《安德鲁马尔的世界历史》是BBC于2012年播出的一部关于人类文明历史的电视纪录片。该片共8集，由苏格兰记者及时事评论员安德鲁马尔主持，并由5个导演负责拍摄，每集时长1小时，且收视率均超过2百万。
在此片中，安德鲁马尔踏上了一段穿越7万年世界历史的史诗般的旅程。从人类文明的开始，即非洲游牧民族分散到世界各地并定居成为最早期的农民，一直到二十世纪，包括了其中的帝国兴衰，伟大革命，中世纪时期，启蒙运动和英国的工业革命，讲述了大自然的力量和人类中的天才是如何奠定了我们如今的世界。

"这一部史诗般的纪录片讲述了70000年的人类历史，囊括了各个时间段的历史大事。 这是一个关于人性的故事，介绍了重大历史事件发生时的重要人物。这也是一个关于文化的兴盛和衰败的故事，总结人类进步和成就的故事。 每一集纪录片都探索了历史上一个重要的转折点，其中包括戏剧性的情景再现、计算机动画和生动形象的讲述。 从美索不达米亚的早期移民到埃及和罗马的奇迹，从法国大革命到工业革命，观众身临其境，与我们今天所了解的那些塑造世界的伟人并肩同行。"

本片用迷幻的影像和摇滚乐讲述了一个非典型乐队主唱的成长史。儿时，平克（鲍勃•吉尔道夫 Bob Geldof 饰）的父亲在二战中身亡，母亲与家庭医生关系暧昧，这让他幼小心灵备受创伤。在学校，他对呆板的填鸭教育深恶痛绝，时刻准备着绝地反击。成年后，他在泡吧时结识了风骚的舞女，并与之发生了关系。然而，性欲的满足感并没有维持太久，他就厌倦了这种不靠谱的感情，特别是他对于女人的怀疑和嫉妒达到了无以复加的地步，因此当对方再度示好投怀送抱的时候，他便歇斯底里地爆发了，仿佛要把全世界都砸碎了才算安心。在此期间，他还表达了强烈的反战情绪和愤世嫉俗的观念，在物质丰富的生活中，他的精神生活极度匮乏，在工业化大行其道的环境里，他还固守着梦想的断壁残垣……

在这部纪录片里，大卫·马龙聚焦四位无与伦比的数学家：乔治·康托尔、路德维格・玻尔兹曼、哥德尔和阿兰·图灵。他们的天才光耀千古，他们的智慧深刻地影响了后世的我们。但是当同时代的人用尖刻的、猛烈的批评表达他们的反对意见时，它能产生一种悲剧性的结果，使他们精神错乱，最终都以自杀结束了自己的生命。
本片也与目前最著名的学者进行了对话。包括Greg Chaitin——纽约IBM TJ华生研究中心的数学家，以及罗杰·彭罗斯等人，他们仍在孜孜不倦地探寻世上到底是否有数学家不能弄明白的事。
《危险的知识》抓住了一些现实的深刻的问题，目前数学家仍在力图给出解答。请看一下下面的信息：这是一部完整的纪录片，只是因为技术原因才分为两部分。观看的时候要看完，而且请不要在看第一部分之前看第二部分。
1 of 2　上帝的信使
这部片子从乔治·康托尔开始讲起。他是一位伟大的数学家，创立的集合论已被尊为20世纪全部数学的基础。他认为自己是上帝的信使。因为他的老师利奥波德·克罗内克痛恨并敌视他以及他的理论，来自数学权威们的巨大精神压力终于摧垮了康托尔，结果康托尔精神失常，最终被疯狂所驱使，力图证明自己的无穷数理论。事实上，他的晚年是在精神病院度过的。
路德维格・玻尔兹曼力争证明原子和概率的存在，而奥斯特瓦尔德和马赫的强烈批评使他深感失望，导致了他最后的自杀。
2 of 2　谜团
哥德尔是爱因斯坦的一位性格内向的密友，一位智慧巨人。哥德尔定理粉碎了逻辑最终将使我们理解整个世界的梦想，同时也引发了许多富有挑战性的问题。他证明了形式数论（即算术逻辑）系统的「不完全性定理」：即使把初等数论形式化之后，在这个形式的演绎系统中也总可以找出一个合理的命题来，在该系统中既无法证明它为真，也无法证明它为假。哥德尔最终在一家疗养院绝食而死，因为他认为那些食物有毒。
阿兰·图灵，恩尼格玛密电码的破译者，计算机科学 “人工智能之父”，同性恋者。图灵为证明一些永远不能被证实的事情而死，外界的说法是服毒自杀，一代天才就这样走完了人生。（献给本文所有伟大而孤独的悲剧英灵。喵喵驴驴译，错误之处烦请各位达人指正，谢谢。部分资料来源于网络。）
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.
The film also talks to the latest in the line of thinkers who have continued to pursue the question of whether there are things that mathematics and the human mind cannot know. They include Greg Chaitin, mathematician at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, and Roger Penrose.
Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of reality that mathematical thinkers are still trying to answer today. see notes below:1 documentary, only split for technical reasons. broadcast in 1, watch in 1, get both parts, don't start to watch pt2 before pt1.
1 of 2 God's messenger
The film begins with Georg Cantor, the great mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of the 20th-century mathematics. He believed he was God's messenger and was eventually driven insane trying to prove his theories of infinity.
Ludwig Boltzmann's struggle to prove the existence of atoms and probability eventually drove him to suicide.
2 of 2 The Enigma
Kurt Gödel, the introverted confidant of Einstein, proved that there would always be problems which were outside human logic. His life ended in a sanatorium where he starved himself to death.
Finally, Alan Turing, the great Bletchley Park code breaker, father of computer science and homosexual, died trying to prove that some things are fundamentally unprovable.
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Isaac Newton - brilliant rational mathematician or master of the occult? This innovative biography reveals Newton as both a hermit and a tyrant, a heretic and an alchemist. Magical images mix with actors and experts to bring alive Britain's greatest scientific genius in his own words.

