本片是一部美国纪录片片，由Robin Dashwood导演，由凯瑞·莎勒/Martin May/Achim Buch主演。
剧情简介：Having lived as mobile foragers for 99 percent of our time on Earth, why did humans set out on the road to civilization? How did they create villages, towns, cities and states, and establish the blueprint for the modern world? This series identifies four cornerstones of civilization – war, religion, cities and trade – and explores each in the context of a different location. Criss-crossing the globe, camera crews travel to Mexico, Guatemala, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, India, Pakistan, Oman, Morocco, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. They record the latest archeological discoveries, test new theories and uncover original information.
Drama reconstructions and computer graphics are used to visualize the lost world of the first civilizations. In each episode, the ancient story is also complemented by a modern-day analog, with an expert interviewee connecting the dots between past and present. The idea is to show how our ancestors were motivated by the same impulses that persist today: the inevitability of war, a need for religion, the lure of the city, a love of trade. Their story is our story.
外文名：First Civilizations Season 1
别名：Aux origines des civilisations / Der Ursprung der Zivilisationen
类型：纪录片
地区：美国
导演：Robin Dashwood / Tomasz Cebula
编剧：Tomasz Cebula
演员：凯瑞·莎勒 / Martin May / Achim Buch / Vijak Bayani / Christina von Weltzien / Michael Bideller / 卡拉·贝克尔 / 蒂娜·埃施曼 / Christian Senger / Jens Wendland / Erik Schäffler / Kai Henrik Möller
