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In 1905, a drifter on a dangerous mission to rescue his kidnapped sister tangles with a sinister religious cult on an isolated island.

A man is sent to the flying city of Columbia to find a missing girl. However, upon arrival he discovers that the city, its people, and his objective are all not what they seem.

During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.

During the Boxer Rebellion in China during the early 20th century, in which a Chinese secret society attacked all westerners and anyone who associated with them, Dr. Fu Manchu's wife and child are killed by foreigners. Enraged, he vows to take his revenge on the British army officers he holds responsible for the killings.

In China at the turn of the 20th century there was a rebel group called the Society of the Harmonious Fist, otherwise known as Boxers. They attacked westerners and any Chinese who associated with Westerners. In this short, a Chinese government executioner prepares to behead a captured Boxer rebel.

Philip Trent is tired of playing film detective Shelby James, thinking that the stories are tripe, and plans a vacation to get away from Hollywood. But on the ship he meets a mysterious young woman, then finds a body--then discovers that the whole affair was staged by Peter Dean, author of the Shelby James novels. But then Mr. Van Mier is found murdered in the same way and the Dragon diamond is missing. No matter what Philip tries to do, he finds himself involved with the crime and meddles his way through it looking for the killer and the diamond--with help from Peter Dean.

The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers. They attack with swords, guns, and paddles. He's over-matched. What will become of the mission, its defenders, and its occupants?

Reenactment of an event from the Chinese Boxer Rebellion.

A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.

A Nihilist Russian, Olga Petcoff goes after her younger sister killer, only to find herself being the romantic interest of several military men willing to wage war to win her heart.

Reenactment of a scene from the Boxer Rebellion.

A man destroys his father's foundry and blames his brother, who later helps a sailor save his father from the Boxer rebellion.

The boxers seize a missionary and hang him by the feet over a fire, afterwards setting fire to the mission station. A detachment of the allies comes on the scene and charge them with fixed bayonets, putting them to flight and killing a good many. Across a stream and cross over on their way to the town, escorting some boxer prisoners.

Lindsey finds himself drawn to Darla as her mental state deteriorates.

After being bested in a fight by an ordinary vampire, Buffy asks Spike to explain how he killed two Slayers many years earlier.

A young man whom Grief and Mauriri rescue from a ship explosion turns out to have been an unwitting accomplice in an unscrupulous arms shipment.

Covers an incident known as "The Boxer Rebellion" in China from 1899-1901, when a revolutionary society known as The Boxers revolted against what they saw as foreign occupation and exploitation of China, and--with the tacit help of the Chinese government--attacked foreign installations and businesses and murdered foreigners and any Chinese they saw as helping them. They laid siege to the foreign legation in Peking, which held out for 55 days before a combined force of European, American and Japanese troops arrived to rescue them. . Tens of thousands of people--mostly Chinese--were killed before the uprising was finally put down.

When a veteran soldier is tortured by vengeful spirits, Max and Oskar's search for an explanation takes them through Vienna's most lavish homes and into its darkest opium dens.

Beiling and Shanghai are the largest cities in China and two of the largest in the world. But other than being a part of China they are two very different cities.

Any list of the best, or in this case the worst, is going to have a health dose of opinion. But Mr. Beat provides substantial evidence to back up his list of the ten worst American presidents giving his list a good measure of objectivity.

With Murdoch away, Constable Crabtree finds himself investigating the apparent death by poisoning of a visiting Chinese official who was in Toronto seeking men who had participated in the Boxer Rebellion. Their immediate suspect is Wu Chang but as Crabtree gets to know the young man, he is increasingly convinced of his innocence. It turns out it's not Boxers they're after. Murdoch and Julia Ogden meanwhile are trying to find their nemesis, James Gillies. Things take a strange twist when the Cobourg police inform them they may have found Gillies' remains. Ballistics settles the issue but one question remains: who wrote the threatening letters. Murdoch settles that mystery as well.