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.

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...

Toni, Aghi, Bubu, and Saras get the task of making essays. They create a free school for street chil...

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

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Ge...

18-year-old Shengnan is invited to a mysterious party by her cousin. Upon arrival, Shengnan finds he...

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

In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers....

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz used submarines, a vessel used to great effect by Germany in WWI and WW...

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

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...

Three farming families in Hanyuan, China, strive to give their children a good life in the midst of ...