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, ...

The movies' first large-scale evocation of the life of Genghis Khan, the famed 12th-century marauder of Asia, was the unintentionally campy 1956 epic "The Conqueror," which was filmed in the Utah ...

Perhaps the most reliable modern empirical gauge of a movie’s effectiveness is this: How fast does it send you to Wikipedia? The faster, the better, because that means you’ve got to know more. In the ...

In the Oscar-nominated, Russian-financed historical epic "Mongol," history's greatest subjugator -- Genghis Khan -- finally gets the respect he deserves with a no-nonsense drama and an all-Asian cast, ...

A movie centering on the early life of Genghis Khan is marauding into U.K. theaters as indie British company the Works U.K. Distribution corralled U.K. rights to the movie "Mongol" from Beta Cinema ...

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 ...