Republican Era China

Kingdom 4: Return of the Great General
HDWhile Qin continues to fight for the unification of the region, its neighboring country invades Qin from the north.

Black Dog
HDReleased from jail, Lang returns to his hometown in Northwest China. As part of a dog patrol tasked with clearing stray dogs before the 2008 Olympics, he bonds with a black stray. The two lonely souls embark on a new journey toget...

Total Trust
HDTwo families fight for justice from within the digital prison of the Chinese surveillance state.

Kung Fu
S03E13HDA quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman, Nicky Shen, to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to find her hometown overrun with crime and ...

Shanghai Surprise
HDShanghai, 1938: A missionary woman hires a fortune hunter to help her find 1100 lbs. opium lost, as wounded need the morphine. Adventure and romance follows.

Shanghai Kiss
HDAn Asian-American actor, living in Los Angeles, is forced to reconsider his roots as well as the possibilities afforded him by his present situation after suddenly inheriting his grandmother's home in Shanghai.

Up the Yangtze
HDAt the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.

Seventh Moon
HDMelissa/Amy Smart and her Chinese American husband honeymoon in China during Hungry Ghost Festival. At night at a village they discover, the legend is real.

Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
HDThe Murrow, Polk, and IDA Award-winning documentary Boogie Man is about Lee Atwater, a blues-playing rogue whose rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a political rock star. He mentored George W. Bush and Karl Rove w...

Frost/Nixon
HDA dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.

John Rabe
HDA true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

The Everlasting Flame
HDA documentary covering the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

East Wind Rain
HDThe story of spies working for different countries attempting to decode coded weather forecasts. The coded weather forecasts were intended for Japanese diplomats working overseas and alerting them to an imminent attack. If within ...

Shanghai
HDA '40s period piece which revolves around an American expat who returns to Shanghai in the months before Pearl Harbor due to the death of his friend.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
HDA story set in nineteenth-century China and focusing on the life-long friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid social norms imposed on women.

The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
HDA son's riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colby's son Carl, the story is at once a probing history of the CIA, a personal mem...

Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon
HDBased on "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Luo Guangzhong. It ranks as one of China's four most important pieces of literature.

Monkey King: Hero Is Back
HDThe all-powerful Monkey King was imprisoned by the Gods for 500 years, but when a child releases him from his curse, the Monkey King must now save an innocent village from the evil Mountain Lord and his monstrous army.

The Last Emperor
HDThe story of the final Emperor of China.

The Untouchables
HDDuring the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone and, because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him.

Enter the Forbidden City
HDDuring the celebrations of the Emperor's 80th birthday, an opera troupe from southern China is invited to come to Beijing to perform for the Emperor. Afterwards, the opera troupe is allowed to stay in Beijing, and they become what...

Empire of the Sun
HDA young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.

Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
HDWhen the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the myst...

Eat a Bowl of Tea
HDA study in culture bridging, including ... a new US-born husband, trying to work within the traditional ways, a new China-born wife, eager to join the "dream" of America, two family-minded fathers, lots of gender-related social bi...

The Woman in Black
HDA lawyer travels to a small seaside town to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman, but soon becomes ensnared in something much more sinister.

The Hunt for Red October
HDIn November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain, in a new undetectable sub, violates orders and heads for the U.S. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect, or to start a war?

Patriot Games
HDWhen CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.

The Crying Game
HDA British soldier kidnapped by IRA terrorists soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.

The Coming War on China
HDFrom award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
HDThe history of nuclear weapons between 1945 until 1963.

Michael Collins
HDNeil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.

Camp Belvidere
HDCamp Belvidere is the story of camp leader Rose and how her friendship with Gin, the camp nurse, evolves into a passionate love affair.