BBC最新纪录片，讲述地球的力量如何改变了人类的历史。2010年1月19日首播，共播出了5集：'Water'，'Deep Earth', 'Wind', 'Fire'，'Human Planet'。节目中，Iain Stewart教授带领观众探究几个世纪以来，地质学、地理学和气候是如何影响人类生活的。 　　我们的星球拥有惊人的力量，但却很少在教科书中被提起。这个系列节目第一次通过电视展现地球的神奇力量对人类发展的影响。节目将历史故事的讲述和炫目的摄影镜头紧密结合，给我们呈现一幅原汁原味的人类历史图景。 　　Iain Stewart tells the epic story of how the planet has shaped our history. With 　　spectacular images, surprising stories and a compelling narrative, the series discovers the central role played in human history by four different planetary forces. 　　Episode 1: Water 　　Professor Iain Stewart continues his epic exploration of how the planet has shaped human history. This time he explores our complex relationship with water. Visiting spectacular locations in Iceland, the Middle East and India, Iain shows how control over water has been central to human existence. He takes a precarious flight in a motorised paraglider to experience the cycle of freshwater that we depend on, discovers how villagers in the foothills of the Himalayas have built a living bridge to cope with the monsoon, and visits Egypt to reveal the secret of the pharaohs' success. Throughout history, success has depended on our ability to adapt to and control constantly shifting sources of water. 　　Episode 2: Deep Earth 　　Iain Stewart tells the epic story of how the planet has shaped our history. With spectacular images, surprising stories and a compelling narrative, the series discovers the central role played in human history by four different planetary forces. In this first episode, Iain explores the relationship between the deep Earth and the development of human civilisation. He visits an extraordinary crystal cave in Mexico, drops down a hole in the Iranian desert and crawls through seven-thousand-year-old tunnels in Israel. His exploration reveals that throughout history, our ancestors were strangely drawn to fault lines, areas which connect the surface with the deep interior of the planet. These fault lines gave access to important resources, but also brought with them great danger. 　　Episode 3: Wind 　　Professor Iain Stewart continues his epic exploration of how the planet has shaped human history. Iain sets sail on one of the fastest racing boats ever built to explore the story of our turbulent relationship with the wind. Travelling to iconic locations including the Sahara desert, the coast of West Africa and the South Pacific, Iain discovers how people have exploited the power of the wind for thousands of years. The wind is a force which at first sight appears chaotic. But the patterns that lie within the atmosphere have shaped the destiny of continents, and lie at the heart of some of the greatest turning points in human history. 　　Episode 4: Fire 　　Professor Iain Stewart continues his epic exploration of how the planet has shaped human history. Iain explores man's relationship with fire. He begins by embarking on an extraordinary encounter with this terrifying force of nature - a walk right through the heart of a raging fire. Fire has long been our main source of energy and Iain shows how this meant that the planet played a crucial role in Britain's industrial revolution, whilst holding China's development back. Along the way he dives in a mysterious lake in Oregon, climbs a glacier of salt, crawls through an extraordinary cave in Iran and takes a therapeutic bath in crude oil. 　　Episode 5: Human Planet 　　Series in which Professor Iain Stewart looks at how four geological forces have shaped human history. He explores the most recently established force, humans. It's easy to think of the human impact on the planet as a negative one, but as Iain discovers, this isn't always the case. It is clear that humans have unprecedented control over many of the planet's geological cycles; the question is, how will the human race use this power?

地球在四十五亿年的形成中一直是个谜：我们的星球是如何变化的，为什么这样变化？被发现的线索不仅存在火山峡谷中，而且存在我们每个人体内。从打嗝的现象,再到我们把橄榄球投掷出去，人类身心的怪癖全都追溯到过去的数百万年，甚至数亿年地球上巨大转变。我们体内的答案是小行星碰撞、全球生态大量灭亡和漂移的大陆，最终揭示地球的过去和我们自己的史诗般故事。

凯蒂·凯利和约翰·凯利准备安定下来生个孩子，可他们用尽了一切方法却始终无法如愿，为了实现这个美好的愿望，他们无所不用其极，却任然经受着不孕不育的痛苦，他们的婚姻也随之承受着终极考验，他们能如愿吗？

凯蒂·凯利和约翰·凯利准备安定下来生个孩子，可他们用尽了一切方法却始终无法如愿，为了实现这个美好的愿望，他们无所不用其极，却任然经受着不孕不育的痛苦，他们的婚姻也随之承受着终极考验，他们能如愿吗？

这是一部描绘非线型历史的神话故事。 　　人类大战持续了将近50年，世界由此分化为大亚细亚连邦共和国和欧共体两大阵营。持久战结束后，大亚细亚连邦共和国终于取得了胜利，并统治了欧洲和亚洲部分大陆，但战利品并不可观，除了土地的荒废，人心的慌乱外，还残留了很多战争后遗症。比如一些在战场上使用过的杀伤性化学武器、细菌武器、核武器等等。 　　这一情形告诉我们拯救人类、拯救社会、拯救世界刻不容缓，人类处于即将崩溃的状态。怎样去面对这一切？怎样去寻找重生的道路？社会呼唤有志之士勇敢地战出来给这个被战争荒废了世界寻找一个公道。在这样危急的时刻，东博士提倡“完整地制造出人类所有器官的新造细胞”理论，这一理论在学术会上得到了认可。东博士的爱妻绿已久病卧床不起，为了把妻子从死神手中夺回来，东博士也必须完成这个研究。但社会保健部门从研究初期开始就企图独吞这一成果，为了顾全大局东博士在不断让步的情况下，着手开始这项研究。在东博士的呕心沥血的研究下，新造人类终于诞生。但原本是以拯救人类为目的制造的“新造细胞”到头来却于人类为敌，把人类赶进血的世界……

