At its conference this August, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) will make a decision that could see Pluto lose its status as a planet.
For the first time, the organisation will be officially defining the word "planet", and it is causing much debate in the world of astronomy.
There is only one thing that everyone seems to agree on: there are no longer nine planets in t...
Clouds of alien life forms are sweeping through outer space and infecting planets with life – it may not be as far-fetched as it sounds. The idea that life on Earth came from another planet has been around as a modern scientific theory since the 1960s when it was proposed by Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe. At the time they were ridiculed for their idea – known as pansper...
A Quest for the Magical Places That Inspired The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is the most popular work of fiction ever created. It is a tale of epic proportions held together by its unforgettable setting, Middle Earth. The great trilogy introduced the world to Gandalf, Frodo and Aragorn, but arguably the book's true star does not utter a single word....
Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want to deal with the situation in a civilized way, by remaining friends with Martin. Meanwhile Martin tries to keep his mistress, Georgie Hands, a secret, but Palmer's sister, Honor K...
A national service NCO (David Warner) who comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
A minor Soviet official, on secondment in London, begins to break the rules in the hope of being sent back to Russia, and becomes entangled emotionally with a young woman whom he accompanies to a society wedding.
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringin...
A mini-series made up of four plays, each showing Benjamin Franklin at a different stage in his life. In each episode, Franklin is played by a different actor.
这是一部讲述贝蒂戴维斯的纪录片。贝蒂戴维斯是一位好莱坞黄金时代的极有天赋的性格演员，真正的演技派，她塑造了很多令人过目难忘的经典角色，她的演技力量总是宛若活火山一般不断爆发，令人感到由衷的震撼。
第十二届上海电视节“白玉兰奖”最佳自然类纪录片获奖节目： 《树女皇》
最佳自然类纪录片得主的中心人物毫无疑问，就是一棵树。但树女皇不是一棵普通的树，她是一个小生态链中的“女家长”。通过精妙绝伦的拍摄，动人的音乐，全面深入的剖析和研究，以及这对成就非凡的拍摄者全身心地投入，影片生动地为我们展现出这棵生长在非洲的无花果树生命轮回的故事。
一棵无花果树本身就是一个小小的生态圈，有生，有死，有性，有争斗。这些元素为这部影片增加了剧情片的特质：蜜蜂抢占犀鸟巢穴的段落充满悬念和暴力；有猴子出现的地方是喜剧；花蚂蚱和螳螂的正面遭遇是动作片；小黄蜂在显微镜头前交配，生殖器官毕现，动作温柔缓慢；一棵100岁的无花果树，它的果实被大象吃掉，粪便中没被消化掉的种子会在几十公里以外生根发芽，生命在延续，这又象史诗。
