2020年1月，武汉，这座拥有一千多万人口的超级大城市，受新型冠状病毒的袭扰，牵挂着全国人民的心。时值农历新年，无论对于武汉，还是全中国而言，抗击疫情都是一场没有硝烟的战争。 在这个过程中，这座城市，将如何面对突如其来的疫情？每位普通市民，又将经历怎样的艰难历程？他们将如何守护自己的生命与家园？ 作为土生土长的武汉人，留守城中的“蜘蛛猴面包”等影像工作者、爱好者，亲眼见证并记录着武汉在这段疫情危机下不寻常的时光。在他们的镜头中，城市街道空旷，商场、餐厅歇业，但武汉人的生活却还在有条不紊的进行着。医护人员、社区、超市、加油站的工作人员等等都在坚守岗位，保障着城市的正常运转。 “武汉日记2020”记录下了这座城市最特殊的时刻，更重要的是，让所有人看到此刻真实的武汉人，团结一心、积极面对、不必恐慌、共同战“疫”。

1998年12月至1999年4月，年过七旬的阿涅斯·瓦尔达带着数码摄像机在法国的城市和乡村“闲逛”的过程中，拍摄了一些关于当今时代法国拾荒者们的影像：流浪汉和生活贫困的人为维持生计拣拾各种生活必需品，艺术家们从废铜烂铁堆里寻找创造艺术作品的原料，喜欢拾荒的人的动机是出于反对浪费的品德。除了拾荒，影片还有一条游离于主线之外的副线，表现了一些表面看来与拾荒毫不相干、其实关系密切的人和事，比如采访一位兼做心理医生的葡萄园主，与发明电影的先驱者之一马莱的后代谈论电影问题。此外，本片还是一幅影片作者的自画像，瓦尔达不时从镜头后面走到镜头前面，即使当她在镜头后面时也有意地适度表现自己，而且有些镜头是她亲自拍摄的。
这部受19世纪法国画家米勒的名画《拾穗者》启发而拍摄的纪录片，描绘了法国当今时代的拾荒者形象。在瓦尔达看来，形形色色的拾荒者大致分为三类：“有些人拾荒是因为他们被生活所迫，有些人拾荒是因为他们是艺术家，有些人拾荒是因为他们喜欢拾荒。”本片的完整片名是“拾荒者们和女拾荒者”，其中“女拾荒者”是指瓦尔达本人。影片中的所有人都在拾荒，瓦尔达本人也是拾荒，她在拣拾被人遗忘的记忆。本片的艺术成就不仅表现在瓦尔达创作了一部以第一人称叙事的实验性数码纪录片，而且表现在影片作者巧妙地把握了“唯我”与“主观”以及电影作者的“自我”与被拍摄的社会现实中的“别人”之间的细微界限。这部影片是用DV拍摄的，然后扩转成35毫米电影胶片发行，曾经在30个月的时间里获得过30个奖。(

