During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
The story of a sergeant and the inner core members of his unit as they try to serve in and survive World War II.
An I.R.A. explosives expert on the run in Mexico meets an amoral Mexican bandit; together they are drawn into the Mexican revolution.
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.
During the Second World War a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.
Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. However, mismanagement and poor planning result in its failure.
A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.
A sheltered young high society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.
A small feud between two Napoleonic officers evolves into a decades-long series of duels.
A German commander places a squad in extreme danger after its Sergeant refuses to lie for him.
Nun Sara is on the run in Mexico and is saved from cowboys by Hogan, who is preparing for a future mission to capture a French fort. The pair become good friends, but Sara never does tell him the true reason behind her being outlawed.
A World War I soldier, rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack, finds a unique way of communicating with his doctors.
A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.
During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.