Ang Lee adapta o livro da autora chinesa Eileen Chang para um forte drama sobre desejo e determinação ambientado na China dos anos 40, durante a ocupação japonesa. Uma jovem mulher se torna a peça principal em um plano para assassinar um impiedoso agente de Inteligência.
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
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.
Um olhar cronológico sobre o fiasco no Iraque, especialmente as decisões tomadas na primavera de 2003 - e os antecedentes daqueles que tomam decisões - imediatamente após a derrubada de Saddam: nenhum plano de ocupação, uma equipe inadequada para governar o país, tropas insuficientes para manter a ordem, e três decretos da Casa Branca anunciados por Bremmer quando assumiu.
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.