זהו מבט לתוך המצב המציאות של התוהו ובוהו הצבאי והמוסרי בפסיפיק במהלך מלחמת העולם השניה. שלל כוכבים אמריקאים מהשורה הראשונה התייצבו לסרטו הראשון מזה עשרים שנה של טרנס מאליק והתוצאה סרט פיוטי רב עוצמה אודות המלחמה וההרס שאחריה.

הטירון החצוף והכריזמטי רולנד בוז, הצטרף זה עתה למחלקה של חיילים צעירים המתכוננים להפליג לוויטנאם. עצמאיותו של בוז ונטייתו שלא לציית לממונים עליו, מושכים אליו את האש גם מצד חבריו ליחידה וגם מצד הקצונה הבכירה. אבל כאשר המחלקה נשלחת לטייגרלנד, בסיס אימונים מן הגהנום - התחנה האחרונה לפני וויטנאם - כושר המנהיגות של בוז הוא זה אשר מאחד את האנשים לכדי תוצאות יוצאות מן הכלל.

An aimless, jobless, irresponsible grown man joins the army and matures into a battlefield hero.

כאשר חייל צעיר בווייטנאם נזרק מחברתו אשר בעיר הולדתו, הוא וחברו טוב מחליטים לערוק ולחזור לארצות הברית כדי לזכות בליבה.

חייל עריק שברשותו מידע ממשלתי סודי, הוא איש מבוקש, נרדף על ידי המבצעים המיוחדים של רוסיה , משטרת לוס אנג'לס, ורוצח מסוכן.

Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus tightrope walker and a lieutenant forsake everything to be together and escape to the countryside—only to see their lovers’ idyll gradually give way to poverty and desperation.

A government-trained killing machine must turn his lethal skills against his top-secret squad's AWOL leader

Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidently destroy an ammunition dump.

In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.

A G.I. in occupied Japan tries to re-woo his old love, who's putting on a show for the troops.

This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating from wounds suffered in battle. He is weary of war and is intent on going AWOL and escaping from Australia. He becomes infatuated with a local singer, Kathy and pursues her. Kathy is married and initially is not interested in him, but later begins to love Rebel. Kathy receives a letter advising her that her husband was killed in battle. The local police and the U.S. Military are searching for Rebel as an AWOL soldier. Rebel arranges to escape Austalia by a cargo ship, but eventually allows himself to be arrested in order to keep the local police from arresting Kathy for harboring him

An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.

In Australia, four teenagers in a Sydney theater are astounded to hear the news that a nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. They try to figure out the best way they can survive the coming conflagration.

In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who is little older than she. Ed is suddenly drafted into the army and is to be sent overseas to battle while Daisy is sent to her father in Auckland. When Ed's leave is cancelled at the last minute he takes the dangerous decision to go absent without leave to be with Daisy on her journey home. As a deserter, Ed is hunted, captured and imprisoned. Life inside is bad enought without the worry of what is going on outside. The film is based upon a true story.

A man, thought to be dead, returns to his hometown in Florida. He finds his wife re-married and the town now ruled by corrupt forces.

As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up, his commanding officer orders him to perform for the troops.

Two marines go AWOL and save a girl from drowning, they then sneak her aboard the ship.