Three thousand years is a period of time long enough to produce great changes, and in the course of that time a great many different nations and congeries of nations were formed in the regions of Central Asia. The term Tartars has been employed generically to denote almost the whole race. The Monguls are a portion of this people, who are said to derive their name from Mongol Khan, one of their earliest and most powerful chieftains. The descendants...

Set in 12th century China, the captured Tartar princess, Bortai, tricks Genghis Khan into mistrusting his blood brother, but falls in love with the Mongol chief.

This visually stunning film tells the tale of Ivan Demarin, a young patriotic officer of the First Guard, who is sent with his regiment to a township in the heart of Siberia. They are on a peaceful mission in search of gold, or so they believe.

The Great Match tells the adventurous story of three soccer fans, none of whom have ever met, but who nevertheless have two things in common: first, they all live in the farthest-flung corners of the planet and, second, they are all determined to watch the TV broadcast of the 2002 World Cup final between Germany and Brazil. The protagonists in this "global" comedy are a family of Mongolian nomads, a camel caravan of Tuareg in the Sahara, and a group...