这是一部现代风格的戏剧，介绍了生于维也纳，在剑桥读书的哲学家Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)的生平及思想。他的主要兴趣在于研究语言的本质与极限。
电影使用最简单的黑色背景，所有的投资都用在服装、演员以及灯光上，构图就像黑暗的启蒙主义绘画。Wittgenstein以一个小男孩的形象出现，他的少年时代很压抑，银幕上他的家人都身穿罗马人的宽外袍。一系列的小场景描述了他从小时候，到第一次世界大战，再到最终在剑桥当教授和Bertrand Russell以及John Maynard Keynes合作的生平。导演Derek Jarman使用了一些戏剧小品，还有富于想象力的小花招，比如出现了火星侏儒，来表现Wittgenstein的贵族举止，犹太背景，以及同性恋倾向。

梁文道称：“约翰•伯格是西方左翼浪漫精神的真正传人，一手是投入公共领域的锋锐评论，另一手则是深沉内向的虚构创作。”约翰•伯格于今年1月离世，使得这部纪录片成为他晚年生活弥足珍贵的记录影像。
影片由四部风格迥异的短片构成，串联起一年四季。以约翰·伯格生前所居住过的小镇昆西为背景，用平实的故事以及诗一般的画面，为约翰·伯格褪去艺术家和名人的光环，还原成一位普通的老人，真诚质朴。小村庄中的居民也各有故事。导演也用更多历史影像穿插融合在老人的生活中，给人以诗的穿越感和遐想的空间，是一部非常优美的纪录片。

影片用一封无法投递的信件串联起梵高在去世前最后六周里与他生命中最重要的三个人物之间的秘密，带观众穿越回十九世纪末的欧洲，并陪伴梵高走完他最后的人生。影片采用梵高原画作品中的人物原型还原梵高的艺术人生，让观众在享受美得令人窒息的视觉盛宴时，抽丝剥茧地发现隐藏了一个半世纪的秘密。

简陋的手绘动画讲述的是一对男女在咖啡厅里的约会经历。 中间穿插着基于男女间性别倾向和微妙的心理变化的超现实情节。 镜头和场景的切换灵活多变。

一个暧昧起伏的关于救赎和引诱的故事，阿努比斯是死的象征，在这里却与欲望相连，仿佛死亡就是变形人生的最大欲望，它指向逃避还是救赎呢？轮回、堕落与重生，生命的延续不停在个人死亡的脚下，而是在对欲望的追逐、于灵魂的堕落、向新生的希望中继续。

拉马努金（戴夫·帕特尔 Dev Patel 饰）出生在印度一个非常贫困的家庭之中，从很小的时候起，他就展现出了异于常人的数学天赋，可是因为家境贫寒，家人无法给拉马努金提供一个良好的教育环境。1904年，拉马努金凭借着自己的努力进入了贡伯戈纳姆大学就读，却因为严重偏科而没有毕业，之后的日子里，拉马努金开始自学数学。
1912年，拉马努金所撰写的论文《伯努尼数的一些性质》发表了，这篇文章在数学界激起了一些水花，也给拉马努金带来了些许的名声。之后，在好友的帮助下，拉马努金给著名数学家哈代（杰瑞米·艾恩斯 Jeremy Irons 饰）写了自荐信，哈代非常重视这位前途无量的年轻人，引荐他进入了剑桥大学深造。

