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Explore and connect the world through a cinematic lens
This Korean action movie featuring private military contractors offers many explosions—and biting, timely political critiques.
Meet the “Sharknado” of Chinese war movies: with US$65M worth of misery... and Bruce Willis.
"Wolf Warrior 2" breathes new life into the Chinese action genre—and appeals to foreign-born Chinese in the process.
This Oscar-nominated Danish/German film explores a little-known part of WWII's aftermath.
A 2013 Russian revisitation of WWII's arguably most important battle, complete with slick production quality and special effects.
Based on a true 2011 incident, Operation Mekong is China's first major foray into the US-dominated "foreign intervention action epic" genre.
2013 was a good year for Japanese aviation fans. Hayao Miyazaki released his magnum opus The Wind Rises, a fictionalized biopic of Jiro Horikoshi (the...
It’s always a guilty treat to watch a film in which America is the bad guy. There aren’t that many, probably because most nations that...
During the D-Day landings in 1944, American paratroopers captured an Asian man in Wehrmacht uniform. This man was Yang Kyoungjong, a Korean who had…
The Liberator is a Venezuelan biopic about South American revolutionary Simon Bolivar that is packed with both action and reminders of how Bolivar continues to...