23 episode documentary, each focusing on one distinguished building and its architect, from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Season 1
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Season 1, Episode 1: Das Bauhaus in Dessau
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Walter Gropius What: Staatliches Bauhaus, architecture school Where: Dessau, Germany.
Season 1, Episode 2: Die Architekurfakultät Porto
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Álvaro Siza What: Porto's Faculty of Architecture Where: Porto, Portugal
Season 1, Episode 3: Das Familistère von Guise
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Jean-Baptiste Godin What: The Familistère, a community settlement Where: Guise, France
Season 1, Episode 4: Nemausus 1 - Sozialer Wohnungsbau der 80er Jahre
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Jean Nouvel What: Social housing complex Where: Nîmes, France
Season 1, Episode 5: Das Centre Georges Pompidou
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini What: Centre Georges Pompidou, cultural complex Where: Paris, France
Season 1, Episode 6: Die Postsparkasse Wien
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Otto Wagner What: Post Office Savings Bank Where: Vienna, Austria
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Season 2
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Season 2, Episode 1: Das Villa Dall'Ava
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Rem Koolhaas; What: Villa Dall'Ava, a single-family house; Where: Paris, France
Season 2, Episode 2: Das Johnson-Verwaltungsgebäude
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Frank Lloyd Wright; What: Johnson Wax's headquarters; Where: Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Season 2, Episode 3: Die Galleria Umberto I
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Emanuele Rocco; What: A commercial gallery; Where: Naples, Italy
Season 2, Episode 4: Satolas TGV - Der Bahnhof auf dem Land
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Santiago Calatrava; What: TGV station; Where: Lyon, France
Season 2, Episode 5: Die Felsentherme von Vals
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Peter Zumthor; What: Thermal baths; Where: Vals, Switzerland
Season 2, Episode 6: Die Pariser Kunsthochschule
Original Air Date: 2001
Who: Auguste Perret; What: Fine Art School; Where: Paris, France
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Season 3
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Season 3, Episode 1: Das jüdische Museum in Berlin
Original Air Date: 2003
Who: Daniel Libeskind; What: Jewish history Museum; Where: Berlin, Germany
Season 3, Episode 2: Die Pariser Opéra Garnier
Original Air Date: 2003
Who: Charles Garnier; What: Opera House; Where: Paris, France
Season 3, Episode 3: Das Kloster La Tourette
Original Air Date: 2003
Who: Le Corbusier; What: Dominican priory; Where: Lyon, France
Season 3, Episode 4: Die Casa Mila
Original Air Date: 2003
Who: Antoni Gaudí; What: Residential/touristic building; Where: Barcelona, Spain
Season 3, Episode 5: Auditorium Building
Original Air Date: 2003
Who: Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan; What: Home of the Roosevelt University; Where: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Season 3, Episode 6: Das Gemeindezentrum von Säynätsalo
Original Air Date: 2003
Who: Alvar Aalto; What: Municipal Center / Town Hall; Where: Säynätsalo, Finland
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Season 4
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Season 4, Episode 1: Die Saline von Arc-et-Senans
Original Air Date: 2005
Who: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux; What: Saltworks' buildings; Where: Besançon, France
Season 4, Episode 2: Das Glashaus
Original Air Date: 2005
Who: Phillip Johnson; What: Private House; Where: New Canaan, Connecticut, USA
Season 4, Episode 3: Bilbao Guggenheim Museum
Original Air Date: 2005
Who: Frank Gehry; What: Modern and contemporary art museum; Where: Bilbao, Spain
Season 4, Episode 4: Das Haus von Jean Prouvé
Original Air Date: 2005
Who: Jean Prouvé; What: Prefab house; Where: Presles, France
Season 4, Episode 5: Die Sendaï-Mediathek
Original Air Date: 2005
Who: Toyo Ito; What: Mediatheque; Where: Sendaï, Japan
Season 4, Episode 6: Die Abtei Sainte Foy de Conques
Original Air Date: 2005
Who: Prosper Merimée; What: Church; Where: Conques, France

《平衡》是近几年来国内比较优秀的纪录片，一部现实主义作品，作者彭辉用了3年时间来记录，又浓缩在70分钟内播出，使大家感受到了时间空间和事件的震撼力，这是时空张力和对客观再现的综合表现。此片获得中国电视纪录片的最高奖项：金鹰奖最佳长篇纪录片奖。
全片没有一句解说词，这在其他纪录片中是不多见的。而事实上，在这部纪录片中，解说词也是多余的。开头为我们展现了广袤的青藏高原，接着是巍巍的昆仑山脉，最后出现在屏幕上的是“可可西里”无人区，也就是本片拍摄地点。奔跑着的藏羚羊，滑翔着的斑头雁，寥寥几笔为观众点出了这个世界第三大无人区，野生动物的天堂，更是藏羚羊家园的“可可西里”。以此作为之后片中表现“西部野牦牛队” 保护藏羚羊及其他种种问题设下铺垫。没有多余的画面与解释，简洁有力而大气。
片中使用了少量音乐，大多是自然音响。风声贯穿全片，在平均海拔5000米的高原上，即便用了防风罩，依然抵不住肆虐的大风，真实直接地表现了西部野牦牛队的工作环境。在环保主义者杨欣过生日片段中，大家为他学唱生日歌也是自然音响之一，毫不粉饰的音响带来了体现情感的最佳效果。
主人公扎巴多杰坐在卓乃湖前对着镜头讲述。他让我们知道了“索南达杰”，西部工委第一任队长，同18名盗猎者搏斗而牺牲。因此，扎巴多杰自愿请命成为“西部野牦牛队”队长，来到可可西里进行艰苦的工作。片中引用了故事片《索南达杰》的片断，把现实中索南达杰牺牲时，冻僵的躯体仍保持着握枪姿势的情形同演员再现的情形一同展现给观众，带来更大的震撼。这也是片中的一个亮点，对观众来说，会牢牢记住这一细节。
除此之外，片中还引用了一些资料，例如，偷拍的藏羚羊绒围巾交易现场、5000美金一条、800公斤羊绒来自中国等数据增强了作品的表现力，强调了“反盗猎”的必要性。也突出“平衡”这一主题。
导演彭辉也是幸运的，因为扎巴多杰本人就是个具有相当震撼力的人物，并且善于表达，他的个人魅力足以打动每个人。在镜头前，他毫不掩饰，非常直接自然地表达一切，对盗猎者强烈的愤慨，对政府某些官员的指责，对自己工作的执着。很多信息是通过扎巴多杰的表述传达给观众，这是此片很重要的一个构成部分。

