As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
V obdobju vietnamske vojne spremljamo izkušnje J.T. Davisa »Jokerja« od rekruta do marinca, novinarja v Vietnamu. Narednik Hartman s svojim krutim pristopom načrtno uničuje samozavest in psiho mladih rekrutov, ter jih tako preoblikuje v marince, kakršne ameriška vojska potrebuje. V drugem delu zgodbe spremljamo Jokerja, ki se vključi v bitko, čeprav je njegova naloga novinarskega značaja.
Sijajna igralska zasedba, ki vključuje Georgea Clooneyja, Seana Penna, Nicka Nolteja in Woodyja Harrelsona, vas bo močno prevzela kot enota ameriške pehote, ki se bori za nadzor na Guadalcanalu, v nadvse realističnem filmu o moralnem kaosu v Pacifiku med drugo svetovno vojno. Film, ki je bil nominiran za sedem oskarjev, med temi tudi za najboljši film in režijo (Terrence Malick), je izjemna mojstrovina, ki jo je Gene Siskel opisal kot "enkraten dosežek" in "najboljši sodobni vojni film".
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
Michael (Robert De Niro), Steven (John Savage) in Nick (Christopher Walken) so prijatelji iz majhnega industrijskega mesta Clairton iz Pennsylvanije. Kot sošolci so skupni prosti čas preživljali v lokalih in na lovih na jelene. Kmalu pa se jim mirno življenje spremeni ko dobijo poziv na nabor za vojno v Vietnamu...
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge. The film is based on a West German anti-war novel of the same name, written by Gregor Dorfmeister.
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.