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Lidia has been babysitting 13-year-old Toivo for several years. When Lidia gets accepted to study abroad, the two face a new situation. What is it to say goodbye? Marco Polo tells a story of a shared game and the emotional weight of an inevitable goodbye between two people who both are at a turning point in their lives.

The Pet Pals are put to the test when the Evil Crow Witch is determined to drain the canals of Venice. Armed with a touch of magic, the Pet Pals combine their strengths to uncover the secret code before the Evil Witch does.

While it has been debated for many years, new evidence might finally put one debate to rest: Marco Polo has gone to China. Explore the mysteries of the historical figure in this documentary.

Assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Marco Polo is abandoned in the mountains when the priests, doubting the very existence of China, turn back. Polo eventually pushes bravely forth alone toward the fabled country where he is accepted as an envoy into Khan's court. Marooned on the far side of the world, Polo, accompanied by his servant, Pedro, advances as a Mongol grandee for twenty extraordinary years. What he eventually brings back with him to the West is a chronicle that changed history forever.

Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

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A camping weekend, takes a left turn when college seniors encounter an evil from the past. The evil spirit of the explorer Marco Polo makes their next 24 hours hell on earth.

Playing Marco Polo in other people's pools wasn't a good idea...

Researchers unearth a long-lost page of "The Travels of Marco Polo" and discover it's a clue to a lost treasure! Lupin appears to swipe the tablet, but he leaves empty-handed... and as a murder suspect! He shrugs off being framed for the death of an archaeology professor just enough to go treasure-hunting. Tailed by both a weapons dealer and ICPO Inspector Zenigata, Lupin must rely on his gunslinging partner Jigen and the professor's granddaughter Lisa to stay two steps ahead. Meanwhile, the swordsman Goemon rethinks his devotion to the blade and finds romance deep in the mountains. Two tales collide in a worldwide adventure packed with history and laughs!

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By filming on the actual locations traversed by Marco Polo, the series brings to life the authenticity of the local peoples from the standpoints of ethnology, historiography, culture and economics. We follow the exact route depicted in his book, Il millione, documenting the peoples, customs and cultures along the way to bring into sharp relief the cultural differences within the Asian mainland. Viewers are introduced to their development, becoming familiar with three completely different and, to us, relatively unknown spheres of civilisation and religion - Arabic Islam, Indian Hinduism and Oriental Buddhism. The host takes us through regions and cultures that may seem exotic - and, at times,dreamlike - in our search for the evidence of Marco Polo's passage.

Popular science film based on the book by Marco Polo.

A defiant warrior-monk arrives at Kublai Khan's court in chains and soon earns his tragic nickname in this 30-minute origin story.

The TARDIS crew lands in the Himalayas of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are picked up by Marco Polo's caravan on its way along the fabled Silk Road to see the Emperor Kublai Khan. The story concerns the Doctor and his companions' attempts to thwart the machinations of Tegana, who attempts to sabotage the caravan along its travels through the Pamir Plateau and across the treacherous Gobi Desert, and ultimately to assassinate Kublai Khan in Peking, at the height of his imperial power.

The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.

Explorer Marco Polo is assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to China, to try to convert the "pagan" Kublai Khan to Christianity. However, on a dangerous trek through the mountains, the priests decide they don't believe that China even exists, and when Marco tries to argue the point, they abandon him and turn back. He eventually makes it through the mountains and into the fabled land of China, where he is received at the court of Kublai Khan as an envoy. Accompanied by his faithful servant Pedro, Marco spends 20 years in that country, and when he eventually returns to Europe what he brings with him changes the course of history forever.

In the midst of a war between Venice and Genoa, Marco Polo, a citizen of Venice, is imprisoned by the inquisition and is charged with heresy.

An adventure story about a young Marco whose ancestor was the descendant of the famous historical Marco Polo, takes an exciting journey to the mythical kingdom of Xanadu. He must travel back to the land of the Kubla Khan to save it from an evil villain who is a magician, known as Foo-Ling who does not want Marco to reach Xanadu. The help of his friends and the great powers of the medallion enable Marco to chase after Foo-Ling through space and time, and one day, bring him back to justice. Written by Anthony Pereyra

Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.

A Dream Opera in Two Parts composed by Claude Vivier and recorded live at the Gasholder Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek Amsterdam, 2004. Performed by various soloists, Asko Ensemble and Schonberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw

Set at the time of Italian explorer Marco Polo's historic expedition to China ,during the reign of Monogol ruler Kublai Khan, it stars American actor Richard Harrison as Polo. Taking considerable liberties with the historic record, the film has Polo turning up as an Imperial Inspector assigned to root out Chinese rebles in the south, but eventually being won over to their cause.

Three people from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a stalled elevator. What at first seems like an inconvenience rapidly escalates into a nightmare.

