Duramente sconfitte a Kasserine, in Tunisia, nel loro primo scontro con l'"Africa Korps" di Rommel, le forze americane si rifanno allorché il comando della VII Armata viene assunto dal generale George S. Patton. Militare di carriera e più ancora di vocazione, fanatico, arrogante e volgare, ma anche abile e valoroso comandante, Patton, dopo aver conquistato la Sicilia, rivaleggiando con Montgomery, subisce un'eclissi temporanea per aver schiaffeggiato come vigliacco un soldato colto da una crisi nervosa. Sbarcati gli alleati in Normandia, viene affidato a Patton il comando della III Armata, con la quale, vinta la cruenta battaglia di Bastogne, e conquistate le Ardenne, si spinge fin nel centro della Germania.

Un soldato americano per errore spara su un compagno, ma il fatto viene insabbiato ed il militare riassegnato ad un lavoro d'ufficio. Successivamente verrà incaricato di svolgere un'indagine per l'assegnazione di una medaglia alla memoria postuma, ma le testimonianze perderanno di consistenza e si troverà a lottare con i propri fantasmi del passato...

Nell'aprile 1945 cinque studenti sedicenni del liceo di una cittadina tedesca sono messi a guardia di un ponte di nessuna importanza strategica e oppongono un'accanita resistenza ai carri armati USA. Tratto da un romanzo di Manfred Gregor, è _ con L'ultimo ponte (1954) di Käutner _ uno dei film tedeschi di guerra che negli anni '50 ebbero rinomanza internazionale.

Un avvocato militare deve investigare su un delitto avvenuto alla base di Fort Neal, si ritroverà invischiato in una spirale di violenza ed accanimento razziale.

Il giornalista Junger e il fotoreporter Hetherington hanno trascorso un anno in Afghanistan insieme al Secondo plotone, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, dell'Esercito degli Stati Uniti, documentandone fedelmente la vita quotidiana in uno sperduto avamposto nella valle di Korengal.

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.

Algeria, 1960. A section of French paratroopers are sent in search of a missing aircraft in the Algerian desert. The wreckage of the plane is quickly located, but there are no survivors, just a suitcase stamped “Top Secret”. Stormed by enemy soldiers, the troops find refuge in a strange abandoned citadel. Despite warnings from the place’s Guardian to leave at once, they wake up the Djinns, the evil spirits of the desert .

L'omicidio irrisolto della giovane soldatessa Darlene Krashoc ha perseguitato Joe Kenda negli anni successivi alla consegna della pistola e del distintivo.

Louis meets the Phelps family — the people at the heart of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church. The Phelps have rabid anti-homosexual beliefs, and often campaign at the funerals of American soldiers. They believe that every tragedy in the world is God's punishment for homosexuality.

On the morning of June 6, 1944, thousands of ships reached the French coast of Normandy as part of an Allied operation to take back France from the Germans. For the next 85 days, U.S., British, and Canadian soldiers engaged in conflicts of unimaginable violence, conquering and liberating the region's cities, but at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives. From the D-Day invasion to the final Nazi surrender in Argentan, this is the definitive story of the three-month Battle of Normandy as it's never been seen before.

A herd of war-torn and hungry rats tries to get an answer to the question of who is Lili Marleen from a mortally wounded young soldier stuck in a projectile funnel. Is it a reminder of first love or first relationship with a prostitute earning her daily bread? Lili Marleen is not just a distant heroine from a song. Every soldier boy has her own Lili, be it his first love from school or just an imagination. But always, no matter what happens, she is waiting for her soldier underneath the lantern by the barrack gate...

Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. They encounter Waldo, an American on a similar mission, and the meeting sparks memories of an old girlfriend from the past. With the mysterious American lady Lisa in their wake, Cyril and Waldo decide to try and track her down.

This is a story about the battle for a hospital building in Grozny (Chechnya) in January 1995 between Russian Army forces and Chechen rebels supported by Arabian mujahideen and international mercenaries. Although the story is fictional, most of the characters are based on real-life prototypes and events are the compilation of true events during the Grozny Siege in the First Chechen War.

In 1974, a soldier, having now returned home, is haunted by shadows from the past, but are they just in his mind?