From "Quest for Fire," to "The Last Emperor," this book presents the history of the world as seen through the movies. Lavishly illustrated is 20,000 years of life as we know it best - as recorded on celluloid. Proceeding chronologically from prehistory through antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance up to the twentieth century, author Baird Searles examines more than 150 films devoted to re-creating the many discoveries, adventures, coronations,...