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Pulled into the pages of a fantasy novel, a woman is shocked to find herself stuck in the role of a villain. Now, she must battle to rewrite her destiny.

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Tired of just scraping by, an ambitious janitor scams and schemes his way to the good life in 1980s Poland amid changing regimes and personal chaos.

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Ewa Oginiec wants to leave the secret service and start over after a personal tragedy but things take a turn when her partner, also an agent, is exposed by Russian intelligence and mysteriously disappears.

Cheng Qingfeng lost his parents at a young age and lived with his older brother, Cheng Lang. He was shocked to witness his brother sacrificing his own wife and child to escape from enemies. Thankfully, Qingfeng managed to save his nephew, Jia Bao. From then on, Qingfeng lost contact with his brother. He settled in a rural area and entrusted Jia Bao's upbringing to a kind-hearted man named Bing. Eighteen years later, Qingfeng learned exceptional martial arts skills and disguised himself as a simple-minded doctor. In reality, he was the legendary vigilante known as the Dragon Shadow Hero, who upheld justice and punished evil. His fellow disciple, Zongxin, always accompanied and supported him. In order to reunite with Bing and Jia Bao, Qingfeng traveled to a place called 'Treasury City.' On his way, he learned about a local tyrant named You Wanjin, who oppressed the people with his power. This fueled Qingfeng's determination to visit Treasury City even more...

Join Alan Watts in season one of On Eastern Wisdom & Modern Life. His inaugural season introduces and begins to break down our understanding of what is and what could be.

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Sha Tang, a wildlife photographer from Guangxi, travels to Fuyuan to find a rare albino bear. There, he crosses paths with Lin Manyue, a spirited Hezhe girl, and the two reluctantly team up. As they pose as a couple for personal reasons, their playful clashes slowly turn into genuine affection against the scenic beauty of Fuyuan.

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Rick Stein takes an epic culinary journey by sea, down rivers and overland to explore the Far East's diverse food cultures.

Examine the genesis of spiritual thought of historic nations in the Eastern Hemisphere, including China, Japan, and India. This philosophical journey focuses on the doctrines of Confucianism, Shinto, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam.

Join Alan Watts in season one of On Eastern Wisdom & Modern Life. His inaugural season introduces and begins to break down our understanding of what is and what could be.

Boxing from Eastern Parkway is an American sports program broadcast by the DuMont Television Network from May 1952 to May 1954. The program aired boxing matches from Eastern Parkway Arena in Brooklyn, New York. The program aired Monday nights at 10pm ET and was 90 to 120 minutes long. During the 1953-1954 season, the program aired Mondays at 9pm ET.

Get a sweeping 1,000-year history of Eastern Europe with a particular focus on the region's modern history. You'll observe waves of migration and invasion, watch empires rise and fall, witness wars and their deadly consequences-and come away with a comprehensive knowledge of one of the world's most fascinating places.

London Sounds Eastern was one of the most popular ethnic minority radio program's on the BBC. It was presented by Vernon Corea and produced by Keith Yeomans.

National Parks of the Midwest and Eastern U.S.

On May 8 (Sun.), NUMBER GIRL and eastern youth, who are close friends, will be performing together for the first time in over 20 years at "FAN CLUB," an event that NUMBER GIRL used to hold in the early stages of their career. Space Shower TV will exclusively air the performance by NUMBER GIRL and eastern youth that roared through Hibiya Noon, along with a talk by Hidenori Mukai (NUMBER GIRL) and Hisashi Yoshino (eastern youth) after the show, and close backstage footage.

«Jin Yong Wuxia Universe» (金庸武侠世界 / The Legend of Heroes) is a martial arts series based on the novels of Jin Yong, with «The Legend of the Condor Heroes» as its main plotline. The series weaves together two dramatic stories – «Hot Blooded» (30 episodes) and «Duel on Mount Hua» (30 episodes), the latter encompassing four character arcs: «Nine Yin True Sutra» (8 episodes), «Eastern Heretic and Western Venom» (8 episodes), «Southern Emperor and Northern Beggar» (8 episodes), and «Five Great Masters» (6 episodes).

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former East German spy resolves to find out who betrayed her and why — and use her lethal skills to exact revenge.

Finding truth at the intersection of fantasy and reality in the veiled world of professional wrestling.

