Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-chiang-kai-shek"

1. American Gangster (2007)

R | 157 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin

Votes: 454,101 | Gross: $130.16M

2. Go (1999)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime

The aftermath of a drug deal as told from three different points of view.

Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Sarah Polley, Jay Mohr, Scott Wolf, Taye Diggs

Votes: 75,519 | Gross: $16.84M

3. Lust, Caution (2007)

NC-17 | 157 min | Drama, History, Romance

During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, Leehom Wang

Votes: 45,652 | Gross: $4.60M

4. The Last Emperor (1987)

PG-13 | 163 min | Biography, Drama, History

Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying

Votes: 111,869 | Gross: $43.98M

5. Big Eyes (I) (2014)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter

Votes: 99,348 | Gross: $14.48M

6. The Painted Veil (2006)

PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, Romance

Dr Walter gets married to the beautiful Kitty but soon finds out that she is cheating on him. Battling his way through problems, he heads to China to fight a dreaded disease spread in a small village.

Director: John Curran | Stars: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Catherine An

Votes: 96,078 | Gross: $8.06M

7. Sleeper (1973)

PG | 89 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory

Votes: 44,902 | Gross: $2.91M

8. Your Name Engraved Herein (2020)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Romance

In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.

Director: Kuang-Hui Liu | Stars: Edward Chen, Jing-Hua Tseng, Leon Dai, Shih-Sian Wang

Votes: 7,978

9. The White Countess (2005)

PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, History, Romance

In 1930s Shanghai, a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd--and sometimes illicit--jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave

Votes: 6,991 | Gross: $1.67M

10. Never So Few (1959)

Approved | 125 min | Drama, War

During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen

Votes: 3,430

11. Devils on the Doorstep (2000)

139 min | Comedy, Drama, War

Villagers in World War II China are unsure what to do with the two enemy prisoners who have been left in their care.

Director: Wen Jiang | Stars: Wen Jiang, Kenya Sawada, Hongbo Jiang, Teruyuki Kagawa

Votes: 8,650 | Gross: $0.02M

12. Across the Pacific (1942)

Passed | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.

Directors: John Huston, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton

Votes: 5,466

13. Troma's War (1988)

R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A group of assorted Americans survive a plane crash in a Caribbean island, and discover it is infested with crawling snakes and other venomous beasts. Even worse, terrorists are preparing a full out war on America with a biological weapon.

Directors: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman | Stars: Carolyn Beauchamp, Sean Bowen, Rick Washburn, Patrick Weathers

Votes: 2,466

14. 24 City (2008)

Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Drama

When a factory is being torn down in Chengdu, China, workers reflect on their experiences and the importance of the factory in their lives.

Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Jianbin Chen, Joan Chen, Liping Lü, Tao Zhao

Votes: 2,354

15. H-8... (1958)

105 min | Drama, Thriller

A bus and a truck are destined to collide with each other on a highway. Their passengers go on about their lives without knowing what will happen.

Director: Nikola Tanhofer | Stars: Boris Buzancic, Djurdja Ivezic, Antun Vrdoljak, Vanja Drach

Votes: 1,706

16. John Rabe (2009)

134 min | Biography, Drama, History

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

Director: Florian Gallenberger | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl, Steve Buscemi, Anne Consigny

Votes: 6,749 | Gross: $0.07M

17. Red Cherry (1995)

120 min | Drama, War

It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the international school. She is 13; he is 12. Xiaoman is from Yanan, Mao's base after the ... See full summary »

Director: Daying Ye | Stars: Ke-Yu Guo, Xiao-Li Xu, Igor Ledogorov, Vyacheslav Butenko

Votes: 748

18. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)

R | 91 min | Documentary

A documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government.

Director: Alison Klayman | Stars: Ai Weiwei, Dan Ai, Lao Ai, Lee Ambrozy

Votes: 4,529 | Gross: $0.53M

19. Secret Agent of Japan (1942)

Passed | 72 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen, and is referred to Roy Bonnell (Preston ... See full summary »

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Noel Madison, Victor Sen Yung

Votes: 121

20. Général Ishiwara - L'homme qui déclencha la guerre (2012 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

From 1889 to 1949, General Ishiwara's military, ideological and political career took in the key moments of Japanese History, in a most spectacular way: the forced opening to the West, Hiroshima, the China war and Pearl Harbour.

Director: Paul Jenkins | Stars: Luce Mouchel, Frédéric Pellegeay, Ikuhiko Hata, Yôichi Higuchi

Votes: 26

21. Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)

Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, Biography

A chronicle of the life and career of silent film star Mary Pickford.

