James Benning’s first film called The United States of America was a 1975 trip across the country, capturing its scenery through a car windshield. This second one also crisscrosses the nation, but without a car, carving it up instead into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming. The names of the places are nondescript, but the images attached to them are anything but, immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between. As we move from A to Z, the images coalesce into a portrait of today’s USA, tracing out its fault lines almost in passing: fenced-off facilities, a river bed running dry, factories and refineries, run-down streets and gas stations, a camp under a bridge. The past is there too, seeping up through the songs and speeches that sporadically pierce the background noise or the motifs that evoke a whole career; the clouds, trains and cabins are stand-ins for films, not just states. As always, there’s time for more abstract thoughts too: each image may stand for a state, but representativity is slippery. Which state is more cinematic than the rest?

　　欧洲有些国家作为自然历史电影的拍摄地经常被忽视。《欧洲隐密珍宝》选择了四个拥有出色自然美景和数量惊人的迷人野生动物的国家。
　　第1集 德国（Germany）
　　第2集 伊比利亚半岛（Iberia）
　　第3集 波兰（Poland）
　　第4集 希腊（Greece）
　　解说：Chloe Massey
　　执行制片人：Allison Bean, Debbie Hinnigan, Andrew Zikking
　　制作：Off the Fence B.V.

　　拥有超能力的刺客阿凯追踪一名杀手来到曼谷，复仇任务演变为从古老的威胁中拯救世界的战斗。

　　A woman finds herself locked in a stark room and given challenges.

　　在这部系列纪录片中，被判蓄意谋杀罪的死刑犯透过第一手陈述，诉说自己犯下的罪行。