A married couple living in a desolate small town in post-WWII China are paid a surprise visit by an old friend of the husband's.

In the spring of 1949, a war is about to happen between the Liberation Army and Kuomintang Army on the Yangtze River. The Liberation Army dispatches...

Ashima is a brave and beautiful girl of the Sani people, beloved by all. One day as she is down at the lake to fetch water, she hears the sound of a...

The events that take place on a city bus taken daily by workers, students, intellectuals, housewives and schoolchildren are depicted, and the lives...

A family split between Taiwan and the mainland.

The Shore of Yanming Lake

A street-wise and tough orphan called Maverick is arrested for a petty theft and sent to an orphanage, but succeeds in concealing a watch he had...

In pre-communism China, a widowed man falls in love with a young colleague who's the same age as his own children.

During the war against Japan, a young woman fell into the enemy's spy organization, and engaged in a series of espionage activities, before being...

Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xiaoje, excels at basketball but is unsure of...

A man who becomes wealthy starts to have an affair and though his wife knows of it, she says nothing. Soon, the affair starts to have consequences...

A Chinese drama

Fifty years of modern Chinese history (1900-1950), including wars, revolutions and corrupt politics, as seen through the life and times of a simple...

To restore communications to the island of Hainan, the People's Army sends scouts across the Palm Grove Strait to the Leizhou Peninsula, where the...

The passenger ship Haiyan, with more than a thousand people aboard, sails through a thick fog at night. Despite having the knowledge that there are...

In 1936, the Long March of the Red Army passed through the Tibetan area by the Jinsha River. The Kuomintang colluded with the great local tyrant Qiu...