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DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Kathmandu, the Valley of the Gods - even today the region's numerous temples, sanctuaries and shrines reflect the deeply held religious belief of the Nepalese people. For many centuries Kathmandu Valley, a fertile plain situated between Tibet and India, was an important junction for various trading and pilgrimage routes. For almost six hundred years the Malla Dynasty influenced the...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Even though the Mekong originates in the Tibetan Highlands and flows through China, its true source lies within South East Asia, in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, fascinating countries whose inhabitants can look back proudly on both a colourful and glorious past. Around thirty five kilometres from the capital of Pnohm Penh the jungle temple of Ta Prohm is a...

Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Various Locations In Peru, Portugal, China, Spain, Greece & Thailand High in the Peruvian Andes there is a place of sun worship and mysterious ritual, Machu Picchu. Even today the Lost City of the Inca's is like an amazing castle with steep ravines on three sides and on the fourth, a protective mountain range. The warm light of the first...

Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Various Locations In Italy, Morocco, Myanmar, Spain, Trinidad & China Pisa is a Renaissance city in western Tuscany located at the mouth of the River Arno and where historic monuments acknowledge the glory of this former maritime power. A place of remarkable monuments that also contains the artistic treasures of various Italian cities. Both spiritual and worldly treasures are in...

Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Various Locations In Italy, China, Thailand, France, India & Nepal The Colosseum Of Rome is the most monumental and impressive amphitheatre in the world. It is thought that its construction began in 72 AD by command of Emperor Vespasianus. Here, the Roman's desire for outrageous performance and violent entertainment were fully satisfied. In turn the Emperor's popularity grew with these...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. In addition to Meknes, F?s and Marrakesh, Morocco's capital city of Rabat is one of the country's historic four royal cities. Despite their differences, these cities share a common bond as they each contain the cultural and architectural treasures of a fascinating epoch. Rabat has a rich and colourful history and was first settled in the 8th century B.C....

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Nanuk is the leader of a dog team who, along with a group of four men, will travel through the remarkable though demanding terrain that is the Himalayas. The first leg of the potentially hazardous expedition travels more than three thousand five hundred metres above sea level to the high plains of Zanskar in the regions of both Jammu...

Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Early in the morning, mist cloaks the deep valleys of the Grand Canyon. Soon it clears to reveal a huge, magical world. Millions of years ago, erosion and the relentless power of the Colorado River created this magnificent landscape and even today the river continues to force its way through the rock, sand and mud of the Grand Canyon. The...

Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. An extensive, scant desert landscape surrounds the Petrified Forest National Park, east of Arizona. Two hundred million years ago this region was a swampland inhabited by various species of dinosaur whose fossilised remains can be found throughout the park. The sight of the magnificent rock formations of Bryce Canyon to the southwest of Utah is a truly breathtaking experience. In...

Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Just outside the town of Page in the state of Arizona, a narrow and unimpressive entrance leads into the mysterious world of Antelope Canyon. The Antelope Creek River has over the course of thousands of years cut a fascinating canyon into the red sandstone and created a natural work of art, a true celebration of form and colour, unearthly and...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Set amid the desert savannah of Syria are the proud remains of the unique and mysterious metropolis of Palmyra. The legendary ancient city was built in this vicinity due to the existence of an oasis, Tadmur, and today around thirty thousand people live in the surrounding area. The shortest and fastest route from the Mediterranean to Mesopotamia and Persia...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. The vast untouched grassy plains of the unique Massai Mara extend far beyond the horizon and seem to go on forever in what is the most important Nature Reserve in Kenya. An estimated 1.4 million wildebeest inhabit the picturesque mosaic of small hills and forests that line the riverbanks and huge grass covered plains of the Massai Mara which...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Unlike the hustle and bustle of the nearby city of Guilin in the Guangxi region in the heart of China, the landscape that follows the Lijiang River has a rural and idyllic atmosphere. Rural life here is blessed with beautiful scenery and the landscape around Guilin is synonymous with the magnificence of the legendary Middle Empire. A boat trip...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. It is particularly during the hot summer months that Death Valley does full justice to its name. On some days the temperatures here can reach up to forty five degrees Celsius in the shade, a rare commodity in this scant, treeless landscape. The bizarre landscape of the mysterious Devil's Cornfield really does seem to have been scorched by the...

DVD. 52 Minutes. The magnificent history of Siam began in1253 when several small kingdoms in the north of the country united and thus laid the foundation for the first true kingdom of the Thai people. Bangkok, the present metropolis and capital of Thailand, first attained importance at the end of the 18th century under the newly developed Chakri Dynasty when it became their seat of...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. With around three hundred and twenty thousand inhabitants Catania is the second largest city in Sicily. Its historical significance is clearly visible throughout the city's magnificent old district that is dominated by Baroque architecture. The city has few monuments that pre date the Baroque Period but it was not wars or battles that were responsible for this but a...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. South East Asia is a fascinating, atmospheric and exotic world full of unspoiled nature and cultural treasures and a region in which both past and present live side by side and unite in a wonderful way. Myanmar, The Land Of Golden Pagodas: for decades the rulers of what was once known as Burma closed the country's doors to the...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Active volcanoes and creatures reminiscent of the dinosaurs, the tiny Sundae Islands are like something from a bygone age. Indeed, this group of islands situated east of the Indonesian island of Java remained undiscovered for a surprising number of years. The village of Lamalera is situated in the south of the island, an area that has little fertile land...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Suomi: The Land Of A Thousand Lakes. No other European country is as influenced by the interplay of both water and land as Finland. The impressive beauty of its unspoiled scenery is plain to see and yet most of Finland, despite each wonderful aspect of its natural landscape, is still sparsely populated. Its endless forests truly make Finland one...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Taiwan is an island of gods, ghosts and pagodas with an abundance of legendary treasures and a cultural inheritance that can still be seen in all its age-old splendour. Numerous of its sanctuaries reflect the traditional culture of China and in contrast to the People's Republic, here Chinese culture has been extremely well preserved. With around two and a...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Wyoming

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. The Great Rift Valley is part of a huge geological fault in East Africa. This fascinating deep scar in the Earth's crust that divides Kenya in a north-south direction, extends for nine thousand kilometres within a wild and seemingly endless landscape. The fault is particularly famous for its soda, alkaline and freshwater lakes such as Lake Naivasha that is...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. Along the Rio Guadalquivir is C?rdoba. Today the former caliph's residence of the Omaiyad is a lively city with an historic past. In 152 B.C. the town was founded during the rule of Claudius Marcellu and it was then that the Roman conquerors named it Corduba. Later the town became the capital of the province of Baetica, the hot...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. With its three ancient Nepalese royal cities, Kathmandu Valley at the foot of the mighty Himalayas contains some of the most precious treasures in Asia along with a truly unique and mediaeval atmosphere. However, the beauty of this country and its historic buildings have for many years been out of the reach of most foreigners. And even today Nepal...

DVD. Cosmos Global Documentaries. 52 Minutes. The Tyrol is made up of untouched landscapes, idyllic mountain villages and a magnificent mountain world that makes this region that covers the west and southwest of Austria and Northern Italy, a nature lover's paradise. The Tyrol also contains the Hohe Tauern National Park that extends for more than eighteen hundred square kilometres and covers large sections of the...