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- Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
- Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
- Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.
- Survivors of a plane crash in the Mongolian desert work together to build a new plane.
- Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from Hell", "The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers", Woody Allen (pre-Mia), movie trailer come-ons, Charlie Chaplin, war movies, Billy Jack. The source of the title is presented about an hour into the film.
- In 1944, US Navy specialists run a weather station in the Gobi desert where they are harassed by Japanese warplanes but aided by local Mongol nomads.
- When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.
- Jiang Wen stars in his third directorial work that boasts a stellar cast including Joan Chen, Anthony Wong and Jaycee Chan. A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
- Seven maps, when found and put together, reveal the location of the treasures of Genghis Khan.
- A young lawyer from the city travels to the Gobi desert where he embarks on a series of adventures and challenges.
- A dozen aging survivors are interviewed from Jiabiangou, a complex of three work camps in Northwest China where supposed rightists were sent for re-education in the 1950s and 1960s under Mao Zedong.
- A diverse cast of non-professional runners attempt to complete the most difficult ultramarathon race series on Earth. Their dramatic journey takes them across the World's most picturesque yet brutal landscapes, pushing their bodies, hearts and spirits through a myriad of external and internal obstacles. DESERT RUNNERS delves into the mindset of ultra-athletes, and the complex ways in which human beings deal with both heartbreak and triumph.
- It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao's camps, at the end of the fifties, where 'rightists' were sent to be 're-educated through labor'.
- Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.
- This program presents some of the more recent ideas about dinosaurs that are gaining acceptance while following paleontologists searching for fossils over the decades in the Gobi Desert and New Mexico.
- Documents a workday at a remote Chinese oil field, from a stolen nap in a break room to the massive drills plunging into the earth.
- More than 80 million years ago, the Oviraptor, a strange bird-like dinosaur, walked the sandy banks of an oasis in what is now the "Gobi in Mongolia." A creature that measured some 8 feet in length, its razor-shard claws were deadly weapons of protection for guarding its offspring from constant danger. Now join a daring expedition of scientists as they uncover a treasure trove of fossils, shattering long-held myths about this dinosaur's behavior.
- A fossil mother lode in the Gobi Desert is providing a window into a critical period of the Jurassic period when dinosaurs gained the huge size but where few fossils have been found.
- Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be to head for the Orient and straighten out problems at the inland-concession site his company controls. Chet Eaton, Johnny's brother and in-charge of the China operation, is drinking too much, plus a local Tartar bandit, Ho-Fing, is raiding and sabotaging the operation, having been bribed by a rival company. Johnny bribes him also but Ho-Fing is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately guy and doesn't stay re-bribed. Johnny decides hand-grenades speak louder than money, and have a longer-lasting effect on Oriental bandits.
- Dinosaur expert Dr Phil Currie goes on a quest to prove that Tyrannosaurs were more intelligent and far more dangerous than we ever imagined, and they hunted in deadly, killer packs.
- Shama Town has a legend of buried treasures around the town. When the town leader decides to promote Shama Town as a tourist destination, it unfortunately only attracts a gang of international thieves intent on finding the buried treasures
- An extraordinary human life.
- 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.
- In one of the most inaccessible regions of Mongolia, our teams captured exclusive 3D footage of a western Mongolian Eagle Festival. For almost two weeks, we lived with a hunter and his family and learned how he trains his eagles and then takes them on a hunt. Our 3D cameras caught the immensity of the Mongolian plain with towering snow-capped mountains surrounding us in the distance. We gathered intimate 3D footage of life in a Mongolian Gur, or lodge, and recorded rare images of what it takes to survive in this vast, frigid landscape.
- When Tony has to escort a princess around, Jeannie announces that due to a family feud she has to kill her. To save the princess Tony sends Jeannie around the world with tasks so massive that she will miss the three days of her visit.