Bill Randa est convaincu que l'île de Skull Island est peuplée de créatures qu'on ne retrouve nulle part ailleurs sur le globe. Il forme une équipe bigarrée, formée de militaires, d'aventuriers et de scientifiques, pour aller explorer cette contrée non répertoriée. Rapidement, Bill arrive à prouver ses suppositions et le groupe est attaqué par un immense gorille appelé Kong, qui ne laisse que quelques survivants. Ceux-ci tenteront de se rendre vivants à l'autre bout de l'île afin d'atteindre le point de rendez-vous et être enfin déportés de cet endroit terrifiant. Le chemin pour atteindre la liberté sera peuplé de dangers et de monstres plus effrayants les uns que les autres.
Set right before the fall of Thailand's old capital, Ayuttaya, Bang Rajan draws on the legend of a village of fighters who bravely fended off the Burmese armies. With no support from the Royal army, the villagers drives the invading Burmese away many times until their names have become legendary during the time. As each subsequent battles becomes fiercer, the villagers tries to forge a canon to battle the enemy in a final battle where everyone, women and children included, die in combat.
Set along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.