TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

一个美国狙击手查理·斯诺在执行任务时杀死了一个东欧军火商人的兄弟，由此惹下杀身大祸。他发现自己时刻处于敌人的监视下。军火商不但把枪口瞄准了查理，还开始展开了一系列针对查理家人的报复。而查理的身上也被对方暗中放置了高科技定位追踪器，生命安全受到威胁。于是，查理和黑人女助手开始了虎口脱险的大逃亡以及保护家人的历程。

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invention and its early success, and whose genius, friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways. This is the story of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.

后核战争剧上一小群幸存者中心现在构成了科幻电影的整个流派。所有这些，在一些这样或那样，可以从1951年中五人应对的可能性追溯到这一开创性的电影，他们是只有人类离开地球上活着。