提到上杉的这个姓氏，人们第一反应往往是军神“上杉谦信”，或是他的侄儿丰臣五大老之一的“上杉景胜”，却几乎无人会想起这部剧的主人公 - 上杉鹰山。确实，就算是在日本人中，时至今日，他也不算一个十分知名的人物，因为他的身上不具备那种历史人物的“偶像气质”。 　　两任美国总统，J.F.肯尼迪和B.克林顿访问日本时，都将上杉鹰山，列为他们最佩服的日本政治家，以至于日本的媒体当时都惊呼“上杉鹰山是谁？” 　　上杉鹰山是米泽藩第九代当主（第一代为上杉谦信）。上杉家由于关原之战的战略失败和之后一些储嗣的问题，造成领地从关原之前的一百二十万石下降到十五万石。收入缩水85%但家臣人数和支出并未相应减少，造成米泽藩财政赤字大增，到鹰山这一代时已接近崩溃的边缘。 　　鹰山所要作的是打破旧思维，励精图治实行改革。但改革无论在什么时代，都会遭遇保守势力的阻力，且看鹰山如何将其一一化解。

20世纪初，时任法国驻中国龙州、云南府(昆明)领事方苏雅(Auguste François)意识到，他在中国所看到的一切是他的法国同胞所不知道的，而且有可能即将消失。于是，他结合详细记录、照片、影像和实物收藏，制作了真实详尽的报告。在影像中，方苏雅记录下了当时中国的街头日常生活，以及游行、节庆、葬礼、传统戏剧表演等事件。 　　1905年5月，L. Gaumont & Cie公司的目录刊登了约60个镜头画面，并评价：“这是隐藏在真实中国背后的面纱。这是对至今仍然鲜为人知的东方风俗的一瞥。”

20世纪初，时任法国驻中国龙州、云南府(昆明)领事方苏雅(Auguste François)意识到，他在中国所看到的一切是他的法国同胞所不知道的，而且有可能即将消失。于是，他结合详细记录、照片、影像和实物收藏，制作了真实详尽的报告。在影像中，方苏雅记录下了当时中国的街头日常生活，以及游行、节庆、葬礼、传统戏剧表演等事件。 　　1905年5月，L. Gaumont & Cie公司的目录刊登了约60个镜头画面，并评价：“这是隐藏在真实中国背后的面纱。这是对至今仍然鲜为人知的东方风俗的一瞥。”

Martin Luther is born into a world dominated by the Catholic Church. For the keenly spiritual Luther, the Church's promise of salvation is irresistible. Caught in a thunderstorm and terrified by the possibility of imminent death, he vows to become a monk. But after entering the monastery, Luther becomes increasingly doubtful that the Church can actually offer him salvation. His views crystallize further when he travels to Rome and finds the capital of Catholicism swamped in corruption. Wracked by despair, Luther finds release in the pages of the Bible, discovering that it is not the Church, but his own individual faith that will guarantee his salvation. With this revelation, he turns on the Church. He attacks its practice of selling Indulgences in his famous 95 Theses, putting himself on an irreversible path to conflict with the most powerful institution of the day. The Catholic Church uses all of its might to try to silence Luther, including accusations of heresy and excommunication. Protected by his local ruler, Frederick the Wise, Luther continues to write radical critiques of the Church. In the process, he develops a new system of faith that places the freedom of the individual believer above the rituals of the Church. Aided by the newly invented printing press, his ideas spread rapidly. He is called before the German imperial parliament in the city of Worms and told he must recant. Risking torture and execution, Luther refuses, proclaiming his inalienable right to believe what he wishes. His stand becomes a legend that inspires revolution across Europe, overturning the thousand-year old hegemony of the Church. But as the reformation expands into a movement for social freedom, Luther finds himself overwhelmed by the pace of change, and is left vainly protesting that his followers should be concerning themselves with God. 　　- Written by Anonymous

Martin Luther is born into a world dominated by the Catholic Church. For the keenly spiritual Luther, the Church's promise of salvation is irresistible. Caught in a thunderstorm and terrified by the possibility of imminent death, he vows to become a monk. But after entering the monastery, Luther becomes increasingly doubtful that the Church can actually offer him salvation. His views crystallize further when he travels to Rome and finds the capital of Catholicism swamped in corruption. Wracked by despair, Luther finds release in the pages of the Bible, discovering that it is not the Church, but his own individual faith that will guarantee his salvation. With this revelation, he turns on the Church. He attacks its practice of selling Indulgences in his famous 95 Theses, putting himself on an irreversible path to conflict with the most powerful institution of the day. The Catholic Church uses all of its might to try to silence Luther, including accusations of heresy and excommunication. Protected by his local ruler, Frederick the Wise, Luther continues to write radical critiques of the Church. In the process, he develops a new system of faith that places the freedom of the individual believer above the rituals of the Church. Aided by the newly invented printing press, his ideas spread rapidly. He is called before the German imperial parliament in the city of Worms and told he must recant. Risking torture and execution, Luther refuses, proclaiming his inalienable right to believe what he wishes. His stand becomes a legend that inspires revolution across Europe, overturning the thousand-year old hegemony of the Church. But as the reformation expands into a movement for social freedom, Luther finds himself overwhelmed by the pace of change, and is left vainly protesting that his followers should be concerning themselves with God. 　　- Written by Anonymous

