Millennials, at 2.3 billion people, are the largest generation in the world and believe in their own power to disrupt, change, alter, and direct just about everything. The Revolution Generation shows why, given present circumstances, this generation may be arriving on the world stage just in the nick of time.

Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of operative instruments; his fascination with Socialism; a journey into medical Russia; and the founding of a mobile plasma-transfusion unit in war-torn Spain. Bethune twice married and twice divorced his wife Frances (Dame Helen Mirren), who chooses abortion over child-rearing in her unstable marriage. By 1939, Bethune had been dismissed from his Montreal Hospital for taking unconventional risks, and from his volunteer position in Spain for his chronic problems of drinking and womanizing. As his friend states: "China was all that was left." Even there, Bethune confidently ignores the advice of Chinese officials until heavy casualties make him realize his mistake and lead him to a spectacular apology.

为了改变自己平淡无彩的人生，张贤洙（朴龙河饰）苦读研究股票的相关书籍，与原是黑社会暴力组织出身的黄钟久（朴熙顺饰）展开价值600亿韩元的股票争夺战！张贤洙生来就有如果做了后悔的事就会失眠的倔强性格，起初涉及证券业时因为缺乏相关的经验和知识，成为业内人人避忌的信用不良者。为了扭转“被遗弃的命运”，他用自学的方式成为实力和魄力兼备的股票阻击手，一时间风光无比。一次，因追击到一个股票而赚到数千万元的贤洙短暂的高兴过后，得知他的战利品是黄钟久正在试图操控中的作战股。后者成功地洗底，成为偷税的暴发户，与积蓄了机密资本的政治家等上流层联合密谋成为整个大韩经济的主宰者。贤洙与女资产管理师柳书廷（金敏贞饰）成为合作者，与黄钟久等人运用作战当中的最高必杀技“环境技术”中展开生死攸关的对决。

侵华战争时期，日本人将掠得的北京猿人头骨偷运回国，途中沉没，成为一桩疑案。当年日本人将头骨化石偷运回国，隐藏几十年后，在和平环境下重新进行研究。他们将头骨化石中的DNA残片提取出来，进行培育，然后送入太空，据说这样便可以凭借太空中的粒子幅射，使其蕴育成熟。不料，载着北京猿人胚胎的飞船失事，坠入海岛，而北京猿人却成功地诞生了。而王祖贤扮演的中国美丽女间谍的使命就是将北京猿人偷运回国，从此便和日本科学家展开了明争暗斗。最后，双方不分输赢，而是达成了共识：北京猿人不是任何一国的财富，他们属于大自然。于是，猿人一家三口和一只同样由基因技术复制出来的猛玛象被放归了自然。