13 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 14th Century
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Conquest 1453
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia The 14th Century The 7th CenturyThe fall of an empire will be the rise of another. — After the death of his father Murat II, Mehmet II ascends to the Ottoman throne. After braving internal and external enemies, he decides to complete what he was destined to do: Conquer Constantinople.
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The Horde
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇷🇺 Russia The 14th CenturyIt is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs. To be or not to be for Rus (Ruthenia), that is the price of the one-man mission as he is departing to this world to accomplish a feat. The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani-Beg's mother, from blindness, in 1357.
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Season of the Witch
🇦🇹 Austria 🇸🇮 Slovenia 🇹🇷 Turkey The 14th CenturyNot all souls can be saved. — A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.
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Journey to Mecca
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇾 Syria The 14th CenturyIn the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta — The 20 year old Muslim religious law student Ibn Battuta (1304–1368), whose full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammed Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta, set out from Tangier, a city in northern Morocco, in 1325, on a pilgrimage to Mecca, some 3,000 miles (over 4,800 km) to the East. The journey took him 18 months to complete and along the way he met with misfortune and adversity, including attack by bandits, rescue by Bedouins, fierce sand storms and dehydration.
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A Frozen Flower
🇰🇷 South Korea The 14th CenturyFor His Last Love, Fate Led Him To Betray His First Love. — A historical drama set in the Koryo dynasty and focused on the relationship between a king and his bodyguard. Under the dominance of Yuan Dynasty China, the king of Goryeo Dynasty Korea is pressured to produce a successor to the throne. Unable to make love to his queen because he is in love with his bodyguard, Hong Lim, the king asks the two of them to sleep together instead. This sexual contact formulates a forbidden love between Hong Lim and the Queen.
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The Maidens' Conspiracy
🇹🇷 Turkey The 15th Century The 14th CenturyConstantinople, XV century. The ladies' complot — Constantinople, 1401. The emperor of Byzantium asks the famous knight Tirant lo Blanc to free the city from the siege of the Turks. After his victory, Tirant will have to face a more difficult task: to overcome the natural opposition of Carmesina, heiress to the Ottoman Empire, to surrender her most precious treasure.
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Princess Mononoke
🇯🇵 Japan The 16th Century The 15th Century The 14th CenturyThe Fate Of The World Rests On The Courage Of One Warrior. — Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
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King and Emperor
🇨🇳 China The 14th CenturyThe King meets the Emperor — Set in the 14th century, a brewing friendship between the Chinese Emperor Yong Le and the King of Sulu, Paduka Pahala is forged upon the latter's visit to China.
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Karamurat
🇹🇷 Turkey The 14th CenturyAn adventure movie directed by Ernst Hofbauer and Natuk Baytan.
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A Touch of Zen
🇨🇳 China The 14th CenturyMing dynasty noblewoman Yang must escape from the evil eunuch Hsu. She seeks refuge at a decrepit town where she gets assistance from a naïve scholar and a group of mysterious yet powerful monks.
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Andrei Rublev
🇷🇺 Russia The 14th CenturyAn expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.
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Marco the Magnificent
🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇳 China 🇲🇳 Mongolia The 14th Century The 13th CenturyA story of endurance, savagery and heroism — Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.
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Marco Polo
🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇳 China The 14th Century The 13th CenturyItalian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.