梅尔文·布拉格 (Melvyn Bragg) 带你走遍大不列颠，了解英语的冒险历程——公元前500年的一门小众日耳曼方言，到底是如何一步步成长为当今毋庸置疑的世界语言。他将根据不同词语被引进英语的大致时期来向我们讲解它们的出处和拼写。
1、语言的诞生 (Birth of a Language)
2、不登大雅之堂 (English Goes Underground)
3、圣经语言之争 (The Battle for the Language of the Bible)
4、此世、此国、此英 (This Earth, This Realm, This England)
5、英语在美洲 (English in America)
6、谈吐得体 (Speaking Proper)
7、帝国的语言 (The Language of Empire)
8、南腔北调皆英语 (Many Tongues Called English, One World Language)

本部描写摇滚史上最伟大音乐家之一约翰·温斯顿·列侬的纪录片《约翰列侬的理想世界》，以超过240小时的电影及录影片段，及穿插其中的36首经典名曲，讲述着这位摇滚乐坛有史以来最富传奇色彩的灵魂人物。
影片收录了多段未被公开的私人视频片段，扑捉记录下列侬这位在音乐世界中狂放不羁才华横溢的天才，在生活中的多重侧面。这些精彩珍贵的视频镜头在36首传唱度极高的经典歌曲中，道出了列侬这位乐坛巨匠背后鲜为人知的故事。

Alexander Sokurov used five television cameras to film Mozart’s Requiem Mass, which the Director himself had staged in the small Philharmonic Hall in Saint Petersburg in 2004.
The main characteristic of the performance is that the chorus isn’t still, it moves around on the stage. The movements in space aren’t specified in the script; sometimes the chorus moves around chaotically, sometimes they come together on the proscenium, sometimes they gather at the back of the stage. In the same way, the soloists move around freely. Thanks to the lighting, these movements create a play of chiaroscuro. The film is not edited in a traditional manner. We didn’t try to respect the usual succession of the frames, nor did we follow the soloists, nor did we try to sustain the rhythm of the musical work through our editing. The rhythm of the film changes, it doesn’t always coincide with the rhythm of the music. The spectator follows the changes of lighting, the movements of the interpreters, their faces, their emotions. The people of Saint Petersburg who came to see the performance are also the characters of the film.
(A. Sokurov)

在德裔苏联大钢琴家里赫特去世前一年，纪录片导演、小提琴家布鲁诺·蒙桑容（他因拍摄古尔德、梅纽因而成为音乐家纪录片领域内的大师）带着摄制组和传主同起居近一年，其成果是这部纪录片以及一本谈话录《里赫特：笔记与对话》见
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纪录片拍摄得非常朴实，传主本人对着镜头，用俄语讲述他的一生事件和艺术观念。态度和用语相当直率，据说在书中，保留了更多他的“粗话”。

这部关于1936年柏林奥运会的纪录片是第一部纪录夏季奥运会的电影。有如英雄史诗般气势恢弘，堪称影片史上的经典之作。至今仍有争议的德国女导演莱妮·瑞芬斯塔尔在拍摄本片时得到希特勒的全力支持，动用了大量的人力与物力，可以说空前绝后。影片通过镜头向观众展示了运动之美，竞争的刺激以及理想主义的巅峰。同时试图以歌颂年轻男性躯体之美以及运动的威力来宣扬纳粹精神，被认为是一部纳粹唯美主义的登峰造极之作，从此永远打上了历史的烙印。本片分上下两部，由《国家的节日》和《美的节日》构成。

我们是谁？从哪里来？又将归往何处？这些问题和我们的生存息息相关，但却很少有人能够给出准确的答案。历时14个月，穿越24个国家，导演罗恩·弗里克（Ron Fricke）用镜头向我们展示了大自然能够拥有的最壮阔最绚丽的景致——从远古到现在，从猿猴到人类，从荒无人烟的沙漠到震撼人心的宗教活动现场，从广袤天地带来的感动到婴孩单纯的笑脸给予的幸福，我们会发现，很多时候，我们并不能意识到，这美好的一切正时时刻刻的发生在我们身边。
全片没有台词，片名Baraka在古伊斯兰语中代表祝福，这也是导演拍摄此片的初衷，祝福与我们共同存在在这颗蔚蓝地球上的一切。

