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1. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Approved | 102 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A widowed Chinese-English doctor falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist Revolution.
Directors: Henry King, Otto Lang | Stars: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom
Votes: 5,375
2. The Crossing (I) (2014)
129 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the midst of the Chinese Revolution during the late 1940s, couples flee to the island of Taiwan.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Song Hye-kyo, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Masami Nagasawa
Votes: 2,092
3. The Founding of a Republic (2009)
138 min | Drama, History, War
Inspired by true events, Founding of a Republic weaves a rousing tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
Directors: Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang | Stars: Guoqiang Tang, Guoli Zhang, Qing Xu, Jin Liu
Votes: 3,871
4. The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
R | 125 min | Drama, War
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh
Votes: 9,984 | Gross: $1.03M
5. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori, Walter Connolly
Votes: 4,302
6. The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014)
Not Rated | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
A story focusing on a conflict between a People's Liberation Army squad and a bandit gang in north-east China during the Chinese revolution.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Hanyu Zhang, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Kenny Lin, Nan Yu
Votes: 3,350 | Gross: $0.23M
7. Assembly (2007)
124 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, Wenkang Yuan, Yan Tang
Votes: 7,334
8. The Crossing 2 (2015)
131 min | Drama, History, Romance
A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xiaoming Huang, Song Hye-kyo
Votes: 1,445
9. Beginning of the Great Revival (2011)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, History
A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Directors: Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang | Stars: John Woo, Chow Yun-Fat, Bingbing Fan, Daniel Wu
Votes: 6,405 | Gross: $0.15M
10. The Rebel (2021)
45 min | Drama, History, Mystery
In 1936, Lin Nan Sheng, a student of the China Reconstruction Society cadre training class, was taken to Shanghai to participate in the arrest of the underground party.
Stars: Yilong Zhu, Zhiwen Wang, Wayne Wang, Zixian Zhang
Votes: 171
11. Hong Kong (1952)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The theft of a jeweled treasure is within an adventurer's grasp when he is restrained by his love for a good woman. Now he must help her and the kid he was hired to rob escape as the Chinese Civil War nears Hong Kong.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Nigel Bruce, Marvin Miller
Votes: 253
12. The Founding of an Army (2017)
133 min | Action, Drama, History
The foundation of CCP army in 1927, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province.
Director: Andrew Lau | Stars: Ye Liu, Yawen Zhu, Zhizhong Huang, Hao Ou
Votes: 1,089
13. World War Two (2018– )
Documentary, History, War
The events of the Second World War as they happened 78 years ago are covered each week.
Stars: Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Astrid Deinhard-Olsson, Shani Neidell Beard
Votes: 82
14. Tell It to the Marines (1926)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A gruff Marine sergeant and a handsome new recruit compete for the affection of a nurse.
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Lon Chaney, William Haines, Eleanor Boardman, Eddie Gribbon
Votes: 1,621 | Gross: $0.74M
15. Liberation (2019)
103 min | Drama, War
Based on real life events, the film is set in January 1949 and focuses around a group of soldiers involved in the final stages of the Battle of Pingjin
Directors: Xiaoyang Chang, Shaohong Li | Stars: Yiwei Zhou, Wallace Chung, Elane Zhong, Xun Wang
Votes: 76
16. All Quiet in Beiping (2014– )
45 min | Drama, History
Directed by Kong Sheng and produced by Hou Hong Liang who are famous for their work on titles such as 'Battle of Changsha', and 'Nirvana in Fire', while written by screen writer Liu He Ping... See full summary »
Stars: Ye Liu, Yinan Wang, Xinming Yang, Yang Yue
Votes: 137
17. West of Shanghai (1937)
Passed | 64 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Karloff is the Chinese warlord Fang, who holds a group of oilmen and missionaries hostage in a remote Chinese outpost.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Boris Karloff, Beverly Roberts, Ricardo Cortez, Gordon Oliver
Votes: 412
18. Feng zheng (2017–2018)
45 min | Drama
Zheng Yao-Xian is a CPC spy code-named Kite and lurks in the Nationalist secret service.
Stars: Yunlong Liu, Mingyang Liu, Xun Wang, Xiaoran Li
Votes: 50
19. Ba er san pao zhan (1986)
Drama, War
Director: Shan-Hsi Ting | Stars: Chun-Hsiung Ko, Ya-Tung Sun, Michael Jong-Quin Huang, Ching Chang
Votes: 24
20. The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017)
TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to become U.S. citizens.
