One of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrew's University, investigates the intellectual landscape of the medieval world. 　　In the first programme, Knowledge, he explores the way medieval man understood the world - as a place of mystery, even enchantment. The world was a book written by God. But as the Middle Ages grew to a close, it became a place to be mastered, even exploited. 　　In Sex, he unearths remarkable evidence of the complex passions of medieval men and women. The Church preached hatred of the flesh, promoted the cult of virginity and condemned woman as the sinful heir to Eve. Yet this was the era that gave birth to the idea of romantic, or 'courtly' love. 　　In Belief, the supernatural comes under the spotlight. The medieval dead shared the world with the living: the cult of the saints, encounters with the dead, and visions of the next world were all seen as proof of a two-way traffic between this world and the next. 　　In the final programme, Power, Professor Bartlett lays bare the brutal framework of the medieval class system. Inequality was a part of the natural order: the life of serfs was little better than those of animals, while the knight's code of chivalry was based more on caste solidarity than morality. The class you were born into determined who you were.

One of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrew's University, investigates the intellectual landscape of the medieval world. 　　In the first programme, Knowledge, he explores the way medieval man understood the world - as a place of mystery, even enchantment. The world was a book written by God. But as the Middle Ages grew to a close, it became a place to be mastered, even exploited. 　　In Sex, he unearths remarkable evidence of the complex passions of medieval men and women. The Church preached hatred of the flesh, promoted the cult of virginity and condemned woman as the sinful heir to Eve. Yet this was the era that gave birth to the idea of romantic, or 'courtly' love. 　　In Belief, the supernatural comes under the spotlight. The medieval dead shared the world with the living: the cult of the saints, encounters with the dead, and visions of the next world were all seen as proof of a two-way traffic between this world and the next. 　　In the final programme, Power, Professor Bartlett lays bare the brutal framework of the medieval class system. Inequality was a part of the natural order: the life of serfs was little better than those of animals, while the knight's code of chivalry was based more on caste solidarity than morality. The class you were born into determined who you were.

We are in East Berlin, 1978. It’s summer, three years after Wassilly’s death. Nelly’s boyfriend and Alexei’s father died in a car accident in Russia. Since he is dead, Nelly wants to leave too. Away from the GDR, to leave the grief and the memories behind. To get a fresh start. That should be possible in the West, or so Nelly believes.

We are in East Berlin, 1978. It’s summer, three years after Wassilly’s death. Nelly’s boyfriend and Alexei’s father died in a car accident in Russia. Since he is dead, Nelly wants to leave too. Away from the GDR, to leave the grief and the memories behind. To get a fresh start. That should be possible in the West, or so Nelly believes.

格格巫　　《西方毕竟是西方》（West Is West ）可以看作是《东方就是东方》（East Is East ，1999）的续集，虽然导演换了，但故事依然一脉相承，仍旧是通过生活在英国的巴基斯坦家庭——可汗一家家庭成员的内部矛盾，来反应东西方文化的差异和冲突。上一部的故事发生在1971年，这部的故事发生在1975年，可汗一家从索尔弗徳市搬到了英格兰北部的曼彻斯特，这部的故事主要集中在父亲——60岁的乔治·可汗和最小的儿子——15岁的Sajid身上。Sajid深受父亲的巴基斯坦传统专制和学校混混欺压两重压迫，有成为问题少年的倾向，乔治无奈，决定把他送到生活在巴基斯坦旁遮普的前妻身边，而他抛下前妻已经30多年了……

格格巫　　《西方毕竟是西方》（West Is West ）可以看作是《东方就是东方》（East Is East ，1999）的续集，虽然导演换了，但故事依然一脉相承，仍旧是通过生活在英国的巴基斯坦家庭——可汗一家家庭成员的内部矛盾，来反应东西方文化的差异和冲突。上一部的故事发生在1971年，这部的故事发生在1975年，可汗一家从索尔弗徳市搬到了英格兰北部的曼彻斯特，这部的故事主要集中在父亲——60岁的乔治·可汗和最小的儿子——15岁的Sajid身上。Sajid深受父亲的巴基斯坦传统专制和学校混混欺压两重压迫，有成为问题少年的倾向，乔治无奈，决定把他送到生活在巴基斯坦旁遮普的前妻身边，而他抛下前妻已经30多年了……

该片塑造了一位在逆境中大义至孝的当代大学生形象，着力展示他背母上学、为母治病、打工挣钱、完成学业等一系列感人的故事。《当代孝子》用写实手法讲述了家境贫寒的张尚昀从家乡河南许昌到吉林长春，背母打工求学的酸甜苦辣以及他面对困难自强不息的奋斗精神，同时也刻画了社会各界对他们的帮助和关爱的和谐景象，弘扬了当代社会健康的伦理道德风气。

家庭并不富裕的章少辉考上了长春税务学院，奶奶、章妈和都很高兴，章妈还亲自将儿子送到学校。但几个月后，章妈就因为一场意外车祸落下的脑震荡后遗症半…

历史学家贝特妮·休斯(Bettany Hughes)追述三位伟大的思想家，他们的思想改变了现代世界：卡尔·马克思、弗里德里希·威廉·尼采、西格蒙德·弗洛伊德。他们出生于19世纪，一个既关键又动荡的年代，一个旧体制被打破，政权被大规模的人民起义推翻，宗教权威受到科学挑战的年代。他们的挑战在于分析出在一个快速变化的世界中什么仍旧使我们人之为人。