在英國軍事專家詹姆斯康拉德上尉(Tom Hiddleston 飾)的保護下,科學探險隊一行人包括反戰攝影師(Brie Larson 飾)受神祕政府組織君主MONARCH的負責人比爾朗達(John Goodman 飾)雇用,前往骷髏島深處,在地面探索怪獸確實存在的證據。 而空中調查由美國軍事團戰功顯赫、即將退役的普雷斯頓帕卡德中校(Samuel L. Jackson 飾)領軍,率領直昇機隊穿越骷髏島外圍迷霧,一窺骷髏島的神祕地帶,卻因為火藥勘測驚醒了島上的覇主金剛…。
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.