy), this feature-length documentary spotlights Lebowitz’s experiences and sardonic worldview.
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应用科学类纪录片，Others 频道 ???? 年出品，是 Oth Vertical City 系列其中之一。
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http://skyarts.sky.com/vertical-city
中文片名 ：垂直城市 第二季
中文系列名：垂直城市
英文片名 ：Vertical City Season 2
英文系列名：Oth Vertical City
电视台 ：Others
地区 ：英国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：约 40 分钟/集
版本 ：TV
发行时间 ：????
Vertical City带领观众们走进世界上最有标志性的摩天大楼，从一个全新的角度看看这些野心与财富的标志。建筑专家查理勒克斯顿、凯斯凯维尼、马特伯曼将观众参观纽约、芝加哥、墨尔本以及瑞典等地的高楼，并探索这些高楼背后的权利、政治和设计故事。
There are a lot of skyscrapers out there - but just a handful have truly shaped architecture. The iconic 375 Park Avenue in New York, built in 1958 by the king of Modernist design Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, changed skyscraper design forever. As the world’s most influential and copied tower, it has inspired the square glass blocks of every global skyline. But behind its revolutionary glass façade lies a story of how a skyscraper that couldn’t afford to be built, got built – and how its creator finally managed to realise his 40 year architectural dream.
As the tallest residential skyscraper in the UK, Manchester’s distinctive Beetham Tower is turning heads – and dividing opinion. Heading up a new generation of skyscrapers that are regenerating Britain’s post-industrial cities, Beetham is at the heart of a battle between traditionalists and modernists - because despite producing some of the world’s leading high-rise architects like Richard Rogers and Norman Foster, Britain isn’t exactly enamoured with skyscrapers – including its future king, Prince Charles.
Taiwan wanted to make the world sit up and notice it – so it built the planet’s tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, in its capital city. An architectural meeting of East meets West, Taiwan’s biggest global advertising board and symbol of achievement was a defiant gesture towards its neighbouring superpower, and a calculated quest for Taiwanese commercial attention proving that in modern times, the supertall building is more than just the corporation HQ of the past. But does having the tag of the tallest guarantee success? And why isn’t there a host of other skyscrapers in this city like its competitor over the water, Shanghai?
With the highest roof on earth, the sleek Shanghai World Finance Center stands in the city that has overtaken New York and Chicago as skyscraper capital of the world. Setting the standard for a new generation of supertall skyscrapers, this Japanese-developed tower, built on Chinese land, also symbolises a new era in relations between the two previously hostile countries after Japan’s violent invasion of China in the 1930s. This troubled history meant that every step of the skyscraper’s symbolism and design had to be handled with immense sensitivity - but that didn’t stop anti-Japanese sentiment threatening its completion.
In the late 1980s the Malaysian government decided to build a skyscraper so unprecedented in size and so ambitious that it sought to overtake Chicago’s Sears Tower as the tallest building in the world. The result – the elaborately curved Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur – achieved both goals. But for Cesar Pelli, the Western architect charged with the task of creating this national symbol that both respected the past and looked forward to the 21st century, it would be an enormous design challenge on a rocky and unchartered road – and getting the towers built in Malaysia would prove almost impossible.
Behind the glistening façade of Boston’s John Hancock Tower lies one of the most embarrassing moments in architectural history. The insurance company wanted to express their corporate might by building a modernist skyscraper in the heart of Boston’s historic core, threatening to pull their financial weight out of the city if they faced opposition. Little did they know that this act of arrogance would haunt them forever. Their dream tower turned into their worst nightmare and what followed is one of the most unbelievable tales in architectural history, involving collapsing foundations, windows falling out and a skyscraper that was likely to topple over.
Stunning skylines are fuelled by money – and Hong Kong has one of the most stunning in the world. With a lack of land on the island, the only way is up. The most prized – and expensive - plot is the financial district of Central where one skyscraper towers above the rest, star of Batman movies and gleaming white pillar of capitalism, 2 International Finance Center. To ensure the developers made a healthy return on their investment, 2IFC’s architects had to not just make the tower look good to lure high paying tenants – but ensure that literally every inch of the skyscraper’s design paid back.
应用科学类纪录片，Others 频道 ???? 年出品，是 Oth Vertical City 系列其中之一。
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http://skyarts.sky.com/vertical-city
中文片名 ：垂直城市 第一季
中文系列名：垂直城市
英文片名 ：Vertical City Season 1
英文系列名：Oth Vertical City
电视台 ：Others
地区 ：英国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：约 40 分钟/集
版本 ：TV
发行时间 ：????
Vertical City带领观众们走进世界上最有标志性的摩天大楼，从一个全新的角度看看这些野心与财富的标志。建筑专家查理勒克斯顿、凯斯凯维尼、马特伯曼将观众参观纽约、芝加哥、墨尔本以及瑞典等地的高楼，并探索这些高楼背后的权利、政治和设计故事。
Still the tallest tower in the US – as well as the tallest in the world for 25 years – the $175million Sears Tower broke boundaries in not only height but design and construction. But building the tallest building in the world brings its own logistical headaches – and the crippling cost of funding an iconic tower can take its toll…
Every major city has a symbolic piece of architecture that projects its image to the world. But what happens when a city loses not only its trademark industry but its trademark icon? This is exactly the problem that faced the city of Malmo in Sweden – but it came up with the perfect way to reinvent itself. But daring design always courts controversy – and the whole project nearly ended in disaster…
On 11 September 2001, this historic cityscape of Manhattan became forever linked with one event that forced architects to rethink. 7 World Trade Center, the first building to be constructed on Ground Zero, has taken skyscraper safety to new levels – but overlooking a plot of land that symbolises the risk of building tall, do those who work in it really feel safe?
