Filmul lui Gibson spune povestea contestatarului adventist Desmond Doss, care a refuzat să ucidă sau să poarte arme datorită convingerilor sale religioase, dar a servit ca medic, alături de americanii care au luptat împotriva japonezilor în Pacific. Filmul se concentrează pe bătălia de la Okinawa din 1945, unde Doss s-a ocupat de unul singur de 75 de răniți, chiar sub focul inamic. A fost decorat cu Medalia de Onoare a Congresului pentru curajul său, de președintele american Harry Truman.
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.
Shane Wolfe, pușcaș marin din trupele S.E.A.L.S. trebuie să jongleze cu două slujbe simultan. Să fie gata să sară la bătaie împotriva inamicului și să facă pe bona cumsecade pentru copiii unui om de știință, aflați în mare pericol după ce tatăl lor fusese asasinat pentru o invenție secretă. Shane adaugă arsenalului militar pe care-l are în posesie vreo două surprize: câteva biberoane cu suc de fructe și lapte și o dubiță trăsnet, numai bună pentru cinci copii.
Pe ruta de întoarcere spre SUA, la bordul celui mai sigur avion din lume, Forța Aeriană Unu (Air Force One), Marshall si personalul său descoperă cu stupoare că unul dintre jurnaliștii care îi însoțește este nimeni altul decât Korshunov, deghizat în reporter. Alături de trei parteneri de-ai săi, Korshunov deturnează avionul luându-l ostatic pe președinte, precum și pe soția si fiica acestuia. Marshall trebuie să-și păstreze stăpânirea de sine, sângele rece și să dea dovadă de inteligență pentru a dejuca planurile teroriștilor.
Sergentul Tom Highway, un infanterist care a trecut prin toate războaiele, mai are destule motive de luptă. În timpul serviciului dinaintea retragerii se gândește retrospectiv la viața sa influentă de ofițeri impecabili și de o fostă soție teribilă, de care este încă atras.
Închis pentru insubordonare, un general erou este trimis la o închisoare militară condusă de un director dur. Între cei doi se iscă un conflict.
In response to political pressure from Senator Lillian DeHaven, the U.S. Navy begins a program that would allow for the eventual integration of women into its services. The program begins with a single trial candidate, Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil, who is chosen specifically for her femininity. O'Neil enters the grueling training program under the command of Master Chief John James Urgayle, who unfairly pushes O'Neil until her determination wins his respect.
Colonelul Katherine Powell se trezește devreme într-o dimineață și aude că un coleg a fost ucis de grupul terorist Al-Shabaab. De la sediul Northwood ea începe apoi să conducă o misiune de a captura liderii extremiști ai grupului care urmează să se întâlnească în Nairobi, Kenya. O echipă multinațională numeroasă lucrează împreună în această misiune și sunt conectați prin intermediul imaginilor video. Imaginile aeriene sunt surprinse cu ajutorul unei drone Reaper controlată de Steve Watts.
During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discover that a terrorist group have access to deadly US built Stinger missiles, and must set out to locate and destroy them before they can be used.
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.
In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game–only with real lives at stake. After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned bunker in the Nevada desert. But as he yearns to get back in the cockpit of a real plane and becomes increasingly troubled by the collateral damage he causes each time he pushes a button, Egan’s nerves—and his relationship with his wife—begin to unravel.
A group of people fight to survive in a zombie infested town.
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.
On its last leg homeward, from Pearl Harbour (Hawaii) to San Diego, the USS Constellation hosts a jolly 'tiger cruise' for USNavy, Marines and USNAF relatives, mainly minors ('Navy brats'). Attitudes and emotions vary from simple joy to open frustration, the worst brat being XO commander Gary Dolan's daughter Maddie, who wants him to refuse a promotion to command for a shore job. Then the news of the WCC terror crisis changes everything, as the crew is recalled to war footing.
Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.
After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy for others.
Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.
Hanna secretly joins a group called The Onania Club. Its members, strong independent L.A. women, get aroused by the misery of others. Hanna meets more misery than she could ever hope for and in the process loses everything she cares for.
After serving in the military for more than twenty years, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer (Glenn Close) had seen her share of battles. But nothing could prepare her for the fight ahead: an intensely personal struggle against the U.S. Army when she becomes the highest ranking officer ever to be discharged for being a lesbian. With the support of her partner Diane (Judy Davis), Cammermeyer undertakes an against-all-odds battle against the Army's policy. But to do so, she must risk everything – her career, her privacy and even the love of her family.