此片重演1942年二次世界大戰期間，著名的太平洋戰爭中一場關鍵性戰役——史上聞名的「中途島戰役」，此戰發生於珍珠港事變後，並被認為是大戰中扭轉局勢的轉捩點！

在大規模的瓜達爾卡納爾島戰役中，美國陸軍第25步兵師27團2營的C連因設法要從日本軍手中奪回210號高地，全連從登陸開始到持續數月精疲力盡的廝殺與流血，從叢林中巡邏偵察到夜宿野地和受傷躺在醫院，一直到生存者最後的離去，皆被深刻且真實地在片中描繪出來。

中途島戰役失利直接宣佈了日軍在太平洋戰場上的失敗，負隅頑抗的日軍依然堅守日本最南端的小島—硫磺島。這個看似不起眼的小島，卻上演了二戰太平洋上最慘烈的戰爭。栗林忠道中將是日軍在硫磺島的指揮官，負責這道日軍最後的防線。栗林中將大力改革日軍內部的陋習和不足，並設計出一整套對付美軍、以拖延為主的作戰方案。雖然他和日軍的二萬名官兵都上下齊心，但面對佔盡空中優勢的四萬名美軍士兵，栗林知道這將是一場沒有歸路的戰爭。在最後的戰爭之前，栗林寫下了他最後的家書……

此片根據史實拍攝，重演1942年第二次世界大戰期間，太平洋戰爭的關鍵性戰役--中途島之戰。當時由於美國的船在珍珠港轟炸中飽受重創，急需給日本海軍致命一擊以扭轉局勢，因此在指揮官蓋斯（Charlton Heston 飾）的指導下，與日軍展開密碼間諜戰、聲東擊西戰、以及最後的海空聯合大戰...但在此同時，蓋斯卻也發現，他兒子的日裔女友竟是日本顛覆組織的成員！這場攸關勇氣、錯誤甚至機率的戰爭，充滿了一觸即發的緊張情勢。

A true-life epic that revolves around an exclusive bataillon of the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, "Carlson's Raiders," whose assignment is to take control of a South Pacific island once possessed by the United States but now under Japanese command.

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.

Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.

Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified island. This action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles on a time sensitive mission to find the source of the enemy rockets. As the mission progresses, the squad and leader overcome many challenges as they are transformed into an effective and efficient fighting unit.

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.

As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.

During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.

In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.

A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.

Panic arises among Allied POWs aboard a Japanese freighter when they learn that the ship is actually a decoy target for American submarines on night patrol. The prisoners unite and attack their Japanese captors just as an American sub surfaces and, not knowing the prisoners are aboard, prepares to torpedo the ship.

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.

An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.

Tim Burstall directs then-up-and-comers Mel Gibson and Sam Neill in this action-packed Cannes Film Festival selection about the grim realities of World War II, a gritty drama based on actual events. Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific, Capt. P.G. Kelly (Gibson) and his elite squad of Australian commandos must keep tabs on a defecting Japanese official who could hold the secret to peace.

Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, who he befriends. They happen to be two of the six marines captured in the famous photograph of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima, but Sorenson is killed soon after. Although he is hailed as a hero, Ira's life begins to spiral out of control after the war.