The Bolshevik revolution, the cold war, and the collapse of the Soviet Union defined the history of the twentieth century. With such a past, what does it mean to be Russian today? Robin Hessman's lovingly crafted documentary, My Perestroika, adopts the idea of the “everyman story,” suggesting that the unheralded lives of the last generation of Soviets to grow up behind the iron curtain hold the key to understanding the contradictions of modern Russia from the inside out. 　　Crafted during five years of researching and shooting, and based on almost a decade of living in Russia in the 1990s, Hessman's film poetically interweaves an extraordinary trove of home movies, Soviet propaganda films, and intimate access to five schoolmates whose linked, but very different, histories offer a moving portrait of newly middle-class Russians living lives they could never have imagined when they were growing up.

The Bolshevik revolution, the cold war, and the collapse of the Soviet Union defined the history of the twentieth century. With such a past, what does it mean to be Russian today? Robin Hessman's lovingly crafted documentary, My Perestroika, adopts the idea of the “everyman story,” suggesting that the unheralded lives of the last generation of Soviets to grow up behind the iron curtain hold the key to understanding the contradictions of modern Russia from the inside out. 　　Crafted during five years of researching and shooting, and based on almost a decade of living in Russia in the 1990s, Hessman's film poetically interweaves an extraordinary trove of home movies, Soviet propaganda films, and intimate access to five schoolmates whose linked, but very different, histories offer a moving portrait of newly middle-class Russians living lives they could never have imagined when they were growing up.

在1563年特伦托会议（Council of Trent）的最后一次会议上，梵蒂冈神学家们坚决支持使用神圣图像和圣像，以对抗宗教改革对偶像崇拜的指控，这导致欧洲对美术的投资激增，包括首次囊括了女性艺术家。索福尼斯巴·安圭索拉（Sofonisba Anguissola）是第一位职业女性宫廷画家，她创作了大量描绘欧洲最杰出的贵族和政要的作品。但在她的整个职业生涯中，她一次又一次地回到最让她着迷的主题：她自己。《反宗教改革》是一部非传统的论文式纪录片，它厘清了政治、宗教、历史和自画像的线索，引导电影人审视她个人的当代电影实践。《反宗教改革》是对信仰和动态影像的一次深刻的个人化中介，试图将实验电影置于神学和宗教领域；这是一次尚未得到充分探索但亟待取得成果的和解。

优生学，在美国二十世纪上半叶一度是人人追捧的显学。在冷泉实验室，达文波特借助他的优生学理论和调查报告，游说美国财团和政府，用智商测试，对人口进行分层，不合格的人会被强行实施绝育手术。从二十年代起，美国政府对东欧和犹太移民抬高门槛，背后的逻辑也是出自优生学的遗传理论，唯恐北欧正统的移民基因被“污染”，此举在三十年代导致大批欧洲犹太人走投无路，死于纳粹集中营。这套基于种族净化理念的优生学，也被德国纳粹继承，并发扬光大。不过，大萧条造成的全面失业破除了优生神话，好莱坞影片《明日的孩子》、以及强行绝育的黑暗内幕的曝光，加上二战末期纳粹灭绝营的恐怖图景的传播，使得美国的优生学在四十年代后逐渐式微，但各州的强行绝育法律直到六七十年代，才被废止。

在1563年特伦托会议（Council of Trent）的最后一次会议上，梵蒂冈神学家们坚决支持使用神圣图像和圣像，以对抗宗教改革对偶像崇拜的指控，这导致欧洲对美术的投资激增，包括首次囊括了女性艺术家。索福尼斯巴·安圭索拉（Sofonisba Anguissola）是第一位职业女性宫廷画家，她创作了大量描绘欧洲最杰出的贵族和政要的作品。但在她的整个职业生涯中，她一次又一次地回到最让她着迷的主题：她自己。《反宗教改革》是一部非传统的论文式纪录片，它厘清了政治、宗教、历史和自画像的线索，引导电影人审视她个人的当代电影实践。《反宗教改革》是对信仰和动态影像的一次深刻的个人化中介，试图将实验电影置于神学和宗教领域；这是一次尚未得到充分探索但亟待取得成果的和解。