During World War II, a secret agent must seduce then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.
В този епичен исторически филм, изпълнен с церемонии, ритуали и мащабни битки, Чен Кайге разказва стремежа на честолюбив крал да обидини цял Китай под свое управление през ІІ век пред Христа. На фона на отмъщения, предателства и граждански войни, кралят на Кин Инг Жен няма да се спре пред нищо за да обедини петте китайски кралства. Неговата любима наложница Жао, играна от Гонг Ли, е готова на всичко з да му помогне. Но тя неочаквано изпада под магията на Джин Ке - войн от вражеско кралство, противник на войната. Отначало неохотен да се бие с краля на Кин, той решава да предотврати убийството му. Но Ин Женг знае, че той идва...
Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore bides his time to determine which side is the winning one. This is at first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.
Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the backgrounds of those making decisions - immediately following the overthrow of Saddam: no occupation plan, an inadequate team to run the country, insufficient troops to keep order, and three edicts from the White House announced by Bremmer when he took over.
Some deeds done by a Nazi in France during World War II lead to more killings in the present. Are they revenge, or is there another motive? Both civilians and police tries to solve the mystery.
Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. The frank testimonials of six female Israeli soldiers stationed in Gaza and the West Bank sees the young women revisit their tours of duty in the occupied territories, and share shocking moments of negligence, flippancy, immaturity and power-tripping.
Five Guamanians interviewed in the early 2000s recall the Japanese bombing of Guam on 7 December 1941, and the years of food shortages, abuses, and other hardships that followed. They describe their childhood lives before, during, and after the island's occupation by Japanese soldiers.