本片刻画了一个疯狂的女科学家和她创造的三个“精液驱动”机器人，其中一个机器人在外出采集精液的途中开始探索世界。（摘自果壳）

剧情以未来想像的年代作为背景，亚细亚联邦共和国与欧洲联合两大阵营战争五十年，亚细亚联邦共和国虽然终获得胜利，但得到的领土却是布满化学武器与辐射污染的荒芜大地，亚细亚联邦共和国的军政府亟欲找出细胞快速重生繁殖的方法，负责该项重大实验的东博士，获得军事政府的支持，但是他却距离研究成功仅此一步，某天天外降临的神秘力量促使完结他的细胞重生研究，但也让从四处收集来的战乱牺牲者尸体重返人世，这些让人类无法接受的重生人遭到无情的驱逐灭绝，因而让重生人产生对人类的厌恶感，进而向人类宣战，就在此时东博士的独子东铁也战死沙场，伤心欲觉的东博士不顾一切后果，将爱子放置入让死尸重生的实验池，死而复生之后再穿上上月博士研究多时的强力生化甲胄，就这样拥有易于常人力量的东铁也，为了寻回遭重生人首领"挟持"的母亲，和重生人机械兵团展开决一死战

这是一部描绘非线型历史的神话故事。 　　人类大战持续了将近50年，世界由此分化为大亚细亚连邦共和国和欧共体两大阵营。持久战结束后，大亚细亚连邦共和国终于取得了胜利，并统治了欧洲和亚洲部分大陆，但战利品并不可观，除了土地的荒废，人心的慌乱外，还残留了很多战争后遗症。比如一些在战场上使用过的杀伤性化学武器、细菌武器、核武器等等。 　　这一情形告诉我们拯救人类、拯救社会、拯救世界刻不容缓，人类处于即将崩溃的状态。怎样去面对这一切？怎样去寻找重生的道路？社会呼唤有志之士勇敢地战出来给这个被战争荒废了世界寻找一个公道。在这样危急的时刻，东博士提倡“完整地制造出人类所有器官的新造细胞”理论，这一理论在学术会上得到了认可。东博士的爱妻绿已久病卧床不起，为了把妻子从死神手中夺回来，东博士也必须完成这个研究。但社会保健部门从研究初期开始就企图独吞这一成果，为了顾全大局东博士在不断让步的情况下，着手开始这项研究。在东博士的呕心沥血的研究下，新造人类终于诞生。但原本是以拯救人类为目的制造的“新造细胞”到头来却于人类为敌，把人类赶进血的世界……

Part of the artificial-creature series encompassing Der Golem (1914 and 1920), Alraune (1918, 1928, 1930) and Metropolis (1926), 'Homunculus' was the most popular serial in Germany during World War I even influencing the dress of the fashionableset in Berlin. Foenss, a Danish star, is the perfect creature manufactured in a laboratory by Kuehne. Having discovered his origins, that he has no 'soul' and is incapable of love, he revenges himself on mankind, instigating revolutions and becoming a monstruos but beautiful tyrant, relentlessly pursued by his creator-father who seeks to rectify his mistake. 　　Man’s attempts to create artificial life have long been a staple of cinema science fiction. That plot device achieved a high level of sophistication with director Otto Rippert’s Homunculus series. No grotesque pastiche of human body parts like his notorious counterpart Frankenstein’s monster, Homunculus is the beloved “test-tube child” of a German scientist who lacks only one thing—the capacity to feel love. The film seen here is preserved from a decomposing 35mm nitrate print with tinting and toning that may be a condensed version of the original six-episode series. Structurally, the story (with Italian intertitles) is still intact, and the combination of decomposing nitrate with the remains of the original colors creates an otherworldly beauty that serves to heighten the drama. Homunculus was preserved with funding from The Louis B. Mayer Foundation.

于2001年10月开始放送的人造人009系列TV动画第三作，共51话的彩色动画，通称平成版。 其中1-27话为バトルアライブ（Battle Alive）篇，28-48话为第二章 地上より永遠に（从现在到永远），49-51话为完結編〜Conclusion God's War〜序章〜。此外另有总集篇47.5话黄泉的群像。到48话为止即可视为完整的一个故事，关于完结篇之后会另外详细介绍。 平成版是以忠实于漫画原作为方针制作的，以原作的起点“诞生篇”为开头、“地下帝国黄泉篇”为动画结局，中间则包含了其他原作知名中篇及若干短篇改编而成的动画。 但由于动画播出时的2001年与原作开始的年代设定（1960年代）相比，世界局势发生了巨大的变化，所以动画相应地改动了一些设定，比如001-004号的“第一世代”设定就是原作所没有的。