Director: Nicholas Eliopoulos | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Walt Disney, Amelia Earhart, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Votes: 223

22. Guangzhou Sanri Tucheng Ji (1937)

Drama, History, War

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Director: Wu Tsung-Lei | Stars: Sin-Yu Chan, Chung-Hap Hui, Yuen-Ching Tsang, Tat-Kwun Wu

23. Dogfights (2005– )
Episode: Flying Tigers (2006)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, History, War

The story and battles of the famed US Government supported American mercenary fighter pilots who flew in China in early World War II.

Director: Robert Kirk | Star: Phil Crowley

Votes: 26

24. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow: Burma - 1942-1944 (1974)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

Allied forces were totally unprepared for the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942. The Japanese quickly overran the country. The Allies counter-attacked using troops unfamiliar with jungle ... See full summary »

Director: John Pett | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Freddie Tomkins, Teruo Okada, J.G. Smyth

Votes: 375

25. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: Manchuria: The Forgotten Victory (2000)

Documentary, History, War

Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of the Soviet victory over the mighty Japanese Kwangtung Army in the mountains of Manchuria, which is one of the least known of the Second World War.

Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Aleksei Antonov, Henry H. Arnold, Kai-Shek Chiang

Votes: 6

26. Mark Felton Productions (2017– )
Episode: The Flying Tigers - America's Private Air Force (2021)

11 min | Documentary, History

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Star: Mark Felton

27. Hitler's Bodyguard (2008– )
Episode: Jewish and Emigre Attempts to Kill Hitler (2010)

TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History

As the Nazis amped up their anti-Semitic and expansionist activities, Jewish groups, Soviet Communists, and Otto Strasser's rival Black Front all targeted Hitler.

Directors: Jonathan Martin, Philip Nugus | Stars: Haj Amin Al-Husseini, Yitzhak Ben-Ami, Kai-Shek Chiang, Sepp Dietrich

Votes: 41

28. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Korea: Behind the Bamboo Curtain

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

Learn more about newly discovered documents that revealed Stalin's influence over China's Mao Tse Tung and Korea's Kim El Sung and the other hidden factors behind the first conflict of the Cold War.

Stars: Charlton Heston, Donald K. Chung, James G. Hershberg, Chen Jian

29. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: The O.S.S.

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, History, War

The story of the formation of the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor to the CIA. From the recruitment and training of secret agents to undercover missions, OSS agents played an ... See full summary »

Stars: Charlton Heston, Evan Thomas, Thomas F. Troy, Elizabeth McIntosh

30. World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode: The Gathering Storm (2009)

TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

The activities of nations after World War I that lead to World War II.

Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Paul von Hindenburg, Kai-Shek Chiang

Votes: 410

31. World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode: The Island War (2009)

TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

The Marines succeed in the "island hopping" strategy against suicidal resistance. The US Navy establishes supremacy, cutting off Japan. Re-capturing the Phillipines and Burma is costly, but now Japan is fully in the defensive.

Stars: Robert Powell, Douglas MacArthur, Chester W. Nimitz, Hideki Tôjô

Votes: 212

32. Dark Docs (2020– )
Episode: Japan's Most Desperate WW2 Attempt to Destroy the US Air Forces (2022)

14 min | Documentary, History

Rapidly losing control of the Pacific and aware of United States' plans to attack its home islands from airbases in China, Japan launches a massive effort to complete it's conquest of China.

33. Tucker on X (2023– )
Episode: Vivek Ramaswamy Is the Youngest Republican Presidential Candidate Ever. He's Worth Listening To. (2023)

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Tucker Carlson interviews Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican Party candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

Stars: Tucker Carlson, Vivek Ramaswamy

Votes: 27

34. How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode: The Best Laid Plans (2023)

Documentary, History, War

Explore how the seeds of Japan's defeat in 1945 were sown a decade earlier with the occupation of Manchuria in China.

Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Rana Mitter, Sandra Wilson, Yuma Totani, Guy Walters

35. How to Lose a War (2023)
Episode: The Homefront (2023)

Documentary, History, War

In our final episode, we examine how each Axis Power had troubles on their own home front, leading to disaster in the final days of the war.

Director: Tim Bosanquet | Stars: Alexander Henry, Giuseppe Finaldi, Russell A. Hart, Guy Walters

36. Military Masterminds (2022)
Episode: Guerrilla Warfare (2022)

52 min | Documentary, History, War

Looking at how Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Josip Broz Tito and Võ Nguyên Giáp used Guerrilla Warfare to overcome a militarily superior enemy.

Director: Roberto Irwin | Stars: Eric Y. Shibuya, Eric Gomez, James Rogers, William Leogrande

37. Voxday Darkstream (2017– )
Episode: Conservatism Was Always a Dead End (2019)

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Star: Vox Day