In this globe-trotting adventure, Marco Polo (Don Diamont) plays the famous 13th Century explorer who sets out from Italy to find his missing father, and along the way finds danger, excitement, and amazing discoveries at every turn. The supporting cast includes Oliver Reed, Jack Palance, and Herbert Lom.

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Part two of the Mysterious China series chronicles Marco Polo's adventures and discoveries along the Silk Road as he heads toward the Mongol Empire in China. This documentary reveals the pivotal trade route as experienced and written about by the 13th-century explorer. Follow the tracks of the Venetian adventurer -- one of the first Westerners to journey into China -- and uncover the mysteries of the Silk Road.

In the Footsteps of Marco Polo is a 2008 PBS documentary film detailing Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell's 1993 retracing of Marco Polo's journey from Venice to Anatolia, Persia, India and China.

Deep Crates 2 documents the history behind diggin for samples and creating beats. The 2nd Deep Crates DVD installment takes you back to the origins of sampling records with some of the culture's founding pioneers. Worldwide diggin spots are exposed from the USA to Canada to Japan. From first impressions, Deep Crates 2 appears to be a step up from the crude shooting and editing of the original Deep Crates. With a shorter list of featured producers, one can expect longer interviews with more potency. Features in studio footage and exclusive anecdotes from some of the most famous crate diggers on earth.

Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Chile are countries visited on this incredible trip through Latin America. Excellent waves, impressive maneuvers and the best surfers, always accompanied by great music, culture and beautiful people. Come and discover the Americas of Surf, and understand why Latinos are so proud of this blessed continent, bathed by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with incredible variations in climates, swells and wave formations. Embark on this trip, and enjoy amazing peaks such as: Cacimba do Padre, Floripa, Garopaba, El Gringo, Poema Point, Punta Hermosa, Todos os Santos and many others.

Everything about Brazilian surfing, the championships since the beginning of the circuit, curiosities, facts and images that marked the time.

Noel struggles to accept his father's remarriage to Agnes and the arrival of his step-sister, Melody. The two grow up harboring a bitter hatred for each other. When their parents die, Noel becomes Melody's legal guardian, much to her dismay. Later, each now married, the two become business partners and eventually grow closer.

Daniel Braganza is the leading assassin of a big crime syndicate, a killer totally bereft of a conscience, thereby earning the nickname of Markadong Hudas. Unknown to the underworld, Daniel is only doing his job to earn big amounts of money to save the life of his young daughter who is very sick and needs expensive care.

Jaime de Guzman, a military neurosurgeon, survives a massacre that killed his wife and daughter. He hunts down all perpetrators and is able to kill them except the boss. From returning to a normal life and to the death of a girl after performing a brain operation to her, he hides his guilt to his new life.

UFC 211: Miocic vs. dos Santos 2 is a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on May 13, 2017 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.

UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping 2 was a mixed martial arts event held on June 4, 2016 at The Forum in Inglewood, California. After numerous opponents were forced to withdraw from the main event against Middleweight Champion, Luke Rockhold, the Ultimate Fighter 3 winner Michael Bisping accepted the fight. This fight was a rematch as the two met previously in November 2014 at UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Bisping, with Rockhold winning via submission in the second round.

UFC Fight Night 78: Magny vs. Gastelum was a mixed martial arts event held on November 21, 2015, at the Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. A welterweight bout between Neil Magny and Kelvin Gastelum served as the event headliner.

After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing it to be an undisturbed eco-system that has produced a new species, they hire the best American team of underwater cave explorers in the world. While exploring deeper into the underwater caves, a rockslide blocks their exit, and they soon discover a larger carnivorous creature has added them to its food chain.

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

Luis, an 18-year-old Mexican boy with indigenous roots, enters the Heroico Military College with the hope of securing a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to make him a perfect soldier.

An investigation into urban space from the perspective of young people in Lyon.

Aymara comes to terms with her identity; she has a Swiss parent and a South American parent, but she does not feel that she belongs completely to either reality. She translates her discomfort primarily through her hair, which she cannot stand and thus becomes a mirror of what she feels is her difference.

In a mining town in northern Sweden, four young rappers fight to save their recording studio, threatened by unstable ground. Their struggle represents a generation facing a fragmented and lacerated world.

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Set in LA, this raw and unfiltered vérité documentary follows three struggling addicts through a single day of survival.

After his time in the boy band "Equinoccio", Billy Lozano is in his late thirties very frustrated with his life, he lives with all the comforts in the house of his dreams, but he feels like the biggest loser in the world since his last entrepreneurship failed once again, he has no other occupation but to take care of his son and his wife's dog. Until one day he meets Monica, an ex-fan of "Equinoccio" who moves in the house in front of them and encourages him to resume his artistic career.

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February 24, 1985 at The Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey