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'Charlemagne' recounts the dramatic, violent and bawdy lie of the Middle Ages' most important emperor: His life as a political strategist, a passionate lover, a man that conquered most of Europe and a cultural visionary. The mix of feature film and documentary gives a journey to the roots of European culture.

Film revealing the reality of the lives of four of the Sherpas who help mountaineers climb Everest, both in their work on the mountain and with their families after returning home.

An adventurous filmmaker has challenged himself to explore the Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean, the last remaining windows into the primeval past of tropical islands.

A butler looks back at how the Salzburg Festspiele came to be, and how it interacted with various political influences of the 20th century.

More than 20,000 km long, the Great Wall of China consists of walls, natural barriers and trenches. A true fortification, it played a decisive role in the seizure of power, the reign and fall of empires and dynasties. From 221 BC, the first Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huang, at the head of the Qin dynasty, succeeded in unifying China by waging bloody wars against his neighbors and by setting up a new state organization. Like other regions, the newly formed empire protected itself against the invasion of nomads from the north with a 5,000-kilometer-long wall. This was the beginning of the Great Wall of China.