著名纪录片导演亚当·柯蒂斯（Adam Curtis）用BBC过去四十年阿富汗及沙特阿拉伯的新闻素材整理而成的纪录片《苦湖》（Bitter Lake）在BBC网站上线，分析美国、俄国、英国、沙特阿拉伯及阿富汗之间的关系以及“ISIS”的兴起，一时成为大家的话题。

(copy from imdb) In the sixteenth century, Spain occupies Flanders, an Inquisition enforces the faith. Aging writer and philosopher, Zénon Ligre, comes to Bruges using a false name and papers to serve as a physician to the poor, establishing a clinic and steam bath. His methods and opinions are outside the mainstream, but he has the protection and friendship of the local Prior. Zénon, an aristocrat with a degree in canon law, lives humbly. He learns of bacchanals under Masonic signs involving monks and women, and he warns those involved. The Prior is dying, and he urges Zénon to flee to England. Zénon burns his writing. Will he leave or will he face ecclesiastical accusers and, perhaps, the stake?