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- In the Far East, Alex O'Connell, the son of famed mummy fighters Rick and Evy O'Connell, unearths the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin -- a shape-shifting entity cursed by a witch centuries ago.
- A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.
- Two ex-special forces soldiers must escort a group of civilians along Baghdad's "Highway of Death" to the safety of the Green Zone.
- The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.
- An adaptation of a Chinese folktale about a pilgrimage to the West undertaken by a monk and his divine guardians.
- A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.
- In 1969 PRChina, two men survive a supernatural tomb. They later become tomb raiders with Shirley/Shu Qi. 20 years later in NYC, one is hired to find that tomb again and the 2 friends follow later.
- The life and experiences of the thirteenth century explorer, who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.
- During China's Cultural Revolution, a young urban student is sent to live with Mongolian herders, where he adopts a wolf cub.
- Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
- Temüjin and Börte are childhood lovers who are deeply in love; but news of Temüjin's father's death swiftly disrupted their relationship. Temüjin heads back to his hometown, but was faced with a sudden attack from his father's former comrades.
- A fantasy story happens in a fictional universe. Ka Suo, the prince of the Snow Nation, takes the journey to the magical holy shrine with his entourages, and incidentally discover the secrets related to his fate and beloved ones.
- Story centers on a battle during China's Warring States Period, a series of civil wars, which spanned from the 5th to the 3rd century B.C. Based on a popular Japanese manga, which was in turn based a Japanese novel inspired by Warring States history in China.
- This is a movie set in the late Ming Dynasty. The 3 main characters are all elite guards for the palace. One of their fellow guardsmen goes bad. His former companions must now forget their bond and apprehend him. But are they being lured into a larger conspiracy against their emperor?
- In the midst of the Chinese Revolution during the late 1940s, couples flee to the island of Taiwan.
- A loose adaptation of Hamlet, "The Night Banquet" is set in an empire in chaos. The Emperor, the Empress, the Crown Prince, the Minister and the General all have their own enemies they would like to finish off at a night banquet.
- The fate of a legendary boy, Temudjin, later the Genghis Khan, who became the most powerful emperor of Mongolia. With his army created one of the largest empires of all time.
- When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.
- An ancient fox spirit embarks on a diabolical quest to become human after escaping an icy prison, and becomes bound to a disfigured princess who seeks the love of a noble guard as her kingdom crumbles in this lavish supernatural epic. Confined to a frozen cell for centuries, malevolent fox spirit Xiaowei (Xun Zhou) regains her freedom and seeks to preserve her beauty by seducing men and consuming their hearts. Should a man offer her his heart willingly, Xiaowei will become mortal, breaking free of the underworld and experiencing living among the living. Meanwhile, as a dark cloud falls over her kingdom, Princess Jing (Wei Zhao) flees, hiding her deep facial scars under a mask of pure gold while seeking the love of her former protector, who remains haunted by his failure to save her years prior. When destiny brings Xiaowei and Princess Jing together, the battle for the princess' heart begins.
- The little Nansal finds a baby dog in the Mongolian veld, who becomes her best friend against all rejections of her parents.
- A street girl, Xiao Yan Zi, in a mix-up ends up as a Princess (officially titled Huan Zhu Ge Ge) instead of her sworn sister (played by Ruby Lin). The adventures continue as Xiao Yan Zi tries to adjust to palace life, falls in love with the fifth prince (played by Alec Su), makes enemies with the Empress, and all the while trying to give her sworn sister back the title of Princess.
- A curious friendship develops between Gombo, a young Mongolian shepherd living with his wife and family in a hut, deep in the wilderness of the steppes, and Sergei, a Russian worker whose truck breaks down not far from Gombo's hut.
- A writer documents the journey his family takes to Mongolia to consult with nomadic shamans on the healing of their autistic son.
- ALUS is a nomadic electronic musician who accompanied his mother with Alzheimer's disease back to the grassland and spent the last time with his mother.
- A dullard Texas entrepreneur reinvents himself as a cowboy in China's tech wild west, but finds himself at the mercy of corrupt American expats looking to reinvent him once more.
- Epic sweep and intimate details flow together to paint the story of Temujin, the man who became Genghis Khan.
- The epic saga of Zhu Di's life, conquests, and, the rebellion to usurp the throne of the Ming Empire from his imperial nephew.
- A mercenary is hired to protect an expedition group while they search for a Tangka, a Buddhist artifact worth millions of dollars.
- Russian overproduction over the great Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan (1162-1227) from his birth to the beginning of his great empire, involving much suffering and many bloody battles in the vast steppes of northeast Asia.
- Qian Long's mother returns to the palace from her religious pilgrimage and the Queen's action's become more ridiculous than ever. More trivial scenes than ever are added, only serving to give some with light humor. The concentration in the sequel is clearly on the love between couples. Two new important characters are also added--the border princess Hom Herng and her lover, Mon Don. Their conflict become an integral point in the sequel.
- In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation directed by Sybille Weber. Years later, a weird mark appears on the boy's chest and Diane and Liu share their dreadful nightmares. Diane is assigned for a three-day job in German and she leaves Liu with her friend Sybille. However, while going to the airport, Diane finds Liu hidden in the backseat and startles with an eagle flying toward the windshield, crashing her car. Liu falls into a coma and his digital recorder records the boy speaking in an unknown dialect. When Diane searches the translation and the origins of Liu, she is surrounded by mysterious murders. She discovers that the dialect is from the mystic Mongolian Tseven tribe and that Liu is a powerful Observer; further, he is in danger, threatened by sorcerers that need the boy for their Council of the Stone.
