Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Jean Reno i reżyser Brian De Palma zapraszają na dwie godziny zapierającego dech kina akcji, opartego na wątkach telewizyjnego serialu sprzed lat. "Mission: Impossible" to film szpiegowski w dawnym stylu, do realizacji którego użyto najnowocześniejszych współczesnych technologii - arcydzieło efektów specjalnych i maestria reżysera, który jak nikt inny potrafi budować ekranowe napięcie. A wszystko po to, by przedstawić historię agenta amerykańskich służb specjalnych, od którego odwagi i determinacji zależy utrzymanie delikatnej równowagi między wielkimi mocarstwami. Równowagi, bez której świat stanie na krawędzi wojny.
An ambitious teaching student's finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician.
July. Major holiday departures. TGV Paris-Brest. Alex does her first steps as a train controller on a great line, flanked by her colleague Antoine. During an inspection, she crosses the way of a passenger who diverts her from her new functions.
The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but what did it take to build the longest undersea tunnel ever constructed? We hear from the men and women, who built this engineering marvel. Massive tunnel boring machines gnawed their way through rock and chalk, digging not one tunnel but three; two rail tunnels and a service tunnel. This was a project that would be privately financed; not a penny of public money would be spent on the tunnel. Business would have to put up all the money and take all the risks. This was also a project that was blighted by flood, fire, tragic loss of life and financial bust ups. Today, it stands as an engineering triumph and a testament to what can be achieved when two nations, Britain and France put aside their historic differences and work together.
Nearly 200 years ago, the train revolutionized our lives. It redrew the maps of states and nations, and changed concepts of distance and time like no other invention before. What visionaries imagined the development of the railroad? How did we get from the first chugging locomotives to the smooth giants of speed we see today? How does France's extensive rail network keep running smoothly, 24/7?