In 2050 Riyadh, elder Asma's richly captivating storytelling transports her cherished grandchildren to fabled times where they learn that modern-day dilemmas are no match for the trials, tribulations and words of wisdom passed from generation to generation through their fascinating folktales.

Dramatic events unfold in Croatia and Ukraine. The first girl drowned, the second one died from a drug overdose. The main suspect in these deaths, however, soon turns out to be innocent - and dead too. While detective Vladimir and reporter Stribor struggle to solve these murders in Croatia, the niece of Olga, an Ukrainian philanthropist, goes missing in Kyiv.

The story of an American Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent going undercover to stop an organization from trafficking people, and the struggles of three trafficked women.

An adventures of a Berlin family spending summer in haunted house.

Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women were affected by this political system, one of the most unjust and bloodiest in history. Using newly discovered propaganda films and archival photos, these four episodes explore the mysteries of this totalitarian political machine that lured its share of important followers into the fold. Known as the red church, communism seduced its ardent followers like some earthly religion.

The Power of Myth is a television series originally broadcast on PBS in 1988 as Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. The documentary comprises six one-hour conversations between mythologist Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers.

Based on true stories about real homicide investigations in the south of Sweden between 1989-2004. A reality-based crime drama about the policeman Per-Åke Åkesson and the reconnaissance group that was tasked with investigating several murders of women in northeastern Skåne. The series starts in Hörby in 1989.

1949. Grafenberg in Brandenburg shortly before the foundation of the GDR. Here lives Michel Hollmann and works in roadmaking. His purpose in life are his wife Lotte and the two children Gerda and Heinz, for whom he is reconstructing a summerhouse into a “nest”. In Grafenberg, his siblings are living as well: His brother Karl, the mayor, and sister-in-law Edith, who works in a textile factory, with their son Jürgen. Edeltraut, his sister, has married the lamp fabricant Berthold Bennert and leads a well-off life. They as well have a son: Harald. Part of the family are further sister Hanna and brother-in-law Hermann, who is a fisherman on one of the local lakes and conducts a tenacious private war against old Stegewald and his presumptive prince-electoral rights. They are living their lives with their large and small conflicts, with different intentions, and yet remain connected always.

Michael Palin explores European countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain.

Mythos is a three-part documentary that consists of a series of lectures given by Joseph Campbell. Campbell conceived of the original lectures, filmed over the last six years of his life, as a summation of what he had learned about the human mythic impulse, in terms of psychology, ethnology and comparative mythology—what he called "the one great story of mankind."

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The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts video series was recorded in 1971 above Muir Woods, California, and in 1972 aboard the ferryboat the SS Vallejo in Sausalito. Produced by his son Mark and directed by long-time archivist Henry Jacobs, the series explores core philosophical themes that spawned over Watts' career.

In 1895 Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, amid preparations for a major trade fair, the murder of a wealthy nobleman occurs. Detective Aleksey Lykov investigates, uncovering a sinister plot that endangers his life as he pursues the truth.

A tight group of friends, fired with unquenchable energy and enthusiasm, has come together to help two friends shoot a music video in time to get to a big competition in East Helsinki. Minor setbacks are not going to faze them, but then come some major problems, threatening not only their jobs but their loyalty to each other.

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Tihani's marriage with Zaid ended abruptly. He proved to be a cheater and abuser, one night he accidentally pronounced the third divorce, causing Zaid to go mad.

Alfred de Montesquiou, a war correspondent for the Associated Press news agency and a journalist for Paris Match – for which he has covered most of the Arab Spring revolutions – will be our knowledge broker along the Silk Road, the mythical network of trade routes that for centuries linked the Far East to the West. Follow in the footsteps of illustrious predecessors, from Alexander the Great to Marco Polo. Journey through time, encountering specialists, historians, or just everyday people with a passion who will help you grasp the past and present identities of those countries. From Bursa in Turkey to Xi’an in China, Alfred guides and accompanies you in this fresh and original way to discover History.

Extreme Pilgrim is a British television series which was first broadcast by the BBC in January 2008. The series is presented by the Anglican vicar, Pete Owen-Jones who is researching the path of enlightenment and spirituality which he sees as having been lost by those in West.

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.

Absolutely Canadian is a Canadian television series, which airs weekdays on CBC Newsworld, CBC Television and CBC Country Canada. A news and information series about Canadian communities, the show is anchored each week from a different Canadian city.