The Silk Road Gift Box 1

330 Minutes
Catalog Number: CPM 1008-3
List Price: $99.95
Release Date: 5/5/98
Now available from CENTRAL PARK MEDIA at a new, low price! See the famous Silk Road, the ancient trade route between Rome and China. Featuring beautiful cinematography and the music of Kitaro, this is perhaps the best documentary ever produced. Contains episodes 1-6. Individual episodes are still available at $29.95 apiece.

An Ancient World of Adventure

A panoramic tour examining the world's most historic and inaccessible locations, Silk Road escorts the viewer on the ancient path travelled by Marco Polo, linking the riches of China with the European markets of the Middle Ages.

The first major co-production between China and the outside world, Silk Road was photographed over the course of ten years, and at a cost of over $50 million. It holds the distinction of being the highest rated documentary series in Japan's broadcast history, and has been broadcast to rave reviews in over 25 countries.

Enjoy the excitement of travelling through time and space, to a long-gone world whose art, culture, and history in artifacts and the daily lives of its people. The scope and span of Asia, its mystery and intrigue, are yours to treasure in each program of the Silk Road video collection.

The enchanting appeal of Silk Road's renowned soundtrack has made the composer-performer, Kitaro, a worldwide star.

A Thousand Kilometers Beyond the Yellow River
In A Thousand Kilometers Beyond the Yellow River, you will leave Xi-an
and cross the Yellow River on a goat-skin raft. You will gaze in awe at the giant Buddha at Bing-li-si, and enter the secret caves, never before filmed by a television crew. You will traverse the forbidding He-xi Corridor, a long and narrow defile between the Oi-lian Mountains and the Gobi Desert. This former battleground of the Huns was bitterly conquered by the Chinese for its real treasure-the Heavenly Western Horses which gave the Huns their fearsome military power. You will stroll the streets of the citadel town of Zhang-ye, and visit the Nie-pan Buddha, already two hundred years old when Marco Polo lived here in the fourteenth century.
55 Minutes in Length

The Dark Castle
In The Dark Castle, you will encounter the ghost castle of Khara-khoto,
250 miles from the oasis of Jiu-chang, near the Qilian Mountains in the Gobi Desert. This legendary lost city was obliterated from the face of the Earth by Genghis Khan, who exterminated the Tangut people who built it. Buried by the Gobi sands, it was unearthed by the Russian explorer Koslov, who took its artworks to the Hermitage. The castle has stood unentered for fifty years, since the locals refuse to enter the cursed grounds. YoLi will embark on a Mongol camel journey from Narnborg, traverse the desert, and enter the castle gates-alone!
55 Minutes in Length

In Search of the Kingdom of Lou-Lan
In In Search of the Kingdom of Lou-Ian, you will learn of the lost kingdom of LoLi-lan, which vanished into the sands of the desert when the nearby lake Lop Nor moved away! You will join the first journey in halt a century to seek Lou-Ian from Yan-guan on the eastern tip of the Taklamakan Desert, 1,200 miles west of Xi-an, in a secure military zone normally forbidden to visitors. You will find relics of the Silk Road trade over a millenium ago, and you will be the first to unearth a mummy from a grave hidden for more than 2,000 years!
55 Minutes in Length

Accross the Taklamakan Desert

In Across the Takiamakan Desert, yoo will be the first foreign visitors in over seventy-five years to the ancient Buddhist city of Miran, southwest of the legendary kingdom of Lou-Ian. You will meet the Uighurs of the oasis town of Cherchen, near the Kun-lun molintains, and then attempt to cross the Taklarnakan Desert, which means "The place from which nothing living returns"' After losing your way in the 120 degree heat, you will stumble into the ruins of Niya, and then attempt a night escape across the desert to safety!
55 Minutes in Length

Glories of Ancient Chang-an

In Glories of Ancient Chang-an you will visit modern day Xi-an, formerly Chang-an, thie starting point of the Silk Road and the world's largest city when it was the capital of Tan Dynasty China in the seventh century. You will see the incredible Clay Army of Emperor Oin Huang Di, who united China and buit the Great Wall. Buried for almost 2,000 years, the unearthing of the Clay Army was an archeological triumph-and the Silk Road crew were the first foreigners allowed to photograph it. You will thrill to the sculptures of Emperor Gaozong's tomb-the world's largest-50 miles west of Xi-an. You will enter China s most hallowed Buddhist temple, climb the Great Wall, and examine the hidden underground murals of Princess Yong-tai.
55 Minutes in Length

The Art Gallery in the Desert
In The Art Gallery in the Desert, you will tour the world-famous Ma-gao Caves at Dun-Huang-over 500 caves, more than 30 miles in length, with 3,000 murals and statues-in the middle of the Gobi Desertt Dating from 366 AD, and encompassing the art styles of Greece, India and the many dynasties of China. these caves hand-tunnelled into the Mingsha Mountains are a tour-deforce of religious art, They exemplify man's striving to create a legacy of his accomplishments and beliefs. Art scholars dream of visiting these caves-now you will examine the priceless treasures yourself, and know why!
55 Minutes in Length

Technical Information:

Package Design: 1990
Rated: Not Rated
Studio: Central Park Media
Length: Approximately 330 Minutes

All are Factory Recording in SP Mode (Standard Play)
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