简介:Dokumentarfilm Frankreich 2016 | arteTokio ist seit mehr als 60 Jahren die größte Stadt der Welt. Sie ist Zentrum eines Ballungsraums von über 36 Millionen Einwohnern, noch immer auf Expansionskurs. Japans Hauptstadt gilt vielen als Stadt der Zukunft. Dabei war Tokio noch vor 150 Jahren Edo - eine Stadt aus einfachen Holzbauten mit einer Million Einwohnern. Die Edo-Zeit endete im späten 19. Jahrhundert. Im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde Tokio zweimal zerstört, zuerst durch ein großes Erdbeben, dann während des Zweiten Weltkriegs durch US-Bomben. Jedes Mal musste Tokio von Grund auf neu aufgebaut werden. Ein Film über das wechselvolle Schicksal der Stadt.
简介:In this three-part series for BBC One, Sue will explore the lives of the people living close the river and the challenges facing India as it transforms into one the world's great economic powers. The Ganges is the story of modern India in one spectacular river.Sue Perkins follows her journeys up the Mekong and through Kolkata with an epic travel series down the length of the Ganges, which is worshipped by Hindus as a living Goddess. Sue will travel from the sacred source of the river, high in the Himalayas, through the industrial and agricultural heartlands of the Gangetic Plain and the ancient city of Varanasi, to the vast delta on the Bay of Bengal.She will join pilgrims seeking to wash clean the sins of alifetime at the Ganges' source; work alongside fishermen and farmers in the Sunderbarns, who share their forests with man-eating tigers; and join some of the thousands of young women leaving rural villages and moving to the cities to find work and freedom.Sue says: 「I've travelled the length of the Ganges, from the oxygen-starved peaks of the Himalayas to the vast delta in West Bengal, meeting a huge array of characters on the way. Expect cows on bridges, India's Most Energetic Monk, and me, in a dress. I can't wait for you to see it.」
简介:Centuries before the world's oceans became a global trade highway, Chinese seafarers set sail to faraway lands to exchange commodities. Now, Historian Sam Willis retraces the golden era of maritime trade to uncover a legacy that culminated in one of the greatest armadas of all time, and discover parallels between the world then and now.
简介:达瑞斯(塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰)曾是一名令业内人士闻风丧胆的超级杀手,如今已经缉拿归案的他屈居在铁窗之后,等待着漫长的刑期到头。达瑞斯的妻子索尼娅(萨尔玛·海耶克 Salma Hayek 饰)同样身陷囹圄,某日,达瑞斯得到了一个意外的机会,能 够令索尼娅重获自由,作为交换,他必须出庭作证证明邪恶的罪犯弗拉迪斯拉夫(加里·奥德曼 Gary Oldman 饰)有罪。
简介:After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine's mother Elisabeth. She then kidnaps Alba and takes her on a trip to a lake up North.
简介:In order to get out of a financial crisis, high school teacher Balz Naef (53) starts recruiting and training streakers for illegal sports betting. While he and his team help streaking bee the new trend sport, his situation does not improve. On the contrary: his troubles have only just begun.