太阳活动异常，地球内部的能量平衡系统面临崩溃，玛雅人的预言即将实现，人类将遭遇灭顶之灾。各国政府已经联手开始秘密制造方舟，希望能躲过这一浩劫。以写科幻小说谋生的杰克逊（约翰·库萨克 John Cusack 饰）在带孩子们到黄石公园渡周末时发生一连串怪事，而且遇到了神经兮兮的查理（伍迪·哈里森 Woody Harrelson 饰），查理告诉他世界末日即将来临。伴随着火山爆发，强烈地震以及海啸，杰克逊带领自己的家人驾驶一架临时租来的飞机冲出被死神阴霾瞬间笼罩的城市上空，开始寻找查理口中各国政府正在联合秘密制造的方舟。在生死攸关的时刻，一些伟大的鬼魂将脱颖而出，而一些自私的心灵将无所遁形，当千千万万个生灵通过各种方法来到方舟制造基地之时，方舟有限的容纳数量引发前所未有的恐慌。最终，仅存的人们用互爱和对生命的尊重渡过了难关。
在沙漠中生活的卡拉哈里人远离现代世界，在干旱的环境里自有一套谋生方式。卡拉哈里人奇哥（N!xau 饰）的两个幼子奇沙与奇尔在父亲寻找食物时被车厢的露水吸引，登上了偷猎者的卡车，却被不知情的偷猎者带走。奇哥自此踏上了追寻孩子的旅途……来自美国的法学博士安泰勒（Lena Farugia 饰）经一位心血来潮的飞行员邀请，登上了他的飞机，却为恶劣的天气影响，和动物学家马歇尔（Hans Strydom 饰）一同被困在沙漠的深处，两位博士术业有专攻，但野外生存肯定不是安泰勒的强项，女博士忙乱的表现为这次历险平添了轻松的气氛……古巴战士与非洲士兵为双方阵营而战，两个人一把枪传来传去，他们也先后做着对方的俘虏……这群人在沙漠深处的动物天堂穿插互动，上演了一出温馨轻松的喜剧。
婴儿约翰·克莱顿父母双亡，被母猿卡拉抱走。在卡拉抚养下，婴儿长大成人，视卡拉如生身母亲，取名泰山，泰山在猿类语言中是“白皮肤”的意思。泰山成为人猿之王。人类对森林袭击，卡拉丧生，泰山偶然救了比利时船长菲力普·达诺特。船长根据泰山颈上的项链，发现他原来是格雷斯托伯爵庄园的合法继承人，就把他带回英国。泰山逐渐学会了绅士应有的仪表风度，并与简·波特小姐订婚。泰山对博物馆中的动物标本感到震惊，他目睹自己的人猿“父亲”被人开枪打死，不愿再在文明社会中生活下去。最后，泰山告别心爱的未婚妻和好友达诺特船长，重新回到他的家园非洲丛林。
作为纪录电影大师弗拉哈迪的“毛利族三部曲”的最后一部（此前两部为《摩阿拿》和《南海白影》），影片讴歌了生死不渝的爱情，真实生动地反映了毛利人反对迷信和等级制度的斗争，有着鲜明的记录化风格，受到热烈欢迎。弗拉哈迪原著的本意是要拍一部表现毛利人社会生活的记录片，而茂瑙的不断修改则为其注入了更多的情节因素，招致弗拉哈迪的反对。在意见不合的情况下弗拉哈迪离开了摄制组，茂瑙不得不独立完成余下的工作。后来，弗拉哈迪也承认，在这部影片里，茂瑙有着更多的贡献。《禁忌》获第4届奥斯卡最佳摄影金像奖。 影片描写在南海上有个小岛，上面住着毛利人原始部落过着无忧无虑生活，部族依照当地信仰需要选举一位少女作为神供养（她将不能结婚），少女不愿过这种日子于是和未婚夫逃离了小岛，到了另一个岛生活，生活虽然艰难当时他们一直相亲相爱，直到部族首领（巫师）寻迹而至，少女不得不离开，他的未婚夫疯狂泅水去追赶那只载走他的未婚妻的船，他抓住了那艘船的缆绳，可是船上的巫师却把绳子割断，巨浪滔天，青年为了爱情悲壮地葬身于大海。
1983年，受 IRS (Institute of Regional Study) 委托，导演雷吉奥拍出了一部非叙事性的电视片，在这基础上，Qatsi系列第一部惊世之作《失衡生活》(Koyaanisqatsi)应运而生。在得到了包括卢卡斯、科波拉等人的大力支持与推广之后，《失衡生活》在当时形成了轰动性的效果。"KOYAANISQATSI"是美国印第安族霍皮人的方言，意指失去平衡的生活。导演高夫瑞·雷吉奥在这部历时八年制作的记录片中采用了创新的电影语言，全片没有情节、角色及对白，完全依靠影像及配乐。
这就是耗时7年的惊世之作，在当年轰动一时的记录片《失去平衡的生活》。Koyaanisqatsi的片名出自印第安语，有疯狂、混乱、失去平衡、崩溃和另类生活的含义。此片的诞生历经波折，曾经遭遇严重的资金危机，幸而得到包括卢卡斯、科波拉等著名电影人的大力支持，为完成影片的拍摄工作，身为导演的天主教牧师雷吉奥还亲自兼职出租车司机长达5年之久。这部非叙事性记录片以全新的手法，将优美的自然影像、都市风景和快慢动作处理、双重曝光以及人类破坏环境的镜头并置剪接在一起，以纯粹画面蒙太奇的形式，自然的景物与工业社会所创造的人工景物进行鲜明的对比。导演以宗教式的关怀，控诉了工业文明对自然环境的破坏，表达对人类现代社会工业化进程的忧虑。影片没有对主题进行任何说教而是，采取了舒缓的方式进行表达，镜头和音乐开始在表达自然景象时都很缓慢，后来速度逐渐加快，画面出现汽车、飞机和忙碌得像蚂蚁一样到处乱闯的人群，巧妙地组成一首由动态影像和交响音乐构成的叙事诗。
莉拉（帕特丽夏·阿奎特 Patricia Arquette 饰）崇尚自然，是一位自然主义者，然而她的男友内森（蒂姆·罗宾斯 Tim Robbins 饰）却是个实实在在的教条主义者，这两个性格和生活理念截然迥异的人，他们的爱情能够长久吗？最终，选择放弃自我的那个人是莉拉。一个名为帕弗（瑞斯·伊凡斯 Rhys Ifans 饰）的男人的出现打破了莉拉和内森之间艰难维系的平衡，帕弗从小就跟随着父亲生活在深山老林之中，外表和内心都和“野人”无异。内森兴致勃勃地要在帕弗身上开始自己的计划，而莉拉却感到了犹豫和矛盾。一边是被压抑的真性情，一边是和恋人多年的感情，莉拉会做出怎样的选择呢？
改编自叔叔杰西·祖拉斯基(Jerzy Zulawski)的科幻小说杰作《月球三部曲》，故事描述人类逃离毁灭的地球，飞船坠落在银色星球上，不久后有人开始在星球上进行造神运动，然信徒分化后一派奉此外来政权为神，另一派则视之为魔，人性贪婪的劣根性，在这星球上暴露的一览无遗……本片被誉为是“一部拍给另一个世界的人看的电影”。影评人一致推崇这部片是导演安德烈·祖拉斯基电影生涯中，最具史观、野心勃勃且兼具后现代主义的科幻哲思电影，也是他重回故乡波兰拍摄的归乡代表作。这部充满争议的杰作，安德烈以非常风格化又带着原始情欲的方式，传达其所钟爱的命题：一则后现代主义式的寓言。故事的结局，地球人不但改变原本的内在，连外在也慢慢变成介于人与鸟的中间物种。这种由内而外，进而转化成另一物种的隐喻，也为这部犹如政治寓言的科幻史诗，更添加了奇幻色彩。
一群宇航员在宇宙中执行了多年任务，返航时飞船却发生了故障，迫降在地球的海面上，很快，他们惊奇地发现，地球已经变得残破不堪，城市成为了一片废墟，而且他们在寻找幸存者时竟遭到食人丧尸的袭击。原来在他们离开地球的一段时间里一种致命病毒蔓延了整个大气层使人们死亡变异，现在他们要面对的，是如何在丧尸的包围圈中杀出一条生路……
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?
