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Chronicles the period of Qin Shihuang's rule, in third century BC China. He not only gave China its name, but he unified China and built the Great Wall. Includes the first documentary images of the 7,000 life-size terra cotta warriors and horses that stand guard over his tomb.

During the winters, since times predating agriculture, the Cree people of Mistassini have gone to the bush of the James and Ungava Bay area to hunt. Three hunting families agreed to meet an NFB film crew, who filmed the building of the winter camp, the hunting, the relationship w...

Ying Zheng became king of the Chinese kingdom of Qin at 13. In his early 20s, he began to rule in his own name, and immediately set about consolidating China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Domestically, he standardized weights and measures, currency, written lang...

Shows the conflict produced by the James Bay development scheme between a hunting culture of Cree Indians and the dominant white culture that has come to rely heavily on large-scale technology.