视频简介
《生命》是由BBC制作的十集系列纪录片，从2009年10月12日开始在BBC电视台播出。本片制作共耗时四年，全部以高清方式摄制。每集50分钟，外加10分钟的拍摄花絮，总共60分钟。根据《泰晤士报》报道，本系列片耗资一千万英镑，不过BBC官方并未证实这一数字。2009年是达尔文诞辰二百周年，也是《物种起源》发表150周年。为了进行纪念，本片力图展现自然界缤纷物种的多样性，和它们为适应环境而进化出的各种神奇生存本领。。Katherine of Alexandria, brought up as a nomad and living in the desert, was aged just 11 when Emperor Maxentius saw her whilst out on patrol. Consumed by her beauty, impudence and uncanny talent for languages, he abducted the child, killing her family. The slaughter was witnessed by her young friend, Constantine, who would later become Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He never lost hope of finding Katherine. As a young woman, Katherine refused to submit to Maxentius' offers of marriage and she continually denounced his brutal enforcement of pagan religion upon the masses. Still obsessed with her beauty, Maxentius brought Katherine before 50 of Rome's finest scholars in an open court in Alexandria, where she eloquently demolished their arguments. When Constantine learned of Katherine's whereabouts and imprisonment at the hands of Maxentius, he led his army from York in a desperate bid to save her.。