2011日本311地震海啸灾后纪录短片
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导演露西·沃克是去年奥斯卡提名纪录长片《垃圾场》的导演之一
2012奥斯卡最佳纪录短片8部短名单之一

Two-part documentary which deals with two of the deepest questions there are - what is everything, and what is nothing?
In two epic, surreal and mind-expanding films, Professor Jim Al-Khalili searches for an answer to these questions as he explores the true size and shape of the universe and delves into the amazing science behind apparent nothingness.
The first part, Everything, sees Professor Al-Khalili set out to discover what the universe might actually look like. The journey takes him from the distant past to the boundaries of the known universe. Along the way he charts the remarkable stories of the men and women who discovered the truth about the cosmos and investigates how our understanding of space has been shaped by both mathematics and astronomy.
The second part, Nothing, explores science at the very limits of human perception, where we now understand the deepest mysteries of the universe lie. Jim sets out to answer one very simple question - what is nothing? His journey ends with perhaps the most profound insight about reality that humanity has ever made. Everything came from nothing. The quantum world of the super-small shaped the vast universe we inhabit today, and Jim can prove it.

由保护国际基金会（Conservation International）创意的“大自然在说话”系列公益影片在美国发布，并获得了公众持续的关注与支持。该系列影片是首部以大自然元素为“第一人称”讲述自然与人类关系的环保影片，以其独特的视角、新颖的表现方式，获得了好莱坞8位国际一线巨星的倾力支持。“大自然在说话”系列公益影片项目于4月登陆中国，如今，七部系列公益影片的中文版来到中国，从4月8日起，将以每周一部的频率出现在中国观众面前。七位在中国颇具影响力的演员蒋雯丽、葛优、姜文、周迅、濮存昕、陈建斌、汤唯分别为影片配音，助力推广环保活动。
“大自然在说话”系列公益影片极具创意，以“大自然不需要人类，人类需要大自然”为宣传口号，由苹果公司的广告创意奇才李·克劳（Lee Clow）创意并组织团队制作了8支精美系列公益影片，内容涉及大自然母亲、雨林、土地、海洋、珊瑚礁、水、花、红木。该公益影片项目获得了强大的好莱坞一线明星支持，茱莉亚·罗伯茨（Julia Roberts）、哈里森·福特（Harrison Ford）、凯文·史派西（Kevin Spacey）、爱德华·诺顿（Ed Norton）、佩内洛普·科鲁兹（Penelope Cruz）、罗伯特·雷德福（Robert Redford）、伊恩·萨默海尔德（Ian Somerhalder）和露皮塔·尼永奥（Lupita Nyong’o）纷纷为其“献声”，赋予大自然以声音，传递大自然的心声，引发人类对自己行为的思考，并倡导人类意识及行为的改变。
日前，保护国际基金会正全力将“大自然在说话”系列公益影片项目推广至全球，邀请人类一起倾听大自然的诉说，希望通过激发能让人们认识到大自然在我们生活中承担着重要角色的对话，最终推动整个社会价值观和行为的改变。大自然不需要人类，人类需要大自然，保护大自然，迫在眉睫。

BBC最新高清纪录片，将镜头瞄准我们这颗星球上的植物，由主持人Iain Stewart 教授带领大家走进植物的世界，了解植物的起源及生命机理。这个主持人之前主持过 - 地球的力量， 非常喜欢主持人Iain Stewart 教授，可能就是因为这个带有浓重苏格兰口音的家伙，该系列纪录片知识性很强，而最难能可贵的是，专业乏味的植物学知识在他和BBC主创人员鬼斧神工般的技巧下变得娓娓动听！堪称高清版的 - 植物私生活
此系列一共分为三集：
Life from Light 生命源自阳光
The Power of Flowers 花的力量
The Challenger 挑战

