A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY showing the adventure, peril and serenity of a group’s attempt to climb the world’s most challenging peak. Shot in Pakistan in the summer of 2009 by Ursus Films, K2: SIREN OF THE HIMALAYAS follows world-class alpinists Fabrizio

Nomads describe the ancient practices of water burial and sky burial, threatened by Chinese policies inside Tibet.

  TAJIKISTAN – The glaciers of the Pamir mountains, which provide over 50% of Central Asia’s water resources, are rapidly melting at a rate similar to Greenland’s continental glacier. Three generations of of Pamiri women share the impacts of the

A horse trainer and his 10-year-old jockey face the biggest day of their year at Mongolia’s Naadam festival, which dates back to before Genghis Khan’s time and celebrates the ‘manly sports’ of wrestling, archery and racing.

  Adams hitches a ride with the Taliban to cris-cross Afghanistan: a county where few westerners dare to go. He finally reaches the Bamiyan Buddhas, just before they are destroyed.

Heading to the rough and tumble frontier of western China, Jeff and Peter venture to the city of Kashgar – their first stop on the “Silk Road”.

Documentary charting the history and geography of China’s 5000-mile-long ‘Silk Road’, the channel of trade, commerce and culture that was famously followed by Venetian explorer Marco Polo in the 13th century when he became one of the first Europeans to

President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan was the dictator famous in the West for his crazy decrees and bizarre personality cult. But for his people, there was nothing comical about his rule.