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.

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has b...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

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

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

In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but...

In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Kore...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and runnin...

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife...

The story of writer Xiao Hong comes alive through memories of her great love affair, literary influe...

Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born...

Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers on their way to military prison are beset up...

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work...

A drive-by shooting in Venice, California, changes the lives of five people forever. States of Grace...

A band of Vikings cross enemy lines and a panicked race begins. The losers will pay with their lives...

A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of G...

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which...

Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they'...

A glamorous Hong Kong performer struggles to make a home in suburban 1960s Australia.