由日本NHK推出的纪录片《南美玻利维亚乌尤尼盐原纪行》，将带领您走进这块离天堂最近的地方，玻利维亚西乌尤尼盐湖。跟随美女主持人中山亚微梨的脚步，我们将走进位于玻利维亚西南部的乌尤尼小镇附近，踏入这面世界上最大的“天空之镜”。
这块原本荒芜的盐沼，由于面积大，表面光滑，反射率高，且覆盖着浅水，从而形成了特殊的盐沼水层，使大地就像天空的倒影般纯净美好，美丽得令人窒息。玻利维亚乌尤尼盐沼以其奇特的景色和宁静的环境，成为许多旅游爱好者的梦想之地，让人甘心浸没在这座至真至纯的白色世界中，听风听水，陶然自得。

BBC“电视史上的里程碑”，当代艺术历史最具雄心壮志的纪录片拍摄工作，由著名艺术历史学家克拉克爵士担任编剧与主持，探讨西欧文明，而爵士更在本片中界定了人类文明发展中的几个重要阶段。《文明的轨迹》历时两年才拍摄完毕，剧组跨越13个国家，曾走访百多个城市拍摄，本纪录片首年播出时更被喻为电视史上的代表作。克拉克爵士引人入胜的对白，再加上欧洲地标动人画面，带领我们探索自罗马帝国沦亡至工业革命用其后的文明发展。这种通过艺术、音乐来呈现历史观点的做法，成为日后无数纪录片看齐并努力超越的基准。
"Kenneth Clark's sumptuous,magisterial,one-man servey of the achievements of bumanistic civilisation is a TV landmark" The daily mail
In 1966 BBC Television embarked on its most ambitious documentary series to date.The eminent art historian Lord Clark was commissioned to write and present an epic examination of Western Eyuopean culture,defining what he considered to be the crucial phases of its development.Civilisation:A personal View by Lord Clark would be more than two years in the making,with filming in over 100 locations across 13 countries.The lavish series was hailed as a masterpiece when it was first transmitted in 1969.
From the fall of the Roman Empire to the Industrial Revolution and beyond,Clark's compelling narrative is accompanied by breathtaking colour photography of Europe's grearest landmarks.This "history of ideas as illustrated by art and music'remains the benchmark for the numerous programmes it inpired.
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大卫·艾登堡禄爵士回忆《文明的轨迹》制作过程 Sir David Attenborough remembers the making of Civilisation
剧相馆 Photo gallery of behind-the-scenes stills

主持人吉米·多尔蒂走进英国自然历史博物馆的幕后，与博物馆工作人员进行近距离交流，探索该馆浩瀚藏品的秘密。
博物馆幕后是如何运作的？为何要保存7000万余件标本？馆中科学家们的研究工作，与当今世界有何关联？他们为保护生物多样性、防止热带传染病，又做出了何种贡献？
共六集：
1. Museum in a Modern World.现代世界的博物馆
2. Digging up the Past. 挖掘过去
3. All Creatures Great and Small. 生物无巨细
4. Discovery. 发现无限
5. The Power of Insects. 昆虫力量
6. A Collection for the Future. 未来收藏

梅第奇家族的最重大的成就在于艺术和建筑方面，在文艺复兴时期起了很大的促进作用。乔凡尼是这个家族中第一个赞助艺术的。 援助马萨其奥并且定货重建圣洛伦佐教堂。科西莫·德·梅第奇著名的艺术性的合作者是多那太罗和菲利波·利比修士。那段时期里最灿烂的一笔就是米开朗基罗，从洛伦佐开始他在几代人的时间里都为梅第奇家族效劳。除了委任艺术和建筑方面的工作外，梅第奇家族也进行大量收藏，现在他们的收藏是佛罗伦萨的乌菲兹美术馆的核心展品。
在建筑方面，梅第奇家族给佛罗伦萨留下了许多著名的景点，其中包括乌菲兹美术馆，皮蒂宫，波波里庭院和贝尔维德勒别墅。
除了在艺术和建筑方面的成就．该家族在科学方面也有突出贡献，赞助了达芬奇和伽利略这样的天才．
这些惊人的成就使得梅第奇家族被称为文艺复兴教父（The Godfathers of the Renaissance）。
乔凡尼委任布鲁内勒斯基 重建圣洛伦佐教堂 1419年。
科西莫委任布鲁内勒斯基继续未完成的圆顶圣母百花大教堂。1436年 当时世界最大的圆顶完工 。
托莱多的埃利诺拉，科西莫一世的妻子，购买皮蒂宫 1550年 。
科西莫一世资助创建乌菲兹美术馆的乔治·瓦萨里（1560年）并且建立设计学院 1562年 。
玛丽·德·梅第奇，法国国王亨利四世的遗孀，路易十三的母亲，表现在彼得·保罗·鲁本斯的油画《法国王后玛丽·德·梅第奇在马赛登陆》中（1622年－23年）。

