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Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World

Explores the plans for the construction of the monumental dam on China's Yangtze River, the structure that when complete...

Beijing 2008: Games of the XXIX Olympiad

Here's a Special Edition DVD that captures the most dramatic and exciting moments from the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. O...

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often seem happier than the...

Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers...

Die besten Frauen der Welt

The director accompanies the German women's national soccer team.

Eastern Memories

At the turn of the 19th and 20th century Finnish philologist G. J. Ramstedt travelled around Mongolia and Central-Asia....

Ascension

The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” Driven by mesmerizing—and sometimes hum...

Ta'ang

The Ta'ang or Palaung people, an ethnic minority living in the mountainous area between Myanmar's Kokang region and Chin...

Xiao Jia Going Home

Leading Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns home to Fenyang in Shanxi province after winning the Gold...

Redefining China's Family: Women

10 May 2007 - China's staggering economic growth has overshadowed a more subtle shift in Chinese society. In domestic li...

Chinese Portrait

Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaux o...

Manufactured Landscapes

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Inter...

Expedition China

Expedition China invites you on location in some of the world's most intense, hard-to-reach environments with the filmma...

China - Treasures of the Jade Empire

Tibet - The Truth

The accumulated history of Tibet and other issues contributing to the current situation in the region as it relates to C...

The Road to Fame

China's top drama academy stages the American musical "Fame," China's first official collaboration with Broadway, as the...

I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story

A documentary about Caroll Spinney who has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969. At 78-years-ol...

The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story

It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made structures on the planet...

Scars Of Nanking

During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of...

Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge

Russia, China and Iran: three former empires are determined to take their revenge and reassert their power after centuri...