En ny trussel nærmer sig i efterkrigstidens Japan: Godzilla. En forhenværende kamikazepilot tvinges til at tage kampen op.
Under Stillehavskrigen i 1942 stod de amerikanske og japanske flådestyrker over for hinanden ved øen Midway, hvor et vigtigt slag snart skulle stå. Flådens fly blev for første gang brugt i udstrakt grad og fik en afgørende betydning for krigens videre udfald. Filmen, der i forkortet form ofte kaldes Midway, er i store træk historisk korrekt. Som lidt kulør på historien er dog tilsat en opdigtet kærlighedshistorie om en amerikansk pilot og en hawaiiansk pige.
Under napoleonskrigene bliver det britiske skib Surprise pludselig angrebet af det franske kaperskib Acheron. Surprise bliver alvorligt skadet, og en stor del af mandskabet såres. Alligevel er kaptajn Jack Aubrey fast besluttet på at tage kampen op med Acheron. Han sætter efter det franske skib på en yderst risikabel mission.
I 1942 sejler U-96 ud på Nordatlantens jagtmarker, hvor den tyske flådes ulvekoppel angriber de allierede konvojer, der holder Storbritannien i live. I månedsvis lever besætningen som sild i en tønde, mens de venter på byttet. Da det går løs, bliver de selv de jagede, og dybvandsbomberne driver u-båden længere og længere ned i dybet. Kaptajnen: Jürgen Prochnow. Løjtnant Werner: Herbert Grönemeyer. Maskinmester: Klaus Wennemann. Manuskript og instruktion: Wolfgang Petersen efter Lothar Günther-Buchheims selvbiografiske roman.
Kwaidan er japansk for spøgelseshistorie, hvilket afslører indholdet i den anerkendte instruktør Masaki Kobayashis klassiske gyserantologi. Beskrevet af den legendariske filmkritiker Roger Ebert som "en samling spøgelseshistorier, som hører til de smukkeste film, jeg har set", vinder af juryprisen i Cannes samt nomineret til Oscaren for bedste udenlandske film.
Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable merchant captain, offers his services to the King of England. Seeking a social position, Kidd also negotiates for Blayne's title and lands, provided he can prove Blayne was associated with piracy. Launched upon his royal mission, Kidd is unaware that Blayne's son Adam is among the crew, determined to clear his father's name.
Med Union Jack stolt vajende i vinden stævner HMS Torrin ud for at tage i krig. Om bord er hundredvis af mænd med det samme anonyme ansigt, som alle andre soldater, man ser på afstand. Men kameraet sniger sig tættere på, og vi finder ud af, at de er rigtige mennesker. Vi følger bl.a. kaptajnen (Noel Coward) og den skræmte sømand, der forlader sin stilling midt i en kamp (Richard Attenborough). Under et angreb ud for Kreta sker det, som alle frygter - skibet bliver ramt og synker med de fleste om bord.
The story of USS 'Belinda', a U.S. naval ship, and its crew during the battle of the Pacific 1943-1945, as it prepares for action and landing troops on enemy beachheads.
Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces and the United States Navy, and released by Warner Bros. for the War Activities Committee shortly after the surrender of Japan. Follow General Douglas MacArthur and his men from their exile from the Philippines in early 1942, through the signing of the instrument of surrender on the USS Missouri on September 1, 1945. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Featuring Charles 'Bud' Tingwell in only his second film and first lead role, which helped prepare him for his part in the 1953 World War Two Hollywood action drama, 'The Desert Rats'. 'Always Another Dawn' celebrates the Australian Navy's contribution to the Allied victory in WW2. The ship (Dauntless) is based on the real-life HMAS Yarra, which was sunk by a Japanese cruiser squadron on 4 March 1942 with 138 lives lost. Assisted by the Royal Australian Navy, filming took place at Flinders Naval Depot Melbourne and aboard the destroyer HMAS Bataan.
Equal parts documentary, essay, and narrative,"Captain Elliot's Circle" is mostly a poetic interaction with an obscure corner of Chinese and British history. Constructed using primary source documents about the taking of Zhoushan, Britain's first choice for a seaport, in the late 1830s,this movie uses Captain Charles Elliot's reluctance to brutalize the Chinese to reflect on the cyclical nature of history and the power structures that move it. The long takes used throughout function to illustrate the dramatically different ways in which people who lived in the mid-19th century perceived time. Additionally, it represents the psychological effect of living on an island regardless of what era you were born in.The last third of the movie focuses on a young woman whose strange day job has taken her far away from the island of Zhoushan generations after Captain Charles Elliot was last there. "Captain Elliot's Circle" was shot on location in Zhoushan and Hangzhou.
Lt. Scott Reynolds is co-pilot on a B-17 bomber. When his ship is forced to ditch at sea, only Reynolds survives. The nine other crew members died as a result of insufficient training in ditching procedure. Sent back to the States and promoted, Captain Reynolds takes command of a new B-17 and indoctrinates his crew carefully in the proper methods of preparation for ditching and for survival at sea thereafter.
This film takes a fresh look at the Battle of Trafalgar through the eyes of the HMS Victory's surgeon and his medical team that supported the brutal tactics leading to Nelson's victory over the French navy. However, there was one patient they did not save.