British sad sack Gary is a failed entrepreneur who has just arrived in Beijing's stylish Sanlitun district, allegedly to start a business. There are other reasons why he has uprooted himself — he's followed his ex-wife and young son, for one — but he soon finds out that China isn't the easiest place to succeed. Blissfully untouched by self-awareness, and only fitfully in tune with reality, Gary sallies forth to make money, armed with faith in himself and little to no knowledge of Chinese culture. He soon hooks up with Frank, a trust-fund kid from Australia who offers to mentor Gary in Eastern ways, although Frank's pedagogical method is restricted to yelling at Gary for being a Westerner and not being as "Chinese" as him.
Na antiga China, durante a guerra, todos os homens são convocados para lutar. Mas, um pobre velho, que pela idade não poderia mais lutar, descobre que sua filha Mulan toma o seu lugar, vestindo-se como homem e permanecendo em segredo. Se isso for descoberto, o castigo será severo. Agora, durante a guerra, Mulan ganha a proteção de um pequeno dragão, cuja missão é cuidar para que ela volte a salvo
A spectacular aerial journey following the world’s longest monument, the Great Wall. In slow-TV style, fly 2,500 kilometres along the wall, from the Yellow Sea to the Gobi Desert.
It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made structures on the planet - the Great Wall of China, stretching thousands of miles across barren deserts and treacherous mountains before finally plunging into the sea. But why did the Chinese go to such staggering lengths to build it, and what are the secrets that have enabled it to survive for over 2,000 years? Now, ground breaking science is re-writing its complex history and de-coding its mysteries to reveal that there is much more to the Great Wall than just bricks and mortar. Cutting edge chemistry reveals that the secret to the Great Wall's remarkable strength is a simple ingredient found in every kitchen, and a new survey also determines that its length is truly amazing, as we finally solve the enigma at the heart of the world's greatest mega-structure.
No ano de 221 a.C, o primeiro imperador da China Qin Shihuang começou a construção de sua tumba real. No mausoléu, foram enterrados o imperador, centenas de milhares de pessoas que trabalharam na construção, um tesouro e, diz a lenda, o elixir da juventude. Nos dias de hoje, o arqueólogo Jack (Jackie Chan) e o cientista William (Tony Leung Ka Fai) encontram em Dasar, na Índia, uma antiga espada da dinastia Qin, e uma pedra mágica que desafia a força da gravidade. Os objetos podem levá-los ao mítico mausoléu e conectar Jack e seus recorrentes sonhos a uma surpreendente vida passada.
No século XV, William e Tovar são dois mercenários em busca de “pó negro” (pólvora). Depois de escaparem do ataque de uma criatura misteriosa, eles se encontram, acidentalmente, aos pés da Grande Muralha. Lá, eles acabam aprisionados pelos guerreiros chineses, que estão na iminência de sofrerem um ataque. Reza a lenda que, a cada 60 anos, uma horda de monstros tenta transpassar a barreira, para se alimentar dos humanos que vivem do outro lado.
They say it's over 2000 years old, and more than 4,000 miles long. But even today nobody really knows for sure. The Great Wall of China is one of the world's famous buildings but it is still the least known. British writer and historian William Lindesay has lived in China for twenty years. Exploring the Great Wall has become his lifetime obsession.
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted autocratic dictatorship and led a luxurious life: abolition of feudalism and the centralization of power in the form of a now-hereditary bureaucracy loyal to himself; burning books and burying scholars; the construction of a sumptuous palace for his concubines and also the Great Wall.
A arqueóloga Lara Croft precisa encontrar a Caixa de Pandora, famosa por conter em seu interior todos os males do mundo. O objeto está escondido em um local conhecido como Origem da Vida, localizado no continente africano. Porém em sua jornada, Croft terá que enfrentar o Dr. Jonathan Reiss, um cientista ganhador do Prêmio Nobel que também está atrás do objeto.
O imperador chinês Dragão e seu grande exército são enfeitiçados e enterrados por uma bruxa maldita. Quando o jovem arqueólogo Alex O' Connell é enganado para ressuscitar o imperador, ele e seus famosos parentes devem encontrar uma forma de mandar o mal de volta para a tumba antes que Dragão desperte seu grande exército.
‘The Great Wall has been completed at its most southerly point.’ So begins Kafka’s short story ‘At the Building of the Great Wall of China’, and so, at Europe’s heavily militarised south-eastern frontier, begins this film. In the shadow of its own narratives of freedom, Europe has been quietly building its own great wall. Like its famous Chinese precursor, this wall has been piecemeal in construction, diverse in form and dubious in utility. Gradually cohering across the continent, this system of enclosure and exclusion is urged upon a populace seemingly willing to accept its necessity and to contribute to its building.
Lex Luthor desenvolve um homem com a mesma estrutura molecular de Superman, portanto, com os mesmos poderes. A criatura está programada para destruir o Homem de Aço e, quando o duelo tem início, o confronto se torna uma grande ameaça à paz mundial.
A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China. The cinematic journey of Around China with a Movie Camera contains many films which may never have been seen in China, or at the very least not for over 70 years. These travelogues, newsreels and home movies were made by a diverse group of British and French filmmakers, some professionals, but mainly enthusiastic amateurs, including intrepid tourists, colonial-era expatriates and Christian missionaries.
In the twilight years of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese filmmaker slowly becoming blind tours the country screening her last film to peasants. In it, the woman imagines two "alien" lovers walking from end-to-end along the Great Wall to join each other in the middle, one last time. This documentary is an adaptation of Ulay and Marina Abramovic's final collaborative project, the 1988 performance "The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk."
The Great Wall of China stretches for thousands of miles, an iconic monument that can be seen even from outer space. Yet, despite being so visible, it's steeped in secrets, which are finally revealed in this extraordinary documentary produced by the Discovery Channel (with the help of NASA and various Chinese organizations). Learn about the history of the wall's construction, including the impetus for building it and lives lost in its creation.
Channel 4 docudrama following the history of the Great Wall of China, from the earliest building of simple mud walls to the construction of the series of stone fortresses built during the 16th Century in response to continued Mongol invasion.
Filmed with high-definition photography, this fascinating documentary sheds light on the history of the famed Great Wall of China, a man-made wall of stone stretching some 4,000 miles. Segments dissect the technological feats surrounding the wall's remarkable construction and also examine the various myths and legends about one of the world's greatest wonders.