The figure of Emperor Peter the Great, as well as the era of his formation and reign, still excites the minds of people all over the world. The creators answer the questions of how to take the throne when you are the fourteenth child in the family; how to win access to the sea when there is no professional army and navy in the country; how to bring a country that no one considered before into world leaders in a few decades, and many others..
Pendant le règne chaotique de Qin Shi Huang sur la Chine, sa dynastie Qin est sur le point d'être usurpée par Zhao Gao. Ji Lian, un loyal sujet de la dynastie Qin, n'a pas reculé devant les innombrables combattants envoyés par le méchant Zhao Gao, et a juré de s'accrocher jusqu'au dernier moment à la sauvegarde de l'épée et de la dynastie Qin..
This is one of the 'Animagical' titles from the children's film archive of Rankin/Bass. The story line is reminiscent of an earlier 1966 R/B Animagic film, 'The Daydreamer', both of which chronicles the fairy tales of Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen..
Film expérimental, sans fil narratif, enchaîne les scènes de provocations (extrêmes) sur l’état du Japon-du monde des années 1960. L’Empereur Tomato Ketchup est un enfant gâté révolutionnaire. Il découvre et abuse de ses nouvelles possibilités comme le pouvoir sur les adultes et la sexualité. L’enfant s’amuse de sa position tant qu’il est encore enfant, avant de devenir à son tour l’esclave des plus jeunes..
Two con men take advantage of an emperor's vanity..
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia..
In this time-travel animated adventure, journey to the mountainous region of Macchu Picchu in Peru, where an Incan princess helps an adventurer discover his true self in the chaotic 15th century. But will he rise to the occasion? It depends on whether he can find the wherewithal to face his own demons..
Lin Feng was an orphan outside Liuxian City. There's a forest of crying ghosts in Wu Village. According to legend, there was a ghost and a forbidden place in W Village. One day Lin Feng accidentally broke in and found an ice coffin in the cave, which contained a beautiful woman. Lin Feng accidentally opened the ice chest to wake Ying Taiyue. After Ying Taiyue awoke, she accidentally discovered that Lin Feng could actually deposit the Sacred Goods of the Hongmeng Demon Race which caused Lin Feng to swallow the Hongmeng Demon Type, and then leave. From then on, Lin Feng's body began to change. Hongmeng's demons sprout on Lin Feng's body and cultivate cute spiritual shoots. Strange things also happen in Wu Village. Lin Feng who has great power will do something in the face of that strangeness. What kind of decision will Lin Feng make?.
Archaeologists attempt to sort fact from fiction to validate the reputation of China's only female emperor, Wu Zetian..
With unique insights in epic locations and interpretations of ancient inscriptions and artefacts, Mary Beard uncovers the hidden world of the emperors of Rome..
A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa..
Liu Yung plays Li Lang, a court official out to avenge his former emperor. The target is easy to hate: the power-hungry Kuang-yi (Chao Kuo) is a plundering rapist and a cold-blooded murderer. But can one man take on the imperial army?.
George and Tony are two good fellas from the mean streets of New York. All they want is to make it to their 21st birthdays, but in their world of prostitutes, junkies and gangs, one wrong move can be their last!.
In Europe several several centuries ago, a group of prisoners about to be executed are freed as part of the celebration of the upcoming marriage of the emperor's daughter, Princess Gilda, to a very rich prince from another country. Sid Caesar composed the song "Clothes Make the Man". Ran 93 minutes on German TV..
Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through China via a marvelous 72-foot long 17th-century Chinese scroll entitled The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), scroll seven . As Hockney unrolls the beautiful and minutely detailed work of art, he traces the Emperor Kangxi’s second tour of his southern empire in 1689..
Comments on the background and popularity of disc jockey "Emperor" Bob Hudson, who bases his shows on the idea that radio is a fantasy..
The documentary follows Yeshi Kassa, great-granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, as she embarks on a personal quest to discover what happened to her closest relatives during the coup of 1974. While Yeshi and her older sister were thousands of miles away in a British boarding school, her great-grandfather was deposed by a revolution, setting off a harrowing chain of events that would put her parents and siblings in grave danger. For the very first time, the royal family examines the events that led to the collapse of a 3,000-year-old dynasty and reflects on how, against all odds, they were able to survive this turbulent time in Ethiopian history..
The incomparable Plácido Domingo began a new chapter in his legendary Met career when he created the role of Emperor Qin in the world premiere of Tan Dun’s epic opera. Staged by revered film director Zhang Yimou, The First Emperor is both a rich pageant of ancient China and a fascinating study of the ruler who united it. Conducted by the composer, it also stars Paul Groves and Elizabeth Futral and features a riveting turn by Peking Opera performer Wu Hsing-Kuo as the Yin-Yang Master..
