Cu numai câteva ore înainte de Marea Debarcare din Normandia, o trupă de parașutiști americani aterizează în Franța ocupată de naziști cu o misiune crucială pentru succesul invaziei. Însărcinați cu distrugerea unui emițător radio aflat pe o biserică fortificată, soldații își unesc forțele cu o tânără localnică pentru a distruge turnul bisericii. Dar biserica ascunde ceva terifiant în catacombe – un laborator secret nazist, unde soldații americani vor avea de înfruntat inamici cum nimeni nu a văzut vreodată.
Un expert în arte marțiale cu o pregătire avansată își găsește un loc de muncă ca și recuperator. Lucrurile par să fie simple, dar se complică atunci când un client îl implică într-o situație mult mai complexă decât și-ar fi imaginat vreodată.
Sergeant Johnny Drake runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy Captain 'Rip' Murdock gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow.
Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.
Charlie becomes a paratrooper, but, while serving in North Africa, he mistakenly kills one of his fellow U.S. soldiers, who is masquerading as a Nazi in order to wipe out a nest of the enemy. Shunned by his fellow soldiers, including his childhood friend Ace, Charlie is forced to prove himself when it is left up to him to transport a generator across an open road in full view of Nazi attackers.
A paratrooper drops behind enemy lines to rescue the deposed king of a mythical Balkan nation.
German Paratroopers are ordered to hold the line at Monte Cassino in Italy, and halt the allied advance on Rome.
Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from. Afterwards they become big shots in the States but their dream comes to an end : they are sent to fight in Vietnam
World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American soldier is imprisoned by the enemy. He escapes with four Italian prisoners, enlisting their aid in exploding a bridge.
Re-enactment of World War 2 Battle of Arnhem using the survivors from the battle.
Nazi propaganda short about paratroopers