简介:Chapman and Maclain Way’s energetic telling of one of baseball’s great, unheralded stories is as much about independent spirit as it is about the game. When Portland, Oregon, lost its longtime minor-league affiliate, Bing Russell—who briefly played ball professionally before enjoying a successful Hollywood acting career—bought the territory and formed a single-A team to operate outside the confines of major-league baseball. When they took the field in 1973, the Mavericks—the only independent team in America—started with two strikes against them. What did Deputy Clem from Bonanza know about baseball? Or Portland, for that matter? The only thing uniting his players, recruited at open tryouts, was that no other team wanted them. Skeptics agreed that it could never work.But Bing understood a ballplayer’s dreams, and he understood an audience. His quirky, unkempt castoffs won games, and they won fans, shattering minor-league attendance records. Their spirit was contagious, and during their short reign, the Mavericks—a restaurant owner turned manager, left-handed catcher, and blackballed pitcher among them—brought independence back to baseball and embodied what it was all about: the love of the game.- J.N.
简介:A diplomatic official is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of elite female mandos is assembled to infiltrate a women's prison for a daring rescue.
简介:Antarctica lives in our dreams as the most remote, the most forbidding continent on Planet Earth. It is a huge land covered with ice as thick as three miles, seemingly invulnerable, cold and dark for eight months of the year. Yet Antarctica is also a fragile place, home to an incredible variety of life along its edges, arguably the most stunning, breathtaking and still-pristine place on earth. The one constant is that it is constantly changing, every season, every day, every hour. I've been fortunate to travel to Antarctica many times; most recently with 3D cameras, a first for the continent. The result is our new film, Antarctica: On the Edge.
简介:安娜(Anna Griesebach 饰)和斯蒂芬(弗拉基米尔•布尔拉科夫 Vladimir Burlakov 饰)是一对交往多年的小情侣,两人之间的感情十分要好,一天,他们决定返回安娜阔别已久的家乡度假,在那里,安娜见到了久违的前男友贝恩德(本诺•福尔曼Benno Fuehrmann 饰)。如今的贝恩德也已经“名花有主”了,他正在同一位名叫马克(凯•伊沃•保利兹 Kai Ivo Baulitz 饰)的男子享受着他们的同居生活。家乡的一切都改变了,所有的回忆都是去了依凭,这让安娜有些伤感,更糟糕的是,安娜发现,斯蒂芬似乎渐渐的被马克和贝恩德之间的关系所吸引,而随着一个隐藏多年的秘密渐渐浮出水面,安娜和斯蒂芬之间的关系也面临着前所未有的挑战。