Films featuring Jeet Kune Do

It shows Jeet Kune Do emerging as a break from the fixed forms of Wing Chun. The Oakland fight said to have freed Lee from the ban on teaching non-Chinese students is recounted differently by different witnesses — the film picks one version.

The original scenes with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Filipino escrimador Dan Inosanto are all Lee actually shot. The tower's layered floors were meant to stage a clash of different styles — precisely what Jeet Kune Do is about.

The first film to bring Chinese martial arts to a Western audience on this scale. Bruce Lee shows no single style but his Jeet Kune Do principle: take what works from every system. Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung appear in small roles.

The closing duel with Chuck Norris in the Colosseum remains a textbook illustration of static versus adaptive fighting. Norris really works from karate, Lee from Jeet Kune Do principles.

The nunchaku scene from this film made the weapon famous worldwide — Western audiences had not seen it before. The Jingwu (Chin Woo) school genuinely existed, but the plot is fiction.