Gang of Four
Episode 1 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Art writer Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists. In the first episode, Waldemar delves into the back stories of four of the most influential Impressionists - Pissarro, Monet, Renoir and Bazille - who together laid the foundations of the artistic movement. He finds out what social and cultural influences drove them to their style of painting, how they were united and how ultimately they challenged and changed art forever.
Waldemar journeys from the shores of the West Indies, to the progressive city of Paris to the suburbs of South London, where these four artists drew inspiration from the cities and towns in which they lived. Whether it be the infamous spot on the river Seine - La Grenouillere - where Monet and Renoir beautifully captured animated people, iridescent light and undulating water or the minimalist, non-sensationalised illustrations of Pissarro's coarse countryside paintings, Waldemar discovers how the Impressionists broke conventions by depicting every day encounters within the unpredictable and ever changing sights around them.
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Painting outdoors
Episode 2 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the Impressionists by taking us outdoors to their most famous locations. Although Impressionist pictures often look sunny and relaxed, achieving this peaceful air was hard work. Trudging through fog, wind and rain, across treacherous coastal rocks and knee-deep snow, Waldemar shows how the famous spontaneity of the Impressionists is thoroughly misleading.
This episode visits the French riverside locations that Monet loved to paint, and where Renoir captured the bonhomie of modern life. Waldemar also introduces a number of technical and practical developments of the age which completely revolutionised Impressionist painting - the invention of portable easels; the use of hog's hair in paint brushes; as well as the introduction of the railway through France. And a scientific demonstration in a Swedish snowdrift explains just how right the Impressionists were to paint brightly coloured shadows in their winter scenes, despite being accused of 'hallucinating' at the time.
Finally, Januszczak explains Cezanne's part in the Impressionist story from his dark and challenging early work to his first rural landscapes in France, and then his departure from Paris and separation from the Impressionist gang.
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Painting the People
Episode 3 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the Impressionists, focusing this time on the people they painted and in particular the subjects of Degas, Caillebotte and the often forgotten Impressionist women artists. The Impressionists are famous for painting landscape but they were just as determined to paint people.
Looking closely at one of Impressionism's finest painters, Edgar Degas, Waldemar reveals how he consistently challenged traditions and strove to record real life as it appeared in the city, from sculpting the contorted movements of horses in motion at the Longchamp race course in Paris to encapsulating extravagant 3D viewpoints of the ballet dancers at the Paris Opera.
Waldemar also uncovers the intoxicating haziness the pastel produced in Degas' work when visiting his supplier Pastels de Roche. He also reveals the unusual viewpoints and dramatic perspectives of Caillebotte's paintings from the Place de L'Europe and the rebellious and revolutionary art of Morisot, Bracquemond and Cassatt, three impressive female artists who were eagerly embraced by the progressive movement of Impressionism
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Final Flourish
Episode 4 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
This episode takes a closer look at the late years of Impressionism, using the last show these artists did together as a starting point.
Waldemar looks in considerable depth at the work of Georges Seurat, taking into consideration his academic training at the Beaux-Arts School in Paris and the artists that influenced him, such as Piero della Francesca and Puvis de Chavannes.
There is also an insight into the complex but fascinating world of optics and art, and the ways in which the Impressionists were using the new discoveries in light and eyesight to influence their work. A fascinating 'after-image' experiment brings to life the ways in which our own eyes see colour, both in its presence and its absence.
Van Gogh's time in Paris, a period very little is known about, is also covered, charting the incredible journey the artist made from his brown and dull canvases to the splendid colour and light that pervaded his work on the cusp of his departure for the South of France.
The film finishes with a revisiting of Monet and his later waterlily paintings in the Orangerie in Paris. Waldemar investigates how a bad case of cataracts was responsible for a seismic shift in his colour palette and his brushstrokes. Spending time with an ophthalmologist, he finds out how old age and a fairly common ailment of the eyes caused Impressionism to shift and become radical again at the turn of the century and into the 20th century

一连三集《优雅的宇宙》探讨二十世纪物理学一项重大发现－弦理论（String Theory），从爱恩斯坦到现代在「弦理论」上的发展过程，深入浅出地作出介绍。「弦理论」提到宇宙原本有十一次元空间，及后发生了一场爆炸，使当中一些次元收缩到基本粒子的空间之中，造成天文物理学家在观测天象时出现差距。