Episode 1 - Ark of the Covenant The hunt for the truth about the most famous lost treasure of them all. Did the Ark of the Covenant really exist? What it did look like? What was the power that it was said to hold? And what happened to it? Where is it now? Episode 2 - Bust of Nefertiti The extraordinary story behind one of the most famous images from the ancient world. Who was Queen Nefertiti? Who made the blue-crowned bust which turned her into a modern icon? Could the Nefertiti bust be a fake? Episode 3 - Great Pyramid Armed with a four and a half thousand year old diary, and a radical new approach. Engineer Peter James and leading archaeologist Mark Lehner set out to solve Ancient Egypt’s greatest mystery. How was the Great Pyramid built? Episode 4 - Easter Island Heads Unlocking the mysteries of the most recognizable statues on earth. How were the thousand giant stone heads of Easter Island made, and why? Why did the Islanders topple all of them, except one? Episode 5 - Blackbeard's Ship Off the coast of North Carolina, nautical archaeologists, historians and scientists study the artifacts of a 300 year old shipwreck. Positively identified as Blackbeard’s flagship, our investigators set about to uncover what the ship’s remains can tell us about history’s most notorious pirate. Episode 6 - Spear of Destiny In a search that spans four countries and 20 centuries, we investigate the legend of the Spear of Destiny. First mentioned in the New Testament, the spear is said to have pierced the side of Jesus. Believed to have special powers, kings and conquerors from Charlemagne to Hitler tried to possess it.
在这部扣人心弦的系列纪录片中,传奇记者乔治·纳普踏上环球之旅,寻找有关不明飞行物的新证据并调查它们在地球的踪迹。
李小龙未满周岁便亮相银幕的《金门女》,导演伍锦霞是 三藩市华侨,三、四十年代在香港和美国执导过九部粤 语片,不乏民族意识及女权色彩。既是第一位执导港片 的海外华人女导演,更是独立特行、超越时代的奇女子, 毕生短髮男装打扮,人皆以「霞哥」相称,于纽约经营 的中餐馆更成了传奇地标。影片在资料蒐集与追访亲友 之馀,不忘拿同样大志未竟的两位同期的影坛先锋作映 照,华裔荷裡活女星黄柳霜及当时唯一的荷裡活女导演 Dorothy Arzner,皆被时代遗忘多时,今日重获肯定。
A moving and timely documentary following the unsolved murder of Venus Xtravaganza, star of the legendary Paris Is Burning as Venus’ two families — biological and ballroom — come together to seek answers and celebrate her legacy.