自由大放送：真实监狱实验

　　影片聚焦1986年NASA的挑战者号航天飞机升空73秒后爆炸解体，造成7位宇航员丧生的灾难。
　　在上世纪70年代，美国人正迫切需要一个振奋人心的消息时，本将成为乘坐宇宙飞船的“第一位黑人”、“第一位女性”和“第一位太空教师”的他们却永远失去了生命，这个不可原谅的错误给美国航 天业甚至是美国政府都带来了无法弥补的信任危机。

　　Ancient Worlds is about people and places, politics and economics, art and war, trade and technology, but above all it’s the story of the painful birth and difficult growth of a radical idea first tried and tested some six thousand years ago, and which we are still struggling with today; civilisation. Civilisation has not come easily; it’s something we’ve had to fight hard to achieve, and even harder to maintain, and the greatest threats to it have come from our own talents for destruction. But when we’ve managed to get it right, the benefits have been enormous.
　　When we talk about the ancient world we tend to think of rare and exotic artefacts or the monumental remains of epic architecture; but these are just the empty shells that got left behind when the tide of history turned! The living creatures, the civilisations, that once inhabited these shells were rarely if ever static or stately; they were dynamic, chaotic, and always threatening to spin out of control, because civilisation is based on an improbable idea; that strangers can live and work together in dense urban settings, forging new allegiances that replace the natural ties of family, clan or tribe. It’s an idea we’re still coming to terms with today, but one of the best ways to understand the challenges that are involved is to look at how our ancestors tackled them the first time around.
　　From ancient Iraq to Imperial Rome, Ancient Worlds examines how our ancestors struggled with the levers of religion and politics, art and culture, war and diplomacy, technology and trade in order to keep the complex machinery of their civilisations turning over. Their insights and blind-spots, their breakthroughs and dead ends, their triumphs and disasters are the milestones on the long and winding road that leads directly from their ancient to our modern world.

　　澳大利亚的鲨鱼湾，有机体创造了空气和大气层，是美丽的蓝色星球具备了生物生存的基本条件。大约40亿年前，迄今仍存在于鲨鱼湾的活化石细菌叠层石，作为地球生命的祖先横空出世。经过漫长的繁衍与进化，数以万计的物种从海洋走到陆地，飞上蓝天。我们跟随着摄制组的镜头，见证了原始生命的诞生，以及大自然对物种爆发的自控与调节。然而时至今日，多达70亿的人类统领地球，站在生物链金字塔的最顶端。我们贪得无厌地一次次伸出双手向大地、海洋索取，埋藏千百万年的矿藏被无情掘出，原本自由自在游弋海中的鱼类遭到过度捕捞。
　　生活质量不断提高，地球的生存环境却逐步恶化，该说这是聪明还是愚昧……

　　见证太阳西沉，令人安心的阳光消失，大地换上一片死寂之后之动物必须面对的恐怖情景。黑夜来临，大自然将显示出最残忍的一面。神秘怪兽出来寻找残弱之士，任何东西都可能成为猎物。想要生存，就必须机灵、快速，加上好运，否则你将逃不过黑夜杀机的魔爪。