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　　英国BBC电视台耗时5年制作的纪录片《冰冻地球》于近期推出。这部耗资巨大的纪录片用镜头真实的展现了正在逐渐溶解的地球两极，以及生活在这里的各种生物，片中种种景象让人叹为观止。
　　纪录片的解说员大卫·艾登堡（David Attenborough）爵士称，这可能是人类在地球气 候产生剧烈变化前欣赏到这一景象的最后的机会了。现年85岁的艾登堡爵士说，“这部纪录片捕捉了此前从未记录下来的很多行为和现象。随着时间的流逝，这些影像将会变得越来越珍贵，因为这很可能是我们最后的机会去记录下这些珍贵的场景。虽然在我们到达前的数百年甚至几千年前，地球两极的景象非常壮观，但是最近一个世纪以来，很多变化已经超过了人们的认识。”
　　《冰冻地球》的摄制组采用了可以在低温下工作的特殊摄影机进行拍摄。这部耗时5年才问世的纪录片捕捉了很多珍贵的画面，表现出大自然神秘奇幻的一面：包括冰山崩塌，神秘的活火山喷发这些真实的自然现象，以及岩石峰，美轮美奂的融水湖和针叶林；此外，这些真实的图片也表现了大自然中残忍的一面，动物之间相互的角逐、厮杀，比如一头雄性北极熊勇敢击退多达10名情敌，身披血渍和伤痕，最终抱得美人归。这部纪录片还经常拍摄到一些生物是如何团结协作捕杀猎物的，比如虎鲸共同合作猎捕海豹等。借助高科技设备，摄制组还记录下了南极大陆中心地带广袤而荒芜的陆地，以及鲸鱼是迁徙到极地的过程。
　　整个纪录片是以季节的变化为主线的，记录了地球两极在一年内展现出的各种场景，从“大融化”的春天，到24小时都在光线照耀下的夏日，再到“大冰封”的秋天，最后以长夜漫漫的冬天结尾。纪录片最后还讲述了一些有趣的冒险经历，以及一些如何在极端寒冷和无法预知的恶劣的气候下生存的技巧。

　　Ohio Valley Wrestling of Louisville, Kentucky is a regional wrestling gym whose alumni include Brock Lesnar, The Miz, John Cena, Dave Bautista, and Randy Orton. Once a proud finishing school for aspiring pro wrestlers, the gym has since hit hard times. Acclaimed wrestler Al Snow clings to an old-school wrestling philosophy with a heavy emphasis on storytelling, but in spite of the love of a few diehard fans, the gym struggles week to week to stay relevant enough to keep its doors open. Things have become so dire financially that Al has to sell a majority stake to a group of local businessmen including Matt Jones, the most popular radio personality in the state of Kentucky. Matt and the new ownership group have infused the struggling gym with much-needed cash but it still operates at a staggering loss. The new owners have given Al the summer to turn things around. Wrestlers chronicle the efforts Al and his band of aspiring wrestlers makes as they struggle with their personal ambitions and each other while they attempt to come together to save this historic gym.

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　　Netflix四集纪录片，五个来自印度最低种性的女孩，在一家为她们提供14年免费教育（2年学前+12）的住宿学校的成长过程。
　　算了一下，断断续续拍了八九年，有的从学前班跟拍到初中，有的从初中跟拍到进入社会工作。这所叫做Shanti Bhavan 的学校，创办人是一个美籍印度商人，在49岁的时候，也就是1997年，决定回到印度，为当地最穷的家庭建一所学校。这些有机会获得免费教育的孩子，有一个责任，那就是找到工作后，必须帮助自己的家庭和社区，而不是一走了之。
　　这些孩子的成长是充满了矛盾的，不断在安全稳定的学校和贫困的家庭环境中转换，在现代价值和印度传统价值中挣扎，从而塑造一个独立的自我。虽然是免费教育，对于这些家庭来说，要相信自己的孩子，在14年，甚至17年（加上3年大学，也是由这所学校支付学费）后可以帮助改善家庭，也是一个漫长的投资。虽然印度很穷，充满不平等，还有各种让人觉得匪夷所思的风俗，（比如其中一个女孩，她的祖母一直等着她长大嫁给她的儿子，也就是女孩的叔叔。因为有了接受教育的机会，女儿拒绝了祖母的要求，现在她已经成为一名记者，出了一本书），但在印度，民间可以专心办一所这样的学校，除了经费，不用担心其它，可以让这些孩子的教育过程不被中断。这所学校是混合教育，之所以纪录片把镜头对准女孩，是因为她们除了种姓，还要面对性别带来的不公平。

　　时间是1970年，故事的主角是一只和人类拥有着百分之九十八以上相同基因的黑猩猩，科学家们亲切地称它为尼姆。刚刚出生，尼姆就和母亲分开了，因为他已经成为了一个有趣实验中的重要角色。
　　之后，尼姆被送入了一个位于曼哈顿的富有家庭之中，在那里，尼姆被善良的“父母”当做人类小孩一般抚养和教育，很快，聪明的尼姆就学会了手语，亦懂得了如何表达自己的愿望和需求。然而，此时问题开始显现，因为尼姆的行为举止已经和人类过于相像了，它开始有了自我意识，甚至觉得自己就是人类的一份子，对于尼姆这样一个即非“人类”，又非“黑猩猩”的“生物”，它会有着怎样的未来呢？

　　Ancient Worlds is about people and places, politics and economics, art and war, trade and technology, but above all it’s the story of the painful birth and difficult growth of a radical idea first tried and tested some six thousand years ago, and which we are still struggling with today; civilisation. Civilisation has not come easily; it’s something we’ve had to fight hard to achieve, and even harder to maintain, and the greatest threats to it have come from our own talents for destruction. But when we’ve managed to get it right, the benefits have been enormous.
　　When we talk about the ancient world we tend to think of rare and exotic artefacts or the monumental remains of epic architecture; but these are just the empty shells that got left behind when the tide of history turned! The living creatures, the civilisations, that once inhabited these shells were rarely if ever static or stately; they were dynamic, chaotic, and always threatening to spin out of control, because civilisation is based on an improbable idea; that strangers can live and work together in dense urban settings, forging new allegiances that replace the natural ties of family, clan or tribe. It’s an idea we’re still coming to terms with today, but one of the best ways to understand the challenges that are involved is to look at how our ancestors tackled them the first time around.
　　From ancient Iraq to Imperial Rome, Ancient Worlds examines how our ancestors struggled with the levers of religion and politics, art and culture, war and diplomacy, technology and trade in order to keep the complex machinery of their civilisations turning over. Their insights and blind-spots, their breakthroughs and dead ends, their triumphs and disasters are the milestones on the long and winding road that leads directly from their ancient to our modern world.

　　长子悲剧性惨死后，路易斯安那州一名药剂师采用极端手段揭露阿片成瘾危机背后猖獗的贪腐问题。

　　此節目融合了虛構劇情和紀錄片元素，檢視鄂圖曼帝國的歷史。

　　Joanna Lumley embarks on the world’s greatest train journey for this epic new three-part documentary series, The series sees Joanna travel from East to West, departing from Hong Kong across 5777 miles of both Asia and Europe, through seven time zones, taking in an immense panorama of vistas and cultures, people and places, before her final arrival in Moscow. Everything about this legendary journey is of epic proportions. It cuts across three distinct countries, cultures, landscapes and languages and crosses some of the worlds most geographically challenging, yet resource rich and scenically splendid regions. Joanna will be hopping on and off the train visiting people and places as she travels.