Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.

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At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

The Korean War saw three years of heavy combat take place on the small Korean peninsula, ending in a...

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A boy living with his grandmother in the mountains refuses to migrate in the new village. Everyday h...

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...

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For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being acc...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...

When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assi...

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a...

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafirista...

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in...

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...

Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attem...