Alastair Sooke takes an in-depth look at the art of the Roman Empire.

Alastair Sooke takes an in-depth look at the art of the Roman Empire.

Meet the Romans 　　Professor Mary Beard looks beyond the stories of emperors, armies, guts and gore to meet the everyday people at the heart of Ancient Rome's vast empire We still live in the shadow of ancient Rome - a city at the heart of a vast empire that stretched from Scotland to Afghanistan, dominating the West for over 700 years. Professor Mary Beard puts aside the stories of emperors and armies, guts and gore, to meet the real Romans living at the heart of it all.

《古罗马人》是BBC2的一个6 x 30的系列纪录片。Adam Hart-Davis 将和我们一同探讨古罗马人对于现在的生活的影响，从乳罩到桥，从排序法到餐桌上的刀叉，从混凝土结构到避孕套，古罗马人带给英国人的发明和创新改变了他们的建筑风格及生活的方式。在他们逗留的近400年间，他们建造了三十座城镇，留下了迷人的复杂的技术。 　　 　　Programme 1: 奢华的生活 　　Programme 2: 入侵 　　Programme 3: 城镇和乡村 　　Programme 4: 帝国之动脉 　　Programme 5: 帝国的优势 　　Programme 6: 那个时代的高峰

Levon remembers his childhood in Turkey: love, political brutality. A bloody comedy. Also a modern crime story about Armenian terrorists and Turkish secret agents, about Kurds tragedy. 　　Askarian’s most recent project is another meditation on the artist in exile. Like the filmmaker Avetik and the real-life composer Komitas from his previous films, Levon - a writer of Armenian extraction now living in Rotterdam - is caught between memories of homeland and the realities of contemporary life. From his Dutch domicile, Levon reminisces about his brother-in-law (a hairdresser who robs dead Turks), a brilliant Kurdish musician, a red-bearded executioner, a seventeen-year-old girl with chestnut-colored skin, and a Turkish Apollo with eight wives who likes to bury himself in hot ash. His memory is also populated by beautiful thoroughbred horses, stray dogs, camel drivers, soldiers, and Turkish policemen. These poetic, almost surrealist scenes of magic love and political cruelty are contrasted with the reality of present day Rotterdam, presented in the guise of a modern crime story with Armenian terrorists and a Kurdish tragedy. 　　"Every year, we look at thousands of films and when one shines above the rest, as ON THE OLD ROMAN ROAD did, it is indeed a pleasure. Don Askarian, recently honored with a Harvard Film Archive retrospective, is considered the greatest living Armenian filmmaker. In Askarian's latest film, which he describes as “a bloody comedy”, a man in exile remembers a childhood of magic and mayhem, complete with grave robbers, brutal assassinations, horses, and men buried in hot ash. As striking a visual feast as one can find, this is an extravagant and crystalline treasure, a film whose rewards far outweigh its considerable demands."

清代乾隆年问，朝廷用一万三千两黄金铸造了一套大小一样可发出不同声音的金钟。辛亥革命后，清皇室用这套价值连城的稀世之宝，向创业银行抵押贷款，后因清皇室无力偿还本息，金钟归创业银行所有。创业银行经理潘文达密令其未来的女婿、襄理杨建兰保管金钟。《都报》以头版头条披露此事，一时间闹得满城风雨。奉军阀张大帅之命，北平城防司令韩守仁勾结创业银行协理王明道四处摸底，要搞到金钟。韩、王密谋在同和居请客，逼潘文达、杨建兰交出金钟。但潘、杨矢口否认，韩、王也无可奈何。潘文达让杨建兰以到天津接潘美云完婚为名，把金钟转移至天津分行。“七•七”事变爆发，潘文达转至重庆，行前，他任命杨建兰为天津分行经理，把金钟之事委托给他。此时，日本特务已经知道金钟在天津，王明道也摇身一变成了汉奸，被委任为中国联合准备银行天津分行总裁，韩守仁就任伪天津保安司令。他们勾结日本宪兵队木村飞雄，逼杨建兰限期交出金钟。杨建兰派司机孙家俊去上海，用私人电台请示金钟处理的办法。潘的回电仅一字“毁”。杨建兰深知金钟是珍贵文物，谁毁掉它，谁是中华民族的罪人。他冒着风险把金钟藏进家里煤库。日本宪兵队搜查银行、住宅一无所获，扫兴而归。抗战胜利后，潘文达死去，杨建兰本想把金钟交给国家，但追查之风又阵阵传来，昔日的稽查处长张德武当上国民党特派员，汉奸王道明得到重用，他们勾结古董商，密谋倒卖文物，并以“重大资敌嫌疑”封闭银行，大肆搜查。但搜出的16只大桶，只是16桶煤油。解放军兵临天津城下，张、韩以杨建兰之子杨莘莘“煽动学潮”罪逮捕，判以死刑，要挟杨建兰交出金钟。杨建兰新仇IEI'恨涌上心头，断然拒绝了他们的要求。杨莘莘牺牲了，金钟却保存了下来。解放了，杨建兰将这历经艰辛保存了几十年的金钟，完整无损地交给了人民政府。

这个带有一定剧情的系列纪录片通过罗马时期的六个关键转折点描述古罗马的兴起和衰亡的故事,但它立足于精确的、广泛的历史研究，向我们展现了那些贪婪的、淫荡的和野心勃勃的人如凯撒、尼禄和康斯坦丁，当然也正是他们促使了罗马帝国的形成。同时它还描述了罗马怎么毁灭迦太基，被凯撒征服，又怎么镇压犹太人的反叛，转向基督教。 　　这是一部混合着剧情和史实的纪录片，它使得我们准确的了解罗马帝国是怎样形成、达到鼎盛以及最终不可避免的走向衰亡的过程。 　　01: 凯撒 　　02: 尼禄 　　03: 反叛 　　04: 革命 　　05: 康斯坦丁 　　06: 罗马的衰亡

这个带有一定剧情的系列纪录片通过罗马时期的六个关键转折点描述古罗马的兴起和衰亡的故事,但它立足于精确的、广泛的历史研究，向我们展现了那些贪婪的、淫荡的和野心勃勃的人如凯撒、尼禄和康斯坦丁，当然也正是他们促使了罗马帝国的形成。同时它还描述了罗马怎么毁灭迦太基，被凯撒征服，又怎么镇压犹太人的反叛，转向基督教。 　　这是一部混合着剧情和史实的纪录片，它使得我们准确的了解罗马帝国是怎样形成、达到鼎盛以及最终不可避免的走向衰亡的过程。 　　01: 凯撒 　　02: 尼禄 　　03: 反叛 　　04: 革命 　　05: 康斯坦丁 　　06: 罗马的衰亡

Exploring the role played by extraordinary women in creating, ruling and transforming the Roman Empire, whose influence was felt everywhere from the power struggles of court to the distant provinces.

Exploring the role played by extraordinary women in creating, ruling and transforming the Roman Empire, whose influence was felt everywhere from the power struggles of court to the distant provinces.