Tang Lin, a young journalist accompanies Zhang Gui, a war veteran, on a journey to return a fallen comrade’s belongings to his family, uncovering decades-old promises and gaining a profound understanding of the sacrifices behind the peace and happiness of today.
The decades during the Cold War were one thing above all: a race between scientists. Researchers, engineers and experts from the USA and the Soviet Union not only drove the space program, but also experimented in the fields of atomic energy, weapons technology and meteorology. The documentary highlights the technological advances from 1947-1991 in four episodes.
At the onset of the Anti-Japanese War, veteran Communist Wang Laogan operates a secret resistance from Shuiquan Tavern in occupied Shandong. As his team expands—bringing together former bandits, wealthy elites, and other awakened citizens—they carry out daring missions, culminating in a bold tunnel ambush that delivers a decisive blow to the Japanese forces.
As France fell to the German armies in May 1940, 400,000 Allied troops were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk. Their annihilation seemed certain—a disaster that could have led to Britain’s surrender. But then, in a last-minute rescue, Royal Navy ships and a flotilla of tiny civilian boats evacuated hundreds of thousands of soldiers to safety across the Channel—the legendary “miracle of Dunkirk.”
On 23 August 1939, the world was shocked to discover that Hitler and Stalin, the most intractable of their enemies at the time, had signed a pact that allowed them to divide Poland between them and gave the Nazi leader complete freedom to concentrate his forces in the West, against France and the United Kingdom. Through this agreement, Europe was to be thrown into war. For a long time, the relationship between Hitler and Stalin was ignored: their mutual fascination, their moves to get closer, the marks of confidence they exchanged and all the benefits they derived from the German-Soviet pact, before resuming their war to the death in June 41 with the "Barbarossa" operation.
The Georgian Kings belong to one of the most dysfunctional royal dynasties in British history. Loved and loathed by the public in equal measure, their scandals, back-stabbings, feuds and betrayals shaped an entire era of British history. This is a true-life Succession for the 18th Century.
In a powerful household marked by scandal and hidden tensions, one family becomes entangled in the local resistance during the anti-Japanese war—until a child’s tragic discovery exposes a shocking spy conspiracy.