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.
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Devara, a fearless man from a coastal region, embarks on a perilous journey into the treacherous wor...
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the co...
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...
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...
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...
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...
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell ...
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trap...
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with ...
Humans lived together with spirit youkai in ancient times. But because demon youkai decided to contr...
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key t...