Suhua, a young woman graduate of the Shanghai Nursing School, volunteers to go to the "border areas" in the Chinese Northeastern region. As a consequence, she soon breaks off with her boyfriend in Shanghai. ...

A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle. ...

The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict. ...

A colonel defends three of his soldiers in a court-martial after they abandon a suicidal attack. ...

A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague. ...

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it. ...