By filming on the actual locations traversed by Marco Polo, the series brings to life the authenticity of the local peoples from the standpoints of ethnology, historiography, culture and economics. We follow the exact route depicted in his book, Il millione, documenting the peoples, customs and cultures along the way to bring into sharp relief the cultural differences within the Asian mainland. Viewers are introduced to their development, becoming familiar with three completely different and, to us, relatively unknown spheres of civilisation and religion - Arabic Islam, Indian Hinduism and Oriental Buddhism. The host takes us through regions and cultures that may seem exotic - and, at times,dreamlike - in our search for the evidence of Marco Polo's passage.
In this globe-trotting adventure, Marco Polo (Don Diamont) plays the famous 13th Century explorer wh...
Assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, ...
Set at the time of Italian explorer Marco Polo's historic expedition to China ,during the reign of M...
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The TARDIS crew lands in the Himalayas of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are picked u...
Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, w...
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval Ch...
Three people from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a stalled elevator. What at...
Part two of the Mysterious China series chronicles Marco Polo's adventures and discoveries along the...
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If Iskender, a 12-year-old archer with extraordinary abilities, does not return from 2020 to the tim...
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Who are the people who clean the roads of the world? Why are the majority of them women and immigran...
Malaysian queer filmmaker Seok and Kenyan disabled activist-scholar Faith – embark on a journey to m...
Samwise and Stevie grew up with homelessness in BC and Nova Scotia. Ianos is a gender-queer Greek. K...
Documentary which focuses more on the impact of the film upon its release and how it has seeped into...
Documentary which delves a bit deeper into the story of the film in which the cast and crew discuss ...
A documentary in which the creative team discuss the process of adapting the material, the challenge...
Following Kristallnacht in 1938, Ulrich Ollendorff’s family flees Berlin as to avoid the horrific de...