chinese civil war
  • Barbara Stanwyck picture
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    Barbara Stanwyck

    Barbara Stanwyck was a dazzling study in contrasts. At times sultry and sweet; vulnerable and tough;...

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    Ang Lee

    Though he drew many of his influences from Asian cinema, director Ang Lee transcended his Taiwanese...

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    Hou Hsiao-Hsien

    Director Hou Hsiao Hsien, in a 1988 New York Film Festival World Critics Poll, was voted one of...

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    The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

    A U.S. missionary (Barbara Stanwyck) is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord (Nils Asther) holding...

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    Edward Yang

    Though largely unknown in the West, Edward Yang emerged, over the course of two decades, as one of...

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    Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1955)

    A Eurasian doctor (Jennifer Jones) falls in love with a married U.S. war correspondent (William...

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    Assembly

    A soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War.

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    Jian guo da ye

    Begins in 1945 and chronicles the Chinese Civil War, which eventually led to the Kuomintang's...