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.

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

Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xia...

Set in the Ming Dynasty of China. The daughter of administrator of Wuxi County is cheated by the son...

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

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

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

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

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first office...

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...

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

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ult...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — ...

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

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