On the eve of the Operation Desert Storm in the first Gulf War, the Italian government deployed eight Tornado Fighter-bombers. Gianmarco Bellini was one of the pilots, shot down, captured, abused and returned beat up but able to rise to the rank of General.

Frank Maselskis was a prisoner of war in World War II. Despite the horrible experiences of being a prisoner Frank decides to join in the Korean War, where he participates in the battle of Chosin, a brutal combat that took place in the most extreme weather conditions.

During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however, hundreds of captured private soldiers try to survive hunger and cold.

Giorgio Mattia describes his experiences during the second attack on the Italian Army in Nasiriya, Iraq 2006.

One of the first ‘frogmen’ in the Navy Reserve fights to survive missions behind enemy lines and his own capture at the Mauthausen concentration camp.

Shot during the Nagorno-Karabakh War, "Fəryad" is only one of its kind. Following the Khojaly Massacre, Ismayil, an officer tasked with collecting the bodies, crosses enemy lines to avenge the brutal murder of a local schoolgirl. There he gets captured by Armenians and waits for the day to be exchanged for an enemy POW.

A World War II American pilot hatches a plan to use a cow to help him avoid capture and find his way across Germany to freedom.

In the revolutionary year of 1968, Stane is an active rebel student. Mojca is a freshman, has a boyfriend named Vid, whom she met at the carnival party. There she also met her later husband Stane. Vid leaves for military service, while Stane successfully avoids it. During the glorification of this event, Mojca and Stane come together intimately. Upon his return from the army, Vid discovers this love triangle. Stane and Mojca get married. The death of the child and the awareness that Stane is cheating on her, leads Mojca to divorce.

During World War II there were nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British North Borneo. Along with the ravages of war and the struggle to survive abject conditions, only six of these POW's were found alive when the war finally ended. In the years that followed, the horror stories of human depravity and the atrocities committed by the Japanese at Sandakan POW camp would come to light, considered by many as one of the most devastating chapters of the Pacific War.

Melodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1960s. Krueger (Bramhall), a former infantry lieutenant, is imprisoned at Quai Dong, on the South China Sea, for refusing to fight. After a year at hard labor, he is told to use his Vietnamese language skills to question a Viet Cong suspect. The prisoner is drugged and tortured during the interrogation. Krueger eventually stops the torture by pretending that the prisoner has disclosed the location of a supply dump.

Des aviateurs américains tombent aux mains des allemands au cours d'un raid sur la France. Ceux-ci réussissent à leur arracher des renseignements d'apparence insignifiants, mais dont le nombre leur permet de connaître la date et le lieu du bombardement suivant...

Documentary of an Imperial Japanese Army regiment's advance from Shanghai to Wuhan in 1938. This film was shelved before submission to Home Ministry censors amid rumors that Fumio was a Communist.

Dans les îles du Pacifique, en 1944, aux alentours d'un camp de prisonniers anglais, un avion est abattu et son pilote se cache dans la jungle. Les japonais partent à la recherche du fugitif qui est, en réalité, une jeune femme investie d'une importante mission dont le but est l'anéantissement de la résistance déjà affaiblie des nippons. Les prisonniers anglais recueillent la jeune femme et, en attendant de la faire passer dans une zone moins dangereuse, la cachent, habillée en homme, parmi eux...

11 septembre 2001. Du haut des montagnes afghanes, Vergos, journaliste français, apprend l'attaque des tours du World Trade Center par les terroristes d'Al-Quaida. Il se souvient...1984. Nikolaï, jeune musicien soviétique, débarque en Afghanistan comme des milliers d'autres conscrits pour livrer une guerre qui n'est pas la sienne. La peur au ventre à chaque instant, il se retrouve plongé dans un monde de violence et de mort. Un jour, lors d'une opération commandée, il est capturé par des Moudjahidin du Commandant Massoud qui l'emmènent au coeur des montagnes où se terrent les résistants afghans et Vergos, venu clandestinement en Afghanistan. Tandis que certains veulent sa mort, d'autres se prennent de compassion pour lui. Peu à peu, des liens d'amitié et de complicité se nouent entre le soldat soviétique, le journaliste français, et les Moudjahidin...

The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.

Affecté à une école de pilotage pour jeunes délinquants, un ancien as de l'US Air Force se voit relégué au rôle d'entraîneur d'un groupe de recrues peu disciplinées. Alors qu'il tente de mener à bien sa mission, il découvre que l'école sert de couverture à un odieux traffic ....

Two mercenaries are hired to commit a political assassination.

American soldiers, captured by North Korean's, are periodically brainwashed into giving up their capitalist ways to join the communist movement.

A story set in post-war Helsinki, where the last released prisoners of war arrive. They are accompanied by Captain Erkki Lahtinen, who returns to his home and back to his wife Jenni. However, during his four-year imprisonment, Erkki has been pronounced dead and Jenni has remarried to office manager Nevamaa.

Jorge, a young Ecuadorian, is unexpectedly in the middle of the jungle as an inexperienced soldier. At first, Jorge is confident that military experience makes you a recognized and respected man. But he finds out that the reality is very different; as the private may face neglect, hunger, death and nature, especially human nature. Captive in an enemy camp, Jorge must discover who he has become as he recovers from his injuries and struggles to escape with his fellow prisoner Hugo or stay there under the care of the Peruvian nurse Dolores. Difficult decisions ... beyond the target and border that divides them are abound.