At the turn of the 19th and 20th century Finnish philologist G. J. Ramstedt travelled around Mongolia and Central-Asia. In this documentary Ramstedt’s memoirs are heard in the modern day setting, where tradition is replaced with hunger for money, and deserts give way to cities.
On 11 March 2011, an earthquake caused a tsunami to hit the Tōhoku (Northeast) region of Japan. In t...
Barbara Wong interviews HK women (of all ages (even 4 year olds), all walks of life, all sexual pref...
Revered sushi chef Jiro Ono strives for perfection in his work, while his eldest son, Yoshikazu, has...
Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spira...
Explores the plans for the construction of the monumental dam on China's Yangtze River, the structur...
In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebod...
Leading Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns home to Fenyang in Shanxi province af...
Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told...
In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition headed for the South Pole and di...
Korea is a divided nation. Filmmaker Min Sook Lee sets out on a revelatory, emotion-charged journey ...
A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until...
During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civili...
This landmark documentary film by Paul Elston tells the incredible story of how it was the British w...
The Ta'ang or Palaung people, an ethnic minority living in the mountainous area between Myanmar's Ko...
Documentary directed by Tom Kleespie inspired from Korean War veterans who recall memories both pain...
Matsuko Deluxe explores the seemingly familiar yet overlooked facets of Japanese culture through rea...
Takeshi Kitano is an international icon. We know the actor, the multi-award-winning filmmaker, but m...