Directors: Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu | Stars: Hoon Lee, Mae Ngai, Jean Pfaelzer, David Lei
Votes: 104
21. Axis of War: My Long March (2006 Video)
History, War
MY LONG MARCH is the second part in the thrilling AXIS OF WAR saga, set set during the Nanchang uprising of the Chinese Civil War in 1927.
Directors: Jia Wang, Jun Yang, Junjie Zhai | Stars: Roger Maxime, Zhong Qiu, Jia Wang, Xingang Wang
Votes: 29
22. Guningtou da zhan (1980)
Drama, War
Director: Tseng-Chai Chang | Stars: Jimmy Wang Yu, Don Wong, Kuo Wang, Hsiu-Shen Liang
Votes: 24
23. Qiu shou qi yi (1993)
Drama, War
Director: Kangyu Zhou | Stars: Yongtian Li, Falu Liu, Qian Wang, Yin Wang
Votes: 14
24. Si du Chishui (1983)
156 min | War
The Red Army and Nationalist forces battle over the Chishui River in 1935.
Directors: Jiwei Cai, Dexian Gu | Stars: Xuecheng Fu, Yue Gu, Ange Jin, Guoqiang Tang
Votes: 25
25. Chinese Wine (2016)
100 min | Drama
The relationship of two maotai liquor-producing families, between 1915, when the drink first won international fame, and the end of the Chinese civil war, after which it was named China's official national liquor.
Director: Jiangbo Song | Stars: Van Fan, Yi Huang, Hou Tianlai, Zhaoqi Shi
26. Tu po Wu jiang (1961)
89 min | Drama, War
A Red Army regiment battles to cross the Wu River in 1934.
Directors: Ang Li, Shutian Li | Stars: Deji Huo, Jiufang Li, Hongtong Lin, Bingzhang Liu
Votes: 9
28. Pobeda kitayskogo naroda (1950)
88 min | Documentary, History, War
This color documentary account of the Communist conquest of China begins in 1929 (all archive footage) when Mao Zedong and his small army held only a few cities in the northern part of ... See full summary »
Directors: Ivan Lukinsky, Leonid Varlamov | Stars: Leonid Khmara, Kai-Shek Chiang, Madame Chiang, Zedong Mao
Votes: 15
29. Liberation of Nanjing (1982)
150 min | Drama, History, War
Set in 1948-1949, PLA capture Nanjing after the breakdown of negotiation between Communist Party and Nationalist Party.
Directors: Po Li, Linyu Wei, Xian Yuan | Star: Qing Xu
Votes: 9
30. Ni feng qian li (1963)
99 min | Mystery, War
Director: Huang Fang | Stars: Yi Ma, Ziliang Zhang, Tiebao Ding, Xiaoguang Gang
34. Yunnan Qiyi (1940)
Biography, Drama, History
Directors: Sing-Fung But, Kung-Leung Yeung | Stars: Siu-Shan Lai, Yeung Ying-Ha, Siu-Hung Ho, Yuk-Yee Yung
35.
OverSimplified (2016– )
Episode:
The Cold War: Part 1
(2019)
TV-14 | 16 min | Documentary, Animation, Comedy
Oversimplified explains The Cold War, in two parts.
Director: Stuart Webster | Star: Stuart Webster
Votes: 37
36.
Atlas Pro (2018– )
Episode:
Is Tibet a Country?
(2018)
8 min | Documentary
To be a county a region needs to satisfy three criteria. It must comprise a clearly defined area of land. It must have a government. It must be a nation meaning a people with a common ... See full summary »
Star: Caelan Kelley
37.
Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode:
Mao's Secrets
TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
The roots of China's conflict with Taiwan go back to WWII. While the Allied and Axis powers battled for control of Europe, China's Chiang Kai-Shek and his US-backed State Police fought a ... See full summary »
Stars: Charlton Heston, Michael Schaller, Frederic Wakeman, William F. Dorrill
38.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
The Chinese Civil War
(2018)
9 min | Documentary, Animation
The Armchair Historian traces the reasons for the communist party to defeat the forces of Chiang Kai Shek following World War II.
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen
39.
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: 408
40.
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.
41.
History Matters (2016– )
Episode:
Why didn't Mao Conquer Taiwan? (Short Animated Documentary)
(2020)
4 min | Documentary, Animation, History
Laking a navy and with Taiwan having United States support, Moa had no hope of conquering Taiwan. Here tried anyway.
42.
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