视频简介
《安德鲁马尔的世界历史》是BBC于2012年播出的一部关于人类文明历史的电视纪录片。该片共8集，由苏格兰记者及时事评论员安德鲁马尔主持，并由5个导演负责拍摄，每集时长1小时，且收视率均超过2百万。 在此片中，安德鲁马尔踏上了一段穿越7万年世界历史的史诗般的旅程。从人类文明的开始，即非洲游牧民族分散到世界各地并定居成为最早期的农民，一直到二十世纪，包括了其中的帝国兴衰，伟大革命，中世纪时期，启蒙运动和英国的工业革命，讲述了大自然的力量和人类中的天才是如何奠定了我们如今的世界。。American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。
