影片记录了台湾后山─花莲县美仑国中的足球小将们，在国中最后一个夏天里面对理想全力冲刺的感人故事。他们情同手足，相互扶持。这群朝气蓬勃的阳光大男孩们，接受着严格的训练，为了梦想而奋力拼搏着。在国中生涯最后一个夏天里，他们共同迎接这场最终的战役。由台湾纪录片导演杨力州与爱徒张荣吉共同执导的青春热血纪录片《奇迹的夏天》，荣获2006年第43届台湾电影金马奖最佳纪录片。影片缘起2006年世界杯开赛时，运动品牌NIKE在世界各地拍摄以足球青年为主题的纪录片。杨力州应邀拍摄有关美仑国中足球队的五分钟短片。这群用热情燃烧生命的少年们，激起了杨力州创作此部长篇纪录片的想法。

根据梁羽生同名小说改编嘉庆年间，宦官当道，朝政不举，民不聊生，“六合帮”帮主史白都勾结官府欺压百姓，江湖义士、绿林好汉纷纷揭竿而起，上山聚义。史白都为巴结朝廷的刘大太监，准备将镇帮之宝的一块玄铁当做寿礼送给刘大太监，没想到“家贼难防”，让掌管文书的李敦偷去准备投奔义军。史白都的手下追杀李敦到三神庙，撞上行侠仗义的江湖义士金逐流。金逐流路见不平，除掉“六合帮”的两名香主，放李敦投奔义军，从此得罪“六合帮”。史白都差人送往京城的玄铁在快活林让金逐流劫走，史白都闻讯后传下帮令全力追杀“臭要饭的”金逐流。金逐流在快活林邂逅史白都的妹妹史红英，与史红英有救命之恩，得知史红英与哥哥史白都有别，与投奔义军的李敦私定终身。金逐流决意会会史白都。在史白都设宴款待朝廷命官文大人的宴席上，金逐流与失败都斗酒过招，幸得江湖义士历南星襄助，两人才得以成功脱险。历南星与金逐流结拜金兰，金逐流带着历南星的信物进京找戴军铸剑，历南星因爱慕史红英只身拜访史白都。进京途中，金逐流遭史白都的结拜兄弟“海沙帮”沙帮主暗算。金逐流身陷牢笼命在旦夕，史红英暗中搭救，算是“连本带利”一并还清。得知李敦已经投奔义军，史红英深感欣慰。历南星只身拜访史白都，得知史红英已经心中有人，当即以朋友相待，进京寻找金逐流。刘大太监六十寿辰在即，江湖义士纷纷进京，准备大闹寿堂，替朝廷除掉宦官。寿堂之上，女扮男装的史红英让文大人的公子文盛忠识出，进京义士当即现身大闹寿堂，联手铲除文大人、史白都、刘大太监，结义成军共举大事。

描写的是从宇宙历七九五年、帝国历四八六年十月的第三次迪亚马特会战到宇宙历七九六年、帝国历四八七年二月的亚斯提会战之间的情节。帝国军的年轻上将莱因哈特和同盟军的不败英雄杨威利在片中初次显示了他们的实力。它的配乐采用了交响乐来衬托其气势，舰队对战时声势甚为浩大。片中还穿插了杨、拉普和洁西卡的三角关系。除此以外，基本上是正传的1、2集的重复与补充。

"Carol Jeffries (known as 'Jeff') is a naive American woman staying in the Phillipines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attempts on her life, then convinces her cell-mates to try to escape with her through the jungle, in spite of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them. ”“ Legend has it that Sam Arkoff, head of American International Pictures saw a statuesque Grier at his company switchboard and cast her on the spot for her breakthrough hit Coffy. That, as they say, is bull shee-it. The former beauty queen made her film debut in 1970 as an extra in Russ Meyer's big breast bonanza Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, and appeared in a number of B-pics shot in the Philippines the following year for AiP's rival company, Roger Corman's New World Pictures. Alongside her role as the tough-as-nails prostitute in Big Doll House were supports in the horror flick The Twilight People and as a topless hooker (again!) in Cool Breeze, then back behind bars for Women In Cages.In Women In Cages, Grier plays the sadistic warden for once, a pot-smoking lesbian with a fully-equipped torture chamber (including a guillotine!). The 'New Fish' (a recent inmate, for you prison film novices), a ditzy blonde ex-stripper called Alabama, has taken the heroin possession rap for her pimp boyfriend. She knows too much, so the pimp blackmails her cellmates to execute her. A competent and well-shot entry in the tropical prison genre from Filipino director Gerry De Leon, it places the embittered ex-addict and prostitute Grier in the position of slave owner, watching her white charges toiling away in the plantation with obvious ironic glee."