Assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Marco Polo is abandoned in the mountains when the priests, doubting the very existence of China, turn back. Polo eventually pushes bravely forth alone toward the fabled country where he is accepted as an envoy into Khan's court. Marooned on the far side of the world, Polo, accompanied by his servant, Pedro, advances as a Mongol grandee for twenty extraordinary years. What he eventually brings back with him to the West is a chronicle that changed history forever.

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By filming on the actual locations traversed by Marco Polo, the series brings to life the authentici...

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In 1244, during a time of religious persecution, Pope Innocent IV and King Louis IX of France sought...
The historical television play was written based on Vančura's Pictures from the History of the Czech...
Wenceslas II, who already has adult children Eliška and Václav, refuses to marry the young Alžběta R...

The life story of Blessed Zdislava of Lemberk, about whom legends rather than sparse historical refe...

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An inspiring and timely tale about a 12-year-old Syrian refugee girl named Lamya. When she flees the...

Though Genghis Khan eventually sought peace with the West, his death in 1227 AD puts into power his ...

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