二战期间，盟军苦于德国的秘密系统”英格玛“无法破译，政府召集了一批民间数学家、逻辑学家进行秘密破解工作，图灵（本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇 Benedict Cumberbatch 饰）就是其中之一。计划刚开始图灵遭到了以休（马修·古迪 Matthew Goode）为首的组员和领导的排斥，幸好军情处部长孟席斯（马克·斯特朗 Mark Strong 饰）帮助他立项研究破译密码的机器，而图灵则变成了负责人，招收了新的成员琼（凯拉·奈特莉 Keira Knightley）开始了艰难的工作。琼很快就迷上了图灵，由于她的帮助所有组员空前的团结，并于两年后成功破解德军的密码。图灵一度与琼订婚，但实际上他隐瞒了一个秘密，因为这个秘密他也遭受了非人的待遇……
本片改编自安德鲁·霍奇斯编著的《艾伦·图灵传》，上映后获得了第87届奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖。

《地平线》栏目帮你发现宠物猫在猫门以外的生活。 这是一个开创性的实验，研究人员给在萨里郡的一个村庄50只猫戴上了标签与GPS项圈，并记录他们的白天黑夜在后院、花园围栏和灌木狩猎和巡逻的行踪。 此片开发了猫对这个世界的独特视野。你以为你足够了解自己的宠物猫？其实他们的秘密生活会让你惊讶。

过去数十年来，全世界陆续有超过8000个麦田圆圈出现，有80人亲眼目击麦田圆圈在３秒内神奇出现。近年终于有人幸运地把麦田圆圈的出现过程拍摄下来，让全世界都能目睹它们奇异的出现经过！证据显示了麦田圆圈不可能是人造的，科学家在圆圈里找到极大的能量，神奇的化学物质及极复杂的几何程式，都是地球上未出现过的。从数学﹑几何﹑物理﹑化学﹑生物学﹑音乐﹑宗教﹑医学﹑哲学﹑心理学﹑神学与通灵方面，都在圆圈中发现了全新的突破；甚至出现外星人的图像与密码: 创造者可能是来自外星的5个行星的星系，人口有200亿，来地球的目的是想和地球人沟通...此外，走进圆圈里的病人竟然不药而愈，亦有人产生多种神奇的生理反应，或跟创造者有通灵的经历...去年，科学家在一个麦田圆圈中对应了令数学家困惑的圆周率的数值... 2009年6月，再有状似飞碟及行星的图案出现，更有一连串鸟类，昆虫及鱼类的图案出现，启示了动物面临的大灾难...科学家都纷纷提出2012年，将会是地球面临极大转变的重要时刻…麦田圆圈想要带给我们的，是先进的科学知识，还是地球灾难的启示？麦田圆圈的创造者到底是神﹑是天使﹑是外星人还是来自异度空间的超级智慧生物？且看全球科学家如何解码!

一部关于AlphaGo的纪录片定于4月21日在纽约翠贝卡电影节首映。该部纪录片由格雷格执导，演员表有李世石，樊麾，黄士杰，哈萨比斯和席尔瓦。影片时长90分钟。这部电影全方位展示了人机大战的过程，更尽可能多的揭示了人类思维的工作方式和人工智能未来的工作方式。

Ways of Seeing is a 1972 BBC four-part television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. Berger's scripts were adapted into a book of the same name. The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon.

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

《现代艺术大师》是英国广播公司BBC推出的一档电视系列节目，它由四部分组成，分别详细介绍了20世纪的四位重要的艺术大师：安迪·沃霍尔（Andy Warhol）、马蒂斯（Henri Matisse）、毕加索（Pablo Picasso）和达利（Salvador Dali）的工作与生活。在片中，镜头跟随主持人Alastair Sooke的脚步，走访了四位艺术家们生前的居所、艺廊及博物馆，甚至是他们最爱的餐厅等地，向观众展示了他们伟大的艺术贡献以及惊人的后世影响力。环顾四周，麦当娜的专辑封面、米菲兔的文具、甚至是你家的沙发和电话，也许就来源于这四位大师的创作……

故事改编自著名的二战军事事件“敦刻尔克大撤退”。二战初期，40万英法盟军被敌军围困于敦刻尔克的海滩之上，面对敌军步步逼近的绝境，形势万分危急。英国政府和海军发动大批船员，动员人民起来营救军队。
英国士兵汤米（菲昂·怀特海德 Fionn Whitehead 饰）在逃离海滩的过程中相继结识吉布森与亚历克斯，同时民用船主道森先生（马克·里朗斯 Mark Rylance 饰）与儿子彼得、17岁少年乔治也离开英国，去往敦刻尔克拯救士兵。三人陆续搭救了海军（基里安·墨菲 Cillian Murphy 饰）、飞行员柯林斯及汤米一行人，而战斗机飞行员法瑞尔（汤姆·哈迪 Tom Hardy 饰）则在被敌人双面夹击的艰难情形下顽强战斗。
影片的故事从陆、海、空三个角度讲述，在德国军队的包围下，每个人不得不为自己的命运背水一战，才有可能活着回家。