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"History knows him as Genghis Khan, but before he became a warlord, he was simply a man named Temudgin. Exiled into slavery as a boy and forced into a life of struggle after his father is killed by a rival clan, the greatest military mastermind of all time survived on the strength of a single dream: to unite his people into the largest empire the world has ever known"--Container.

Explores ancient Rome and its cities, including what Romans learned from the Greeks and Etruscans and the features of modern cities we owe to the ingenuity of the Romans.

This is a film about the life of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China who was crowned at the age of three. His life was inextricably bound to the turbulent politics of twentieth-century China.

In HOW THE STATES GOT THEIR SHAPES, Brian Unger hits the road to uncover the history hidden in our map.

Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**

In ALONE, ten men are left in solitude, and separated from each other, in the harsh Vancouver Island wilderness. With no camera crews or producers, they have to survive using only what they can stuff into a backpack.

This documentary reveals the espionage battles between the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s onward. The series of political conspiracies eventually led to the Chinese Civil War immediately after World War II.

To witness how European civilization developed is to understand why and how the entire Western world became who and what it is. Such an understanding is essential if you are to have a nuanced grasp of the important events that dominate the daily news. In short, and in almost every way that matters, historical Europe was the laboratory in which the world you now live in was conceived and tested. And you'll be living with the consequences of those experiments...

The epic story of the rise of the Afrikaner people in South Africa, told from their view of history. Directed by Joseph Albrecht.

El Shazly and Rashad speak to leading scholars at the Egyptian Museum of Cairo, which houses Tutankhamun’s treasures, enjoy exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, and visit several active dig sites across Egypt, including Saqqara and Luxor. Featuring insight from Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr. Mostafa Waziry and more.