I'd particularly be interested in seeing a depiction of warfare, or daily life under an empire or something.
I have images of this stuff when I think about Medieval Europe, or Ancient Rome , but this stuff draws a lot of blanks in other parts of the world.
Any suggestions?
central asia is a no go on screen unless one of the republics have done an epic since the 90s ive not heard of
but one can certainly get a feel for the material culture through a wealth of well documented artifacts, collected places like here or here also look up the kizil caves
being in the center as it were one can see the influence of chinese, persian, indian, and steppe culture in their stuff. its very neat
How about The Fall of Otrar?
there we go 90s film from kazakhfilm. ill have to give a watch lol. wasnt sure which modern republic actually contained khwarzm to be honest
I haven't seen it but I've heard good things. There's talk of a restoration, so maybe the Film Foundation's World Cinema Project will release it someday. The version I linked has well-nigh unreadable subtitles.