A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.

本书是英国畅销小说作家肯·福莱特最受欢迎的作品，自1989年问世以来已被翻译成近30种语言，曾登上英、法、德、西、美等各国畅销书排行榜首位，总销售量超过1400万本。12世纪的英格兰，高耸的哥特式教堂的出现象征着一个新时代的开端。小说就以此为背景，以修建世界第一座哥特式大教堂为经，以王位、爵位争夺战为纬，描绘了善恶交战引发的政教冲突、兄弟阋墙，讲述了一段有关勇气、奉献、梦想、爱情、贪婪和复仇的故事。本书被评论家誉为“史诗般的巨著”，真实的历史背景和细致入微的细节描写，让读者仿佛置身混沌的中世纪，与主人公们一起经历了那段惊心动魄的时光。

2009 film by Kevin Macdonald

2008 film by Ron Howard

In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for Afghan freedom fighters in their war against invading Soviets. The trio's successful efforts to finance these covert operations contributes to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.