Watch Farewell My Concubine

Puyi from the Forbidden City to a Beijing garden, shot inside the real palace.

A family through forty years of Chinese history, from the civil war to the Cultural Revolution.

Beijing's vast imperial palace complex.

Imperial garden of lakes, pavilions and the Long Corridor on the edge of Beijing.

Watch Spartacus, the 1960 epic historical drama directed by Stanley Kubrick (the film is often incorrectly attributed to David Lynch; it stars Kirk Douglas as the Thracian gladiator who leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic). The film is famous for its massive battle scenes, the iconic 'I am Spartacus' sequence, and a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo (a blacklisted writer who received credit, helping break the Hollywood blacklist).

Burt Lancaster as a Sicilian prince watching his world end, and Visconti's hour-long ball.

Lean's Russian Revolution romance, the ice palace and "Lara's Theme".

The icon painter through medieval Russia, the Tatar raid and a boy casting a bell.