本片是《接觸未來》性格男星馬修麥康納與《美國殺人魔》克里斯汀貝爾攜手合作的科幻動作片，導演是《X檔案─征服未來》的導演勞勃波曼。 在倫敦的某處，沈睡地底多年的噴火巨龍，因地下工程的施工而被喚醒並飛離洞穴，40多年後，巨龍與其繁殖的無數後代佔領了地球，人類文明因而被摧毀殆盡，只能躲在廢棄城堡的洞穴中，靠未被噴火龍摧毀的農作物為生。 倫敦地區的人類領袖昆恩是一個自小母親便死於巨龍火舌的孤兒，帶領著該區僅存的人類與怪龍對抗；某日，來自外地的美國義勇軍官范桑與他的軍隊前來援助，起初昆恩拒絕外來客的支援，後來才明白原來美國人一樣飽受噴火龍摧殘之苦，於是兩支大軍結合力量，計畫消滅最早逃出的巨龍皇后，為人類的生存與希望而戰。
Rie is a PR-coordinator visiting a tunnel boring machine to portray the well-oiled European cooperation in the Metro construction when an accident suddenly occurs. Unable to escape, she takes refuge in an airlock with Croatian miner Ivo and Bharan, a worker from Eritrea.
Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.
East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their underground path to freedom.
An engineer is hired to plan and oversee the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. However, certain interests don't want to see the tunnel built and use every means at their disposal, including sabotage and murder, to stop its construction. French-language version of the 1933 German DER TUNNEL, q.v.
In this docudrama, the real star is a railroad tunnel. First built, at the instigation of a banker and an engineer, in 1872 under appalling conditions, it was widened to accommodate automobiles in 1972. The tunnel links the Rhineland in Germany with Italy and goes through the Swiss mountains. The many lives lost in the building of the first tunnel were considered to be one of the costs for economic progress. In one re-enactment, a strike for better conditions is severely dealt with by the military. Even in 1972, though working conditions were better, most of the men working on the tunnel were poor immigrant workers, with almost no power to negotiate better treatment.
The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but what did it take to build the longest undersea tunnel ever constructed? We hear from the men and women, who built this engineering marvel. Massive tunnel boring machines gnawed their way through rock and chalk, digging not one tunnel but three; two rail tunnels and a service tunnel. This was a project that would be privately financed; not a penny of public money would be spent on the tunnel. Business would have to put up all the money and take all the risks. This was also a project that was blighted by flood, fire, tragic loss of life and financial bust ups. Today, it stands as an engineering triumph and a testament to what can be achieved when two nations, Britain and France put aside their historic differences and work together.
