斯坦利·库布里克的电影上的遗产标志不能被测量。他在他的领域的巨人，他的伟大作品类似艺术的原始作品，由学生和大师一样的研究，都在寻找答案，他们的制造商是出了名沉默寡言给。虽然他是最细致的电影制片人曾经生活中，听到库布里克自己的话的机会是一个罕见的，直到现在。

《2001：太空漫游》花絮

Scene Index：
1. Introduction
2. Early life
3. Photography
4. Day of the Fight
这是一部描写电影大师斯坦利·库布里克生平的记录片……
“斯坦利·库布里克是一个绝顶天才的混蛋”——道格拉斯在《斯巴达克斯》首映式上对记者这么说。这句话也许是最能恰如其分地形容这位电影大师的最精辟的语言了。

1999年，库布里克去世。在他去世前没有几天，他刚刚完成了汤姆·克鲁斯和尼克·基德曼出演的伦理片《大开眼界》。17天后，在奥斯卡金像奖的颁奖晚会上，斯蒂文·斯皮尔伯格主持放映了一段3分钟长的库布里克电影集锦，以肯定库布里克对电影艺术的贡献以及表示大众和学院对其逝世的哀悼。在这之后，斯皮尔伯格接手了库布里克编剧并完成分镜头脚本绘制工作的《人工智能》的拍摄。大师的精神和理念，就这么被继承了下来。

《斯坦利·库布里克的电影人生》全方位地回顾了库布里克整个电影生涯，，并由汤姆·克鲁斯担任解说。库布里克一生只拍摄了18部影片，这和他所获得的荣誉似乎有些不相称，但是这也从一个侧面反映出库布里克是一个完美主义者。《斯坦利·库布里克的电影人生》就仔细分析了这18部影片，并以此为线索，为我们展示出了大师创作过程。

《2001太空漫游》的花絮。开场居然是詹姆斯·卡梅隆主持，他提到“直到今天，《2001：太空漫游》仍是不朽的科幻片杰作，随着电影规模越来越大，它提醒我们，在壮观的特殊效果背后，构思仍是最重要的”。
库布里克找了一堆科学界的专业顾问和技师来为这个片子做准备，连NASA造太空飞船的图纸都搞到了，好多被请来的人以为半年多拍摄工作就能搞定，结果一待就是三年，精细程度可见一斑。影片中让笔飘浮在半空中是通过将笔用双面胶贴在玻璃上，然后移动旋转玻璃制造出的效果，仔细看修复版的DVD，依稀可见玻璃的反光。

In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick showed us what the future might look like. How true was his vision? This documentary employs interviews with filmmakers, screenwriters and authors - including Arthur C. Clarke - to delve deep into the heart of the film's imagined future and determine the extent to which Kubrick and Clarke's vision predicted a world of fantasy - or today's reality.

His novel, filmed as 2001: A Space Odyssey, won Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick cult status. He is listened to by the United Nations, US Congress, Microsoft, and NASA. In a rare interview from his tropical paradise home in Sri Lanka, he talks about his life, from his upbringing in rural Somerset to the writing of his latest novel, 3001: The Final Odyssey.

從地球架設電梯直達太空的概念並不新鮮，但從來沒有人完成過。而你我或許不知道，現正有許多人在建造天梯。有些人想解決能源危機，有些人想要取得太陽系的物質，有些人只是想要前往太空，並且凝視他們的家鄉——地球。對於他們而言，天梯不僅僅是科幻故事，更是正在發生的生活情節。究竟這是拯救地球？還是完成科學家個人幻想？亦或是在國際太空競賽上佔領先機？

The masterminds of science explore the Big Bang, Black Holes, and the search for extraterrestrial life.
In a studio setting, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (who joins them via satellite) discuss the Big Bang theory, God, our existence as well as the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the United States, France and China. At first it seems natural but after interviews by scientists and eyewitness seems to suggest that it is not. Three more meteors are coming and the various Earth governments combine forces to stop them.

An examination of the evidence surrounding the events of September 11, 2001 that took the lives of thousands of innocent victims, and left our entire planet fundamentally changed. The examination follows the events, evidence, data, and science onward to the use of Directed Energy Weapons and holograms.