空有雄心壮志的魏文帝曹丕（李晨 饰），以四十岁的年纪遽然离世。其子曹叡（刘欢 饰）即位，却因母亲甄宓的缘故而对父皇以及郭太后心存怨恨。朝廷之上，作为托孤重臣的曹真、曹休极力排挤奉诏回都的司马懿（吴秀波 饰），意图壮大宗族的势力。魏国之外，孙权阳奉阴违，虎视 江东。蜀汉则在丞相诸葛亮（王洛勇 饰）的主持下有条不紊推进着北伐大业。在这一过程中，惯于隐忍的司马懿蓄势发力，逐渐在庙堂之争中占据主动，两个儿子司马师（肖顺尧 饰）和司马昭（檀健次 饰）更成为他完全信赖的左膀右臂。他耗走了魏明帝，耗走了诸葛亮，渴望从别人手中的刀变成执刀之人，却似乎始终没能逃脱命运的追赶。
白发苍苍的古稀之年，司马懿是否意识到自己早离当年的初衷相去甚远……

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.

《新大陆游记》是中国近代著名的政治活动家、启蒙思想家梁启超1903年赴美洲游历考察美国政治社会情况的记录，对域外城市社会和城市文明形成了较为全面、深刻的认识。
梁启超应美洲维新会之邀到新大陆游历时，正值美国城市化进程突飞猛进、社会面貌日新月异的大转折时期。他在众多的城市之间穿梭旅行，对五光十色、绚烂多姿的城市景观和城市文明感触反映了当时中西文化碰撞下的士人心态，游记中所做的观感记录对今天的读者来说具有很高的价值。

After the Japanese kidnap two Korean teenagers and take them to a comfort station to join other girls who are serving as sex slaves, only one of them survives. Decades later, the elderly woman tries to reunite with her friend's spirit.

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.