Avril 1945. Les Alliés mènent leur ultime offensive en Europe. À bord d’un tank Sherman, le sergent Wardaddy et ses 4 hommes s’engagent dans une mission à très haut risque bien au-delà des lignes ennemies. Face à un adversaire dont le nombre et la puissance de feu les dépassent, Wardaddy et son équipage vont devoir tout tenter pour frapper l’Allemagne nazie en plein cœur…
Indiana Jones se lance cette fois-ci à la recherche du Saint Graal, accompagné de l'éminent et très maladroit Dr Henry Jones, son père. Malheureusement, ils ne sont pas les seuls lancés sur la trace du trésor, les nazis le convoitent également.
« À l'ouest rien de nouveau » raconte l'histoire poignante d'un jeune soldat allemand sur le front occidental pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. En première ligne, Paul et ses camarades voient l'euphorie initiale se muer en désespoir et en épouvante quand ils se retrouvent à défendre leurs vies au fond des tranchées. Réalisé par Edward Berger, le film s'inspire du bestseller éponyme d'Erich Maria Remarque.
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
En 1944, près de Nancy, un colonel allemand est capturé par le lieutenant américain Kelly. Découvrant que son prisonnier est en possession de deux lingots d'or, il lui fait subir un interrogatoire au terme duquel sa victime fait une incroyable révélation : dans une banque à quelques 40 kilomètres de la ligne de front, les Allemands disposent d'un trésor de 16 millions de dollars... Kelly n'a alors plus qu'une idée en tête : s'en emparer, lui et ses hommes, pour leur propre compte.
L'arrivée sur Terre de Klaatu, un extraterrestre d'apparence humaine, provoque de spectaculaires bouleversements. Tandis que les gouvernements et les scientifiques tentent désespérément de percer son mystère, une femme, le docteur Helen Benson, parvient à nouer un contact avec lui et à comprendre le sens de sa mission. Klaatu est là pour sauver la Terre... avec ou sans les humains.
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
La bataille sur Terre est terminée mais la guerre pour l'univers est à peine commencée. Après être retourné sur Cybertron, Starscream prend les commandes des Décepticons et décide de retourner sur la Terre en force. Les Autobots, croyant que la paix est possible, découvrent que le corps de Mégatron a été volé à l'armée américaine par Skorpinox. Ce dernier fait revivre Mégatron avec sa propre énergie. Mégatron, Starscream et ses renforts de Décepticons tenteront de se venger des Autobots et de leurs nouveaux alliés.
Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.
A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor. At first all seems in order. But then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses...
USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Red Army's newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, shortly after the battle, this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight soldiers of the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division, under the command of General Ivan Panfilov, that stopped the advance on Moscow of a column of fifty-four Nazi tanks of the 11th Panzer Division for several days. Though armed only with standard issue Mosin-Nagant infantry rifles and DP and PM-M1910 machine guns, all useless against tanks, and with wholly inadequate RPG-40 anti-tank grenades and PTRD-41 anti-tank rifles, they fight tirelessly and defiantly, with uncommon bravery and unwavering dedication, to protect Moscow and their Motherland.
In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
After relocating his family - and his prized restored Sherman tank - to a small Georgia town, Sargeant Major Zack Carey butts heads with the local sheriff. Zack doesn't agree with the ways of the local police, and when the sheriff goes after Zack's son, it's time for Zack to roll out the Sherman tank and wage a little war of his own.
From the director of “Made In America” and “The Money Pit” comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 years and almost as many billion dollars have gone into devising the BFV (Bradley Fighting Vehicle). There's only one problem. . . it doesn't work.
A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.
Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!
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.