The skyscraper is a symbol of aspiration and power – and an environmentally unsound energy guzzling monster. But in 1997 British superarchitect Norman Foster created a contradiction in terms – the world’s first ecological tower and in doing so, The Commerzbank has changed the construction of office buildings forever. But was going green the result of the corporate world being responsible – or just a big fat PR exercise?
We go up top Down Under to the tallest residential building in the world – the 300m Eureka Tower, the most exclusive address in the Southern Hemisphere. But is living the high life destroying our traditional city communities? Are these Vertical Villages changing the way we live forever?
The strongest building on Earth, Torre Mayor is constructed to withstand earthquakes that would obliterate the average skyscraper. Built in the wake of Mexico City’s most devastating earthquake in 1985, this monument to engineering has become a haven of safety in one of the world’s most active seismic zones. But can the ever growing height of skyscrapers compete with typhoons and earthquakes? Can man really conquer nature?
The ‘Miami of the Southern Hemisphere’, Surfer’s Paradise, has a growing reputation as the resort of choice for the rich and famous, and the skyline is growing too with the massive Q1 Tower dominating the landscape. But how has this uber-skyscraper affected the paradise? Is it the jewel in the crown of one of the world’s most exclusive resorts - or the nail in the coffin of the chilled vibe and community spirit that makes the Gold Coast unique?
You’re a new developer, you want to build a tower in a bleak part of town and you’ve got to fill half the building before you get planning permission. What do you do? Get in a Superstar Architect to ensure your skyscraper gets noticed and gets headlines. Cesar Pelli waved his magic design wand over the Cira Center and made it stand apart from the crowd. But are celebrity architects over paid and over hyped? And does their huge pay cheque pay back?
Even before the modern skyscraper, the super tall building has been a source of innovation and fierce competition – and no time was the fight for height fiercer than in the late 18th century when cathedrals across Europe competed to make their spires the tallest. Cologne was the tallest building in the world for 4 years – but where did the money for these religious super spires come from? And just how fierce – and dirty - did the fight become?
In 1991 One Canada Square, the UK’s tallest skyscraper, changed the London skyline. But the Cesar Pelli designed icon wasn’t in the heart of the capital. Instead the developers had taken a billion-dollar gamble on creating an international financial centre in the desolate docklands of the City’s East End. But when the world property market collapsed just after completion, the developers went bankrupt and a large part of the tower lay in darkness…
What is striking about the luxury residential block of Moscow’s Triumph Palace is not so much it’s height but the fact that it resurrects the city’s turbulent political past. In the 1940s Josef Stalin commissioned seven tall towers to compete with the New York skyscrapers. The ‘Seven Sisters’ were created to inspire Russian citizens to celebrate the strength and glory of the communist state. We investigate the design and political genesis of these towers and examines why an eighth sister has been added in 21st century capitalist Moscow.
Moscow has become Europe’s skyscraper capital, with the Naberezhnaya Tower holding the title of the continent’s tallest building and more in the pipeline that are pushing the parameters of height and design. They represent a new era for the city, one in which Moscow can finally compete with the other major financial centres of the world - a modern high rise Moscow that was once dreamt of decades ago by the city’s early undiscovered skyscraper visionary.
The John Hancock Center in Chicago is one of the most influential skyscrapers of the twentieth century. When completed in 1969 this was the tallest tower in the world outside New York City and is still the most famous structural expressionist style building in high rise architecture. By using new technologies like the computer and developments in steel, the tower’s designers revolutionised the way skyscrapers were built and created a true masterpiece of engineering. But cutting edge construction always courts controversy – and despite being the birthplace of skyscrapers, Chicago wasn’t convinced it wanted this enormous dark hulk on its skyline.
1180Peachtree is a striking icon on the Atlanta skyline, its huge fins making it distinct from other skyscrapers in the city. But it’s not all about good looks - 1180 is creating a new era for the city’s towers. Back in the 1980s, when crime and racial tension were rife in the city, architects designed skyscrapers that existed independently of street life, connecting to parking and shopping malls with skybridges that made sidewalks completely redundant. 1180 is opening its doors to the streets and the public, helping to breathe life back into the street culture of this once lifeless city.
Created in 1990 by world renowned architect IM Pei, the Bank of China in Hong Kong put Asia on the skyscraper map and stands like a diamond amongst the island’s forest of towers. But behind the architecture lies a tall political tale – one of a global superpower marking its territory. China wanted the world to know that Hong Kong would soon be under its rule – and used this skyscraper to prove it. But with only a small budget to make a big statement, building this tower wasn’t easy –especially when its fiercest rival had built the most expensive tower in the world literally next door.