The start of the Ong-Bak martial arts film series in 2003 is how Tony Jaa broke out as a martial arts actor, and the third movie in the series is available to watch for free on Tubi.

Before the genre got entirely grayscale and brooding, this movie showed us how wild martial arts cinema could really get. And how good it felt when it didn’t take itself too seriously.

Martial arts movies have been popular in the West to some extent or another since the 1960s, but it was during the 1990s that the genre truly became mainstream. This period saw the rise of iconic ...