Tadanobu Asano, right, is Genghis Khan in 'Mongol.' There are some stories that are just too darn big to fit within the confines of a two-hour feature film. HBO took triple that time earlier this year ...

So “Mongol” was a nominee last year for the best foreign-language film Oscar? Yeah, that sounds about right. The Oscar voters tend to favor foreign films that are as much like Hollywood as possible, ...

Stunning vistas and savage battles elevate "Mongol," Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov's muscular telling of the early life of Genghis Khan. Born Temudgin in 1162, we meet the future leader as a young ...

The first thing to know about this Mongolian history show is that the khan in question is not Genghis. Instead, this soft-power bid from the tiny nation wriggling free of Russia and China (the latter ...

The epic story of a young Genghis Khan and how events in his early life led him to become a legendary conqueror. The 9-year-old Temüjin is taken on a trip by his father to select a girl as his future ...

LEWIS BEALE’S “More Than Just Surviving” [June 1] was superb. Russian director Sergei Bodrov’s Genghis Khan movie, “Mongol,” has shown us that unlike Alexander the Great, who dreamed of creating a ...