This timely and deeply resonant film sheds light on a nearly forgotten chapter of history in which around 3,000 Indian Chinese were unjustly imprisoned after the 1962 Sino-India war. As immigration policies and narratives around national identity continue to evolve, both in the U.S. and globally, the film offers powerful insights into how the past still echoes today. What happened in the past can happen again, and often does.
This timely and deeply resonant film sheds light on a nearly forgotten chapter of history in which around 3,000 Indian Chinese were unjustly imprisoned after the 1962 Sino-India war. As immigration policies and narratives around national identity continue to evolve, both in the U.S. and globally, the film offers powerful insights into how the past still echoes today. What happened in the past can happen again, and often does.
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan in India, who was blinded by her stepmother, Wang must confront the trauma of living through the violent uprising in his youth, the Cultural Revolution.
South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.