影片纪录了《国家地理》杂志摄影师詹姆斯·巴洛格长达数年的南极冰川考察之旅。曾经一度巴洛格对于全球气候变暖的说法半信半疑，但这次考察改变了他的看法，通过他的摄像机镜头纪录，让我们意识到我们的星球已经面目全非、越发虚弱。巴洛格在一个由年轻人组成的探险团队的帮助下，通过直升机，木艇、雪橇等交通工具，跨越三个大洲旅行，为我们带来了震撼视觉和人心的影像和拷问。
Do animals have feelings? Empathy even? A documentary with some insights due to advancing technology.
Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorably weaken until it disappeared? Archaeologists, specialists in ancient pathologies and climate historians are now accumulating clues converging on the same factors: a powerful cooling and pandemics. A disease, whose symptoms described by the Greek physician Galen are reminiscent of those of smallpox, struck Rome in 167, soon devastating its army. At the same time, a sudden climatic disorder that was underway as far as Eurasia caused agricultural yields to plummet and led to the westward migration of the Huns. Plagued by economic and military difficulties, attacked from all sides by barbarian tribes, the Roman edifice gradually cracked.
Born in London in 1934, Jane Goodall spent decades in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, studying the social and family structures of chimpanzees and helping to bring their ecological vulnerability into the public consciousness. She also founded and remains integral to the Jane Goodall Institute, which encourages environmental activism and stewardship among young people. In this program, the famous scientist reflects on her many years spent observing and learning about our primate cousins.
The end of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) saw the birth of the panoramas of war, huge circular paintings depicting scenes of war, cruelty and desolation that were contemplated by thousands of spectators, a kind of inmersive static newsreels, a mass media prior to the era of mass media, a virtual reality on canvas.
