Unbelievable,Unforgettable

When the word "battle," or any other war-affiliated term, pops up in a movie title, you're usually in for an action-packed, loud, at times cruel, but ever-grand spectacle: Dunkirk, Pearl Harbor, Hacksaw Ridge, Enemy at the Gates. Yet there's more to it than meets the eye. Three prestigious directors-Chen Kaige, Hark Tsui and Dante Lam-are behind the 176-minute-long war epic The Battle at Lake Changjin, shot with the help of an unprecedented 70,000 extras and China's largest-ever production budget of $200 million, that follows the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) who joined the battle at Lake Changjin, or Chosin Reservoir, in the northeast of the Korean Peninsula during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53).