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.

Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his gi...

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qual...
In 1960s Nagaland, a proud Konyak chief struggles to protect his dying traditions when an American m...

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who m...

Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tomm...

On April 12th, 1864, at an insignificant little fort, several hundred black Union soldiers fought a ...

After a series of assassinations in Nanking, a Japanese spy master gathers a group of suspects in a ...

When barbarian hordes threaten her homeland, the brave and cunning Mulan disguises herself as a male...

This is the true and astounding saga of the Spartans at Thermopylae. It is among the greatest tales ...

This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor o...

To Qiu Shui, a young lad in his most hungry, curious, and restless 20s, the whole world feels a litt...

Set right before the fall of Thailand's old capital, Ayuttaya, Bang Rajan draws on the legend of a v...

Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict betw...

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...

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

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the co...

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...

When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assi...