艾莉·爱罗维（茱迪·福斯特 饰）自幼就对无线电通讯情有独钟。长大后，她成为一名天文学家，其项目内容为接收外太空信号。她希望能借此找到宇宙其他文明的存在。天才的理想得到的却是投资者的冷眼相看，幸好有神秘人帮助艾莉继续工作。 一次偶然的机会，艾莉收到了来自织女星的频率信号，似乎证明了艾莉一直以来的工作是正确的。但这带来的不是她个人事业的成功，而是政治、社会、宗教、国家各个角度的矛盾与讨论。深陷这一切暴风中心的艾莉，更要面对与神职人士帕尔默·乔丝（马修·麦康纳 饰）的感情纠葛。 个人与世界，真相与现实，艾莉面临着远远超越学术范围的挑战。
讲述一组科研人员在深海中的实验室遭遇强地震，实验室遭到重创，氧气不足的他们必须尽快突破重重阻碍到达逃生舱。而海底10公里下面，似乎有什么恐怖的生物在追踪他们……
获得第24届圣丹斯电影节剧情片类评委会大奖的《雷管》，讲述的是四位合作者出于兴趣发明了一台查错仪器，却意外地发现这台仪器拥有强大的商业价值，最终四人相互争斗的局面。《雷管》是导演什恩-卡鲁斯(ShaneCaruth)首次执导的剧情长片，该片由他自己投资，并身兼编剧、导演、主演数职，体现出独立电影的“DIY”精神。另外，令人津津乐道的是该片不足7000美元的超低制作成本，只相当于一辆富康车的价钱……
用詹姆斯·韦伯望远镜拍摄遥远星系，栩栩如生的照片令人浮想联翩。这部纪录片记录了这台望远镜从开发到推出的历史过程。
纳斯卡 (NASCAR) 试图实现其领导人吉姆·弗朗斯 (Jim France) 的童年梦想，即驾驶一辆赛车参加具有历史意义的勒芒24小时耐力赛。
Youthful ingenuity is on display in this new competition series that features teams of inventive students tasked with designing, building, and testing new contraptions to vie for the title of Shop Class Champs. In each episode, they’ll present their work to a panel of experts who will rate their projects based on engineering, design, and the final test of the build.
In the first episode of Project Binky, we take a rotten old Austin Mini and strip it down to a bare shell. We then take an angle grinder to it and cut it to pieces. It's only then that the customised rebuilding process starts. We're trying to create one of the fastest Minis on the planet. We're going to rebuild it with the engine and running gear from a Toyota Celica ST185 GT4. Or at least that's the plan. Whether it comes off or not is another matter. We're filming this as it happens so what you see is only a few weeks behind where we're actually at so we're not sure yet whether we can do it. That's kind of the fun though. Stick with us through the highs and the lows of the project. Hopefully it'll be worth the agony and cash. Feel free to share it far and wide!
Impossibly large structures... Teams with a mission to move them! This is the kind of daunting challenge facing teams of building movers from the UK, America and Canada.
Today's high-end high-performance Supercars are an amazing combination of art and science. Super Car Build finds out how they do it and goes behind the scenes at some of the most legendary automotive marques to discover the hidden engineering secrets and keys to each machine's success.
The stories behind the iconic structures and engineering feats that have shaped and defined our nation and our world.
Coinciding with the release of the remastered original episodes of The Secret Life Of Machines, Tim Hunkin began a self-produced spiritual successor called The Secret Life of Components. It explores some of the individual parts that so often make up the appliances and machines that were the focus of the original series. The weekly episodes included what Hunkin has learned through his experience with the component, along with many models for demonstration and examples from his amusement machines and other works.
The true story of the battle to build the world's first supersonic airliner. A tale of genius, Cold War espionage, and an whole new kind of jet plane.
