Documentary about China's film industry and the monumental changes in the past 40 years from beginning with propaganda films to the "5th generation" filmmakers and beyond, who embraced art and commercial films to make China the second largest box office market in the world after Hollywood.

Sixteen-year-old An-ran gets into repeated trouble because she refuses blind obedience to authority, openly challenging and correcting a teacher who makes a mistake in class. She is different.

A story about four orphans after the Tangshan earthquake.

A bunch of girls join the Chinese military force in order to improve their martial arts skills and to protect the Chinese population again arms dealers and drug barons.

Mengyu wants to go straight after inheriting his father's crime empire but evil police Captain Zhang pressures him to continue the criminal activities.

In the desolate village with dilapidated houses, dead trees, and gloomy winds, a revenge kidnapping unfolds. All this is actually a bloodshed caused by an astonishing scam. Wang Yantao, whose family is destroyed, is bent on killing the enemy with his own hands. In the house an interrogation goes on, in the unfinished building hides a huge sum of stolen money, and former accomplices turn against each other. When Wang raises his butcher's knife, who will get out unscathed in the dark? The media's dark secrets will be unveiled in horror.

The story takes place in the Yangtze River valley of China in the first half of the 20th century. The torrents and dangerous deep mountains and valleys and rivers have made countless people daunted.