- In the 1980s, when middle-aged Hu Bayi packs his belongings for one of his adventures, he finds an old photo, which brings his memory back to his college days in the 1960s. He then reminiscence about his first adventure that led him to become a tomb-expert, together with a mysterious girl and his two best friends.
- After his girlfriend died in an undercover operation, police officer Fang Han decides to go undercover inside a drug cartel to investigate her death.
- Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and running water in a solitary tent home among the vast steppe grasslands. The magnificent landscape here has changed little since the days of Genghis Kahn. But life in the middle of nowhere can be exciting for a young boy. The smallest of details become big events for curious Bilike and his best friends Erguotou and Dawa. The mystery of the small white ball floating in the creek leads to questions about the world around them, as well as innocent mischief. Bilike's grandmother says the ball is a glowing pearl from heaven. But the boys are sceptical after waiting all night outdoors for the ball to light up. Since nobody has an idea about the odd white object, they trek to the faraway monastery to consult the wise lamas. But even the grasslands' most knowledgeable inhabitants are stumped. While watching the new TV-set Dawa's father has won, the boys learn about pingpong. They are excited to hear that their object is the 'national ball of China'. Not realizing how far Beijing actually is, the determined young boys set off to return the ball to the Chinese capital...
- Faced with climate change, many countries have embarked on the energy transition. Since the COP21 in 2015, which set demanding targets for reducing greenhouse gases, green energies have been on the rise. The electric car has thus become the mascot of this revolution. But manufacturers remain discreet about the carbon footprint of their cars marked "zero emission". Because not only do they consume electricity that is not always clean, but they also consume rare metals such as cobalt or lithium, the extraction of which causes havoc on the other side of the world. In China, for example, champion of rare metals, in Heilongjiang province, a carpet of toxic dust covers agricultural regions.
- Taiga is an eight-hour documentary directed and photographed by Ulrike Ottinger. It focuses on the life and rituals of nomadic peoples in Northern Mongolia, specifically the Darkhad nomads and the Sojon Urinjanghai.
- This program presents some of the more recent ideas about dinosaurs that are gaining acceptance while following paleontologists searching for fossils over the decades in the Gobi Desert and New Mexico.
- When Xiangyang was ten years old, his grandmother passed away, and he went to live with his father. Father and son used to be strangers but now they gradually get along very well. In order to make his family lead a better life, father goes away from home to find work. Xiangyang was misunderstood by his stepmother, and he left home to find his father. While his father died in a Mine and Xiangyang has to raise the poor family.
- At the heart of a small mining town, reflecting the economic and social upheavals of contemporary China, the destiny of Guangsheng, torn between the respect he owes to his own and his own desires.
- In a future century, after the apocalypse, Gui Dao dynasty controls continental Asia. Zhuai and his younger brother Mian are captured and sent to "Prosperity Camp" for reeducation. They soon discover that the camp's aim is to brainwash people with propaganda. Five years later, there's a change in government and they are free again. Zhuai falls in love for the beautiful Xuelan and together they take her to an old industrial city, now deserted. They get themselves a place to live in an abandoned apartment and try to rediscover the little pleasures of life.
- A diary was found in the coffin of his great-grandpa Jin Maocai when the professional treasure hunter Jin San moved his ancestral grave. The diary recorded that the authentic manuscript of Su Dongpo's famous poem was buried in a Japanese underground fortification in Mongolian during the Counter-Japanese War. Jin San formed a treasure-hunting team to carry out treasure hunting. In the process of treasure hunting, Jin San and others met two other groups of grave robbers. After a battle between the two groups, they finally reached an agreement to seek treasure together. However, they did not expect that accidents happened frequently during treasure hunting. They met drug traffickers, were obstructed by foreign terrorist organizations and other evil forces, and launched a fierce struggle for treasure protection.
- During an operation with a master criminal, an undercover cop fails his mission because he was shot by an uniform officer. His superior suspects he has become a bad seed and refuses to allow him to rejoin the force. In order to prove his innocence, the cop decides to follow the thief to the Sino-Russian border on an arms struggle deal, but on the way they are chased by Mainland police. During the escape the cop and the criminal become friends. When they return to the Hong Kong border, the police awaits on the other side and...
- New Zealand Celebrities take individual journeys to exotic, sometimes difficult and out of the way locations and share their experiences in an honest and often amusing way. Season 2 sees Cambodia, Syria, Jordan, Borneo, Peru, Tibet, East Timor, Myanmar, Mongolia, China and Mexico visited.
- A frigid winter on the Mongolian steppe, an untimely snowstorm led a pregnant herder and her 8-year-old daughter to places they've never been..
- Six fifty-minute films charting the history of the world's largest industry. Filmed over an entire tourist season in four continents, this major documentary film series examines how and why the tourist business first evolved, and how the world has been altered as a result. Includes the story of Thomas Cook, the rise of the Spanish package holiday, the history of sightseeing in London, the story of the holiday camp, the history of scenic tourism and the emergence of the theme park.
- A group of Australian adventurers led by Lang Kidby OAM, and including "Top Gear Australia" co-host Warren Brown, re-enact the 1907 Peking to Paris car race in five 100-year-old vehicles identical to those in the original race.
- Nömadak Tx is a road movie documentary of Igor Otxoa and Harkaitz Mtnez. de San Vicente of the Basque Country in Spain who take their ancient Txalaparta percussion instrument to native peoples in India, the Arctic Circle, Mongolia, Algeria, and the Saharan Desert.
- Winner of Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union's 1993 TV Prize. Though no longer a nomad, Meng Jin Fu of the Oroqen ethnic group , still believes that the Mountain God is the sole guardian of the hills and forest around him. He carves a mountain god whenever he reaches a new forest, using primitive tools and simple methods . He is one of the few people who hang on to a traditional way of life in a rapidly changing world.