山姆(托比•马奎尔 Tobey Maguire 饰)到监狱接刑满释放的弟弟汤米(杰克•吉伦哈尔 Jake Gyllenhaal 饰)。回家后,母亲热烈欢迎,但父亲冷嘲热讽。山姆在美军海军陆战队服役,被派去阿富汗,因此这次聚会除了给汤米接风,也是在为山姆送行。父亲总拿完美的山姆跟差劲的汤米相比,令后者愤然离去。山姆依依不舍地跟爱妻格蕾丝(娜塔莉•波特曼 Natalie Portman 饰)和两个女儿告别,奔赴沙场。不幸的是,他所乘坐的黑鹰直升机被击落,他跟下属被俘。慑于阿富汗暴徒的淫威,山姆被迫就范,亲手杀害了下属,此事令他内心充满矛盾。后方以为山姆阵亡,全家人沉浸在悲痛中。痛醒的汤米决心改变自己,慢慢融入了家庭,不但父子关系有所缓和,而且还跟格蕾丝和孩子们相互抚慰,产生了微妙的感情。此时却传来了山姆幸存的消息……
本片翻拍自2004年的影片《血海兄弟》。。Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal.
Part 1: Ruling by the Book
Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum.
Part 2: What a King Should Know
Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia.
Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power
The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance.
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