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During the Japanese invasion of China, a wealthy martial artist is forced to leave his home when his city is occupied. With little means of providing for themselves, Ip Man and the remaining members of the city must find a way to survive.

In the Joseon Dynasty, two friends who grew up together, one the master and one the servant, reunite post-war as enemies on opposing sides.

During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.

Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.

Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.

Amidst the chaos of World War II, eager and idealistic Byomkesh Bakshy is determined to uncover a murder mystery that soon turns into a battle against time to save Calcutta from Japanese invasion.

A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Thinking back, she recalls the Australian man who made a great sacrifice to aid her and her fellow prisoners of war.

In 1930s Korea, during the Japanese colonial era, a man who is a Korean police officer assigned to aid the Japanese in the annihilation of the local rebellion, secretly dons the 'Bridal Mask' and fights the unjust regime.

When the U.S. forces withdraw from Java, ahead of the Japanese invasion, U.S. Navy doctor Corydon M. Wassell coordinates the remaining wounded servicemen and leads them to safety towards the last Allied evacuation points.

During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier, an Army nurse, a priest and a group of local children, try to make their getaway aboard a rattletrap, creaky bus.

During the Ming dynasty, a courageous swordsman gathers five other fighters and rallies the local fishermen to fight off a band of Japanese invaders.

After the U.S. defeat in the Philippines, Madison leads a rag-tag group of U.S. soldiers against the Japanese occupiers. In this WW II drama, the Japanese set an island trap for the American troops.

Chinese girl risks her life on espionage mission against Japanese in World War 2.

Two married anthropologists go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research.

During Second Sino-Japanese War, China suffered from cholera outbreak because Japanese uses it as an biological weapon. Four Chinese agents captures a Japanese scientist and his bodyguard and interrogate them by Chinese opera in order to get the vaccine formula.

"1895" tells the story of the resistance against the Japanese invasion in 1895 (the biggest war in Taiwan's history). After the 1894 Sin-Japanese war, the Qing government ceded Taiwan to Japan. After hearing the news, some groups of Taiwan people organized their own resistance to establish the Taiwan Republic. After the Japanese military on the northeast coast of Taiwan most officials fled to China and Taipei was taken with minimal effort. Three young Taiwan Hakka youths, Tang-hsing We, Hsiang Hsu, Shao-tsu Chiang, organized a guerrilla front to fight the Japanese.

Set in rural Mindanao, as the Japanese invasion intensifies, five men from the Teduray tribe of Cotabato join the United States Armed Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) during World War II.

Frustrated, ambitious stage mother Toyang (Lolita Rodriguez) forces her son Joey (Walter Navarro) into a showbiz career and ultimately ends up in a tragedy. 1970s teenage heartthrob, handsome, clean-cut, boy-next-door type Walter Navarro starred as the son, Joey Galvez, who at the peak of his stardom was gunned down by his erstwhile girlfriend Nina (Lotis Key) in a fit of jealousy and anger. Director Lino Brocka directs "Stardoom" for Lea Productions, his "indictment of the corruption of values in the local film industry."

A ragtag band of civilians and military personnel evade the Japanese in the Philippines, utilising the so-called USS Frankenstein.

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.

This revealing film gives a new historical perspective that suggests the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 was the first battle of World War II.

In 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded the Republic of China and a bloodbath followed. 27 brave foreign men and women stayed in a heroic effort to help the people and their incredible efforts helped save 250,000 lives.

Newsreel in six segments show the building and completion of the Ledo Road to its junction with the Burma Road in Burma; a procession of Chinese civilian refugees fleeing invading Japanese forces; a speech by future presidential candidate Thomas Dewey on American wartime productivity; the negotiated evacuation of French civilians from Nazi-occupied St. Nazaire, France; the training and debriefing of K-9 Corps dogs; and a brief summary of the championship basketball game between NYU and Notre Dame.

Despite the crushing attacks on Singapore, the British army are instructed to continue fighting at all costs. Walter, still reeling from recent news, struggles to face the harsh truth and his grip on reality weakens. Matthew hears devastating news about Vera and races to save her from danger, but not without a struggle. As the British surrender to the Japanese, unprepared for the challenge to their way out of Singapore, tragedy strikes for all involved.

Japan's do-or-die struggle to create and control an airfield in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is chronicled. A succinct historical summary of the American vs Japanese Battle of Guadalcanal.