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.

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legen...

The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escap...

Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine o...

A band of soldiers tasked with staying behind during the Battle of Dunkirk to rescue a scientist wit...

Bai Qian, a goddess and monarch from the Heavenly Realms, is sent to the mortal world to undergo a t...

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on bot...

Set in late 19th century Canton, this martial arts film depicts the stance taken by the legendary ma...

An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key t...

Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell ...

Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fell...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, le...

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in ...

Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they...

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...

The famous psychologist Xu Ruining has a raising career, when he met the troublesome patient Ren Xia...

Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span ne...

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formi...

A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Su...