Raiders of the Lost Art Special: Art of the Silk Road & Tang Dynasty (2016)
In the 1960s, archaeologists working in China made an extraordinary discovery. They unsealed the twelve-hundred-year-old tomb of a princess. Its walls were covered in magnificent murals - an unprecedented glimpse into life during the Tang dynasty. This documentary tells the fascinating story of the great Empire that made those murals, of the Silk Road that connected it to the world, and of the rebellions and disaster Cast Charles Darwent Charles Hill Martin Bailey Calandra Caldecott Tabitha Becker-Kahn Mark Steere Jonathan Kydd Nicholas Audsley Joseph Lindoe
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Simply A Masterpiece
Good story, Not enough for a whole film
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.