Giant Pandas are critically endangered and the most precious babies in the world. They are animal royalty. Steve Leonard has been a vet for over 20 years but has never seen a panda. That’s about to change. Travelling over 5000 miles to China he goes behind the scenes of three remarkable panda reserves to watch the cutest babies on the planet grow up. Granted exclusive access,...
The Mona Lisa: bewitching, seductive, world-famous. In the minds of millions she’s the ultimate work of art. Yet behind the enigmatic smile she remains a mystery, fuelling endless speculation and theories. But is the world’s most famous painting finally giving up its secrets? Presented by Andrew Graham Dixon, this landmark film will use new evidence to investigate the truth beh...
Snow Chick - A Penguin's Tale Documentary narrated by Kate Winslet, telling the intimate story of an emperor penguin chick's first precarious months on the ice, growing up in the world's most extreme nursery.
30 years Domino's Pizza has been in the UK. Documentary style is done similar to "super factory".
自从人类文明伊始酒精就被用作一种药物,但是关于酒精的科学似乎含糊不清而且充满了矛盾。我们对市售药品及其疗效相对比较熟悉,但是对其作用原理及对人体的影响却所知甚少。我们将调查有关酒精的证据,很多人认为每天适度饮酒对我们的身体健康不会产生太大影响,许多人认为每天少量饮酒其实对人体健康是有益的。而我们很多人喝酒不是这样,不是每天少量饮酒而是平时几乎滴酒不沾,到周末的时候才豪饮两三次;或者是邀上好友共进晚餐喝大量的葡萄酒;或者喝些鸡尾酒或烈酒。豪饮的危害到底有多大呢?我们马上来揭晓答案…
Birds of paradise are one of David Attenborough's lifelong passions. He was the first to film many of their beautiful and often bizarre displays, and over his lifetime he has tracked them all over the jungles of New Guinea. In this very personal film, he uncovers the remarkable story of how these 'birds from paradise' have captivated explorers, naturalists, artists, film-makers...
非处方药看起来触手可及,可以在药店和便利店随意买到,但这些包装靓丽、价格不菲的药真的有用吗?声称能缓解不同部位疼痛的止痛药、“多合一”疗效的感冒药、被很多人信赖的维生素药丸,对于这些药你又了解多少呢?该片的主持人克里斯身为一名医生,对这些非处方药持怀疑态度,他将用科学的方法带我们去探寻药箱里的秘密。在这里你会发现:在家自制的蜂蜜柠檬糖浆,比药店里的咳嗽糖浆靠谱得多;当缓解肌肉疼痛该冷敷热敷的观点争论不休时,泡个澡或许更有用……这里还有更多省钱又健康的秘密。
本部大开眼界的记录片透过英国超级富豪家庭中最年轻成员的眼睛,对他们的生活进行了窥视。本部纪录片讲述的是德鲁伊特–巴罗斯,英国众所周知的第一对同性恋父母的故事,以及他们如何抚育那些拥有世人梦想财富的孩子们。为了庆祝16岁生日聚会而花费3万英镑对于这个家庭来说不值一提。我们将关注这个家庭如何抚养那些拥有一切却并不满足的青少年,并对他们面对社会媒体不近人情的报导带来的压力进行严肃讨论,这些报导让他们的处境变得更加糟糕,毕竟在这个充斥着平等论调的空前氛围下,他们过着别人所期盼的生活。
忘掉大爆炸吧!所有关于宇宙诞生的赞誉都给了它,而实际上大爆炸的即刻结果是一片漆黑和虚无。那时的宇宙没有恒星,没有星系,只有一团气体;这是宇宙历史上的黑暗时代。然而,在这样的状态持续了一亿年之后,一个真正的剧变时刻来临了。这是第一批恒星形成的时刻,宇宙第一次被点亮的时刻,宇宙的最初结构和生命的第一批原料诞生的时刻。寰宇初曦,创世纪的真正时刻。
With the help of a team of experts and the latest in 3D scanning technology, Alexander Armstrong, along with Dr Michael Scott, explores the hidden underground treasures that made Rome the powerhouse of the ancient world. In his favourite city, he uncovers a lost subterranean world that helped build and run the world's first metropolis and its empire. From the secret underground...
作为达尔文进化论的灵感来源,加拉帕戈斯群岛可以说是一座天然的图书馆。这里就像一个地质学上的传送带,见证了许许多多物种的诞生与灭绝。本节目用开拓性的全新视觉效果,结合令人震撼的摄影技术,探究了加拉帕戈斯群岛上多种多样的物种,揭示了这座群岛不为人知的一面。随着历史变迁,西部的群岛慢慢浮出海平面,开始孕育新生命.
宇宙中四分之一的物质仍处于未知的状态。我们知道它们对天空的影响,但是从未亲眼目睹,也无从解释。这种神秘的东西叫做暗物质。科学家们希望他们能确定暗物质的成分,并借此找到宇宙谜团中的关键物质,同时能够解开粒子物理学中标准模型的一些问题。从瑞士的欧洲核研究组织到智利的望远镜,《地平线》见到了一些科学家,他们试图解决宇宙中最大的谜题,并提出问题,研究的成败对物理学的未来意味着什么。
1 波普艺术(POP)字面意思就是流行艺术.和流行音乐/文化含义一样,意义其实也类似. 2 本片采访POP一堆教父级别的人物.是其他艺术运动纪录片从未有过的. 3 POP用通俗的表达方法打掉了看似高雅的抽象现代艺术. 前者让大众接受, 后者更多只是个人无法理解的表现. 4 POP形式上类似于推销和宣传,而本质上是使用同样手段反宣传反推销. 5 POP的高潮在50年代的纽约,而21世纪的热点,甚至代表人物在中国.
Children in Gaza and across the border in Israel have lived through three major conflicts in six years. In the summer of 2014, more than 500 children were killed in a 51-day war, all but one of them Palestinian. Almost every child in Gaza lost a loved one. More than a third were left traumatised. On the Israeli border, children lived in constant fear of rocket attacks and under...
New planets are now being discovered outside our solar system on a regular basis, and these strange new worlds are forcing scientists to rewrite the history of our own solar system. Far from a simple story of stable orbits, the creation of our solar system is a tale of hellfire, chaos and planetary pinball. It's a miracle our Earth is here at all.
The team investigate the use of modern medical technology to scan Egyptian animal mummies from museums across the world. By creating 3-D images of their content, experts are discovering the truth about the strange role animals played in ancient Egyptian belief. This episode of Horizon meets the scientists working in Egypt who are exploring the ancient underground catacombs wher...
In 2014, the International Space Station had to move three times to avoid lethal chunks of space debris and there is an increasing problem of satellites mysteriously breaking down. With first-hand accounts from astronauts and experts, Horizon reveals the scale of the problem of space junk. Our planet is surrounded by hundreds of millions of pieces of junk moving at 17,000 miles...