Classics at the MIX: 'Empire of the Sun'

The Classics at the MIX series continues with an early and often overlooked Steven Spielberg masterpiece, “Empire of the Sun.” A 12-year-old Christian Bale stars in his big Hollywood debut as Jamie "Jim" Graham, a young British boy who gets separated from his wealthy family in Shanghai during WWII and comes of age in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. This international epic is an underrated gem that touches on themes that recur throughout Spielberg’s filmography and offers an emotionally stirring child’s-eye view of war.