Streaming Sinclair Videos: Feature & Short Films

Link to Video (110 minutes. Thai with English subtitles)
"Salak and Tuland are two mechanics who are tired of eking out a living and decide to rob the house of one of the richest men in town... What follows is a series of double-crosses, destiny intervening and blackmail."

Link to Video (94 minutes. Tagalog with English subtitles)
"Stories of the relationship between two boys in the Philippines."

Link to Video (98 minutes)
"Escaping Vietnam Tony and Tien, two Amerasian brothers abandoned by their American father, arrive in California to search for a better life. As Tien searches for his father, Tony, embittered by the "American dream," takes refuge in a local gang of Amerasian kids and enters an underground world of drugs and crime in Little Saigon. Bonded by a similar past, this misfit gang ignites a new passion in Tony's life."

Link to Video (124 minutes)
"Gabrielle Chanel, abandoned and raised in a Catholic orphanage, was a rebellious child who thirsted for more than her lot in life. The wealthy pursued her beauty and she pursued their wealth. Working from Paris, she revolutionized women's styles, created a famous perfume, and shocked the world. Only love eluded her."

Link to Video (90 minutes. Dubbed in English)
"Depicts World War II as seen through the eyes of three Japanese soldiers whose destinies are changed forever. The entire Pacific Theater is encompassed in this sprawling epic saga."

Link to Video (86 minutes)
"For black GI, Peter Moss (James Edwards), the war never ends. Paralyzed from the waist down, he wages a battle against horrifying memories of the treacherous undergrowth of South Pacific jungle of Japanese snipers, and the virulent racism of his soldier comrades."

Link to Video (107 minutes. Chinese with English subtitles)
"Depicts the Chinese people's heroic resistance to British imperialism in the Opium War of 1840."

Link to Video (96 minutes. Tagalog with English subtitles)
"As young Miguel travels to the United States from the Philippines, his proud family says good bye, looking forward to the day when he will return. Seven years later Miguel comes home as a woman, Michelle, after a sex-change operation in the United States. Michelle's existence challenges her family and townspeople to re-examine their own values on morality, gender, family, religion, and coming out."

Link to Video (63 minutes. Cambodian with English subtitles)
"The film is set against a background of ancient temples, rice fields and country villages, and scenes of city life in present-day Cambodia. It is a tale of well-educated young doctor who returns to a rural province to work in a hospital for land-mine victims; he then is caught up in a web of love, jealousy, betrayal and suicide."

Link to Video (106 minutes)
"A battle of wits and weapons ensues and unlikely alliances are forged when a crashed planeload of U.S. Marines and a Japanese army platoon are all stranded on a tiny South Pacific island during World War II."

Link to Video (80 minutes. Japanese with English subtitles)
"Chiko is a young Japanese girl growing up in Japanese occupied Korea during WWII. Her family is rocked by tragedy and poverty. When Japan has lost the war, Chiko and her family must embark upon an epic journey across a war-ravaged land in a desperate quest for the perceived freedom of the U.S. Occupied Zone. Rail of the Star is an unforgettable tale of courage, tragedy and the triumph of the human spirit."

Link to Video (83 minutes)
"Dennis Carson, overseer of a rubber plantation in Indochina, gives refuge to a prostitute on the run from Saigon authorities. Romance is sparked but becomes heated when an engineer's wife steps into the picture."

Link to Video (81 minutes. Thai and Japanese with English subtitles)
"During the Japanese occupation of Thailand in World War II, Kobori, a Japanese navy captain, is stationed at a shipbuilding yard in Thonburi, where he meets and falls in love with Ungsumalin."

Link to Video (117 minutes. Chinese with English subtitles)
"Two young returnees from the countryside fall in love in Shanghai, but their love is tested by traditional views of women and morality."

Link to Video (105 minutes. Dutch and Indonesian with English subtitles)
"Deals with the prolonged, bloody war between the Netherlands and the Sultanate of Aceh, Indonesia, at the end of the nineteenth century, with emphasis on the role of the guerrilla fighter Tjoet Nja Dhien."

Link to Video (59 minutes. English and Apache with English subtitles)
"A young Apache man, growing up in the White Mountains of Arizona, learns from Apache stories and makes decisions about his life."

Link to Video (27 minutes)
"Set in a Japanese relocation camp during WWII, this fact-based story chronicles the journey of an American family torn apart by forced incarceration, a father's decision that challenges his son to find strength, and ultimately his son's triumph through courage, sacrifice and the All-American game of baseball."

Link to Video (8 minutes)
"A Korean immigrant works at his grocery store behind a bulletproof counter and reflects on the events that brought him to America."

Link to Video (44 minutes. Cambodian with English subtitles)
"A story of love and civil war in contemporary Cambodia. After a battalion of rebel soldiers receives food from a peasant brother and sister, its commander falls in love with the young peasant woman, but their happiness is short-lived."

Link to Video (44 minutes. Cambodian with English subtitles)
"In an allegory set in contemporary Cambodia, a young prince is told by his guru that he alone can save his country from the tragedies of the past twenty years. When the prince meets a beautiful young woman, the guru warns them both that marriage is impossible, but they defy him."

Link to Video (10 minutes)
"Presents various scenes of Honolulu including Japanese women in the downtown area, a Japanese fruit store, lei making, a Japanese vegetable man, the Judiciary Building with statue of King Kamehameha, the first portable house shipped from New England, the Mission House Memorial, the Normal School where teachers are trained, the red school house, public library, Kawaiahao Church, the home of Queen Liliuokalani, Honolulu homes, Waikiki Beach with Diamond Head, Kapaiolani Park, banyan tree, and ends with animation showing high cost of living causing social unrest."