Marco Polo: Return to Xanadu (2001)

Were leaders in Britain and France so scarred by the carnage of World War I that they failed to stand up to Hitler as he began his march through Europe, thus providing the spark that would become World War II? Was Czechoslovakia abandoned by Britain and France, sacrificed in the face of Hitler's aggression? In The Road to War, acclaimed historians Richard Overy and Andrew Wheatcroft cogently piece together a globe fractured by war to show how conditions such as the lack of sophisticated intelligence-gathering techniques, limited communication, and events in the USSR and the Far East all conspired to forge a world of shifting alliances, and difficult decisions.

Marco Polo travels from Venice to Peking, where he quickly discovers spaghetti and gunpowder and falls in love with the Emperor's daughter. The Emperor Kublai Khan is a kindly fellow, but his evil aide Ahmed wants to get rid of Kublai Khan so he can be emperor, and to get rid of Marco Polo so he can marry the princess.

Did Marco Polo, the most illustrious traveller in history, ever venture to China? A debate continues as to whether the Venetian's book is actually a personal account of China's 13th-century Middle Kingdom and its marvels. Scientists, western scholars and Chinese historians have uncovered striking new evidence that the son of Venetian merchants had travelled to the mysterious middle kingdom.

Put a fence in front of these men… and they'll climb it! - In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp

A gang of ex-cons rob a casino during Elvis convention week.

This feature-length documentary on early Chinese film pioneer Lai Man-wai (Li Minhui) premiered at the 2001 Hong Kong International Film Festival, and has now been released on DVD. Directed by Choi Kai-kwong, it is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the origins of Hong Kong and Chinese cinema.

Burt Gummer returns home to Perfection, Nev., to find that the town of terror has become a theme park, and when the simulated giant worm attacks turn real, the survivalist must battle the creatures once again. Gummer pits his impressive …

As humanity prepares to establish colonies beyond Earth, are we simply realizing mankind's future or returning to its extraterrestrial past? And when humans become the alien visitors on other planets, what–or whom–will we encounter?

Trevor McDonald returns to where he conducted one of television's most historic interviews with Nelson Mandela. To mark what would have been Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday in 2018, Sir Trevor McDonald is back in the country which he first visited for ITN in the 1980's and where he conducted one of television's most historic interviews. Nearly three decades after the release of Mandela, Trevor returns to find a very different South Africa, hearing the stories of a diverse range of people whose fortunes and attitudes sum up a nation changes beyond all recognition. But is it truly the Rainbow Nation Nelson Mandela hoped it would become or is it a land of division, inequality and extremes?