At the time of Nero, the Empire is at the height of its power, but Rome, where a million inhabitants live, is afraid of its enemies, of foreigners, of barbarians. Rome is afraid of the Tyrant and of its own power. And all these fears seem to crystallize in that of fire, more than anything else feared in this megalopolis that so often catches fire. In 64 A.D. the most terrible fire that the city has ever known broke out. It is said that it was set on the orders of Nero, in order to overwhelm the Christians who were accused of it. The watchmen, Celer and Theseus, intervene at the risk of their lives. This fictional documentary tells the story of the adventures of these two "firemen" in Rome during the Empire. An astonishing journey through time, the story of the life of men: customs, family, lifestyle, politics, education, leisure.
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.
A documentary film about Syria with its diverse civilizations and history. Where the hero of the film gets lost between his questions about history, culture, and identity, and his attempts to see the story of Syrian history. In the film, the narrator takes us on a journey through Syrian history that diversifies into five basic civilizational shifts, from the agricultural revolution to writing and the emergence of cities to trade until the advent of Christianity and up to the cultural achievement of Islamic civilization.
An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over the world. The film is constructed like a symphony.
与探险家Bruce Parry一道参观婆罗洲和亚马逊地区的部落，并以第一视角作陈述，集中探究狩猎采集者部落的原始生活。在他的这部独角视角的纪录片电影中，对土著部落人羣的生活提出了各种洞悉介绍，以及分享他学到的那些书本上永远也找不到所见所闻。
The History of the Devil charts the evolution the idea of a supreme embodiment of evil from the time of the ancient gods to the present day. This critical analysis provides insightful and structured analysis of the origins of Devil and the way in which it has been used over the centuries.
a collection of different shots comprised a fictionalized, but highly detailed of the america's west. where civilization meets nature in an illusion of history.
The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As we write this, the world is reeling from economic chaos, peak oil, climate change, environmental degradation, and political turmoil. Every day, the headlines re-hash stories of scandal and betrayal of the public trust. We don't have to make outraged demands for the end of the current global system - it seems to be coming apart already. But acts of courage, compassion and altruism abound, even in the most damaged places. By documenting the resilience of the people hit hardest by war and repression, and the heroism of those coming forward to confront the crisis head-on, END:CIV illuminates a way out of this all-consuming madness and into a saner future. Backed by Jensen's narrative, the film calls on us to act as if we truly love this land. The film trips along at a brisk pace, using music... Written by Franklin Lopez
Minecraft but I survive in PARKOUR CIVILIZATION...the entire movie of my journey in parkour civilization where the only way to survive is to parkour...
本片属于PBS 帝国系列（PBS Empires Series）
Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.