This lavishly photographed and costumed action-drama-epic sticks to what we know of Genghis's early years, although that's not much, telling the story of how a young tribal boy overcame many obstacles, including slavery, to become a legendary conqueror. The widescreen suits this 'big sky' country and there is something remarkably authentic about the yurts and the costumes. Chosen for marriage, at the age of nine, by a female child, Borte, while he thinks he's doing the chosing, she becomes one o find out more...

An Oscar winning historical drama and deservedly so. The dialogue has to be the best quasi-Shakespearean wit ever written. Henry II lets his wife out of her castle for a weekend and all the family engage in a mass of plotting as they all try to stab each other in the back. Brilliant!! find out more...