During a time of war, a man joins the Communist party and starts on a road to revolution.
In the year 1946 when the Nationalists and the Communists were engaging each other's forces in Dongbei, bandits have become a serious problem and caused much suffering among ordinary citizens. Yang Fenghuo is an anti-Japanese occupation hero who has retired from service. He and Gong Wantang are blood brothers and rivals in love, but Gong Wantang is the leader of the bandits. Song Yi is a military man on a mission to bring down the bandits which leaves Yang Fenghuo with a difficult dilemma as he has to choose between patriotism and loyalty to an old friend.
The series examines a number of issues related to the Arab society, especially the Egyptian one, the most important of which is the problem of terrorism and how this issue is handled.
Eleven years after falling out, four friends, war veterans of a Special Forces unit, reunite for one final mission: to find Yaeli, a former lover of one of them and sister of another. Their journey will take them deep into the Colombian jungle but, as to succeed, first they must confront the trauma that tore them apart.
Lyse Doucet tells the story of the Syrian war through extraordinary testimony from those who have lived through it on the ground as well as politicians who tried to shape events.
End of 1946. The Kuomintang army encircled a group of the People's Liberation Army in the southern part of Henan. In order to delay the enemy's attack and ensure the safe transfer of the people, our love workers decided to use false information to confuse the enemy. Deng Yuanda successfully penetrated into the enemy's interior. Fighting wits and courage with the secret agents headed by the director of the intelligence department, Fei Siqing, and successfully completed one task after another. Through continuous combat experience, Deng Yuanda has matured and eventually grown into an outstanding intelligence worker. The initial difficulty in communication has gradually changed to mutual understanding, trust, acquaintance, and love. Just at the last moment when they completed their mission and were preparing to evacuate, Ye Shuting heroically sacrificed. After completing the mission, Deng Yuanda continued to move toward a new battlefield with their common ideals.
Four kings from the House of Stuart sat on the English throne from 1603 to 1688. It was a time of great religious struggle and political instability. The Gunpowder Plot nearly wiped out King James I. The Thirty Years War broke out on the continent. A civil war erupted which led to the public beheading of King Charles I and the birth of a commonwealth headed by Oliver Cromwell. London was ravaged by the plague and the Great Fire of London. Throughout this series we look at the reign of the Stuarts through the powerful Wynn family at Gwydir Castle in North Wales, one of the best time capsules from that era. The story of the Wynn family reflects the turbulent history of this Stuart era. They had close connections with this new royal house and their status would rise and fall with the successes and failures of Stuart rule.
During the reign of King Ekkathat in the Ayutthaya Kingdom, Mang Mao was the daughter of Ming, a rich man who was the owner of a paper factory. Mang Mao was also famous in her own right for being mischievous considering she escaped arranged dates many times. One time, she ran from an arranged date again and coincidentally met Sri Khan Thin. He didn't like her mischievousness. Mang Mao hated the way Sri Khan Thin tried to admonish her, so she often created chaos around him without knowing he was actually Khan Thong, the son of Suea Khun Thong who was a notorious dead bandit. Khan Thong disguised himself as a eunuch in the Royal Palace in order to investigate his parents' death.
During King Ekkathat’s reign, the mischievous Mang Mao repeatedly escapes arranged dates, only to clash with Sri Khan Thin—unaware he is actually Khan Thong, a young man in disguise investigating his parents’ mysterious deaths—leading to chaos, hidden identities, and unexpected encounters.
November 1947. The United Nations votes the partition plan for Palestine. For some, it is a dream becoming reality; for others, it is the beginning of a catastrophe. Seventy years after this historic vote, the land of Palestine remains an open wound, a battleground for two peoples torn apart by their shared history, a source of inextricable tension in the region and even beyond the borders of the Middle East.
Caught in a 150-year-long war, interstellar nations reach the pinnacle of strategic combat at the hands of two genius leaders. Reinhard of the Galactic Empire, and Yang of the Free Planets Alliance lead the charge from opposing fronts. Fighting is their destiny, but in this vast universe torn by political intrigue, their greatest enemy may not be each other.
A Total War is all encompassing, a war without boundary or limitation. It is a war of material and morale. A war that mobilizes, destroys and displaces civilian populations. The Second World War was a war in which massive armies advanced, confronting whole populations with impossible choices. The manufacture of weapons transformed industry and the workforce; area bombing campaigns reduced cities to rubble; sieges doomed populations to starvation; racial policies sponsored campaigns of genocide. Told through archive footage and expert interviews, we learn how WWII shattered the boundaries between home-front and battlefield.