Den britiske spion og flugtekspert Patrick Mason skal sammen med videnskabsmanden Stanley Goodspeed og en håndfuld elitesoldater trænge ind i det tidligere fængsel på Alcatraz, hvor general Hummel truer med at sende raketter med giftgas mod San Francisco. Det ligner en umulig opgave, men Mason er den eneste, der er sluppet levende fra den berygtede fængselsø.

A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and goes blind in the first battle, thus taking on a new job: intercepting enemy planes by listening to the air through huge metal funnels.

Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city...

Documentary filmed on May 30-June 3 1990 in USA during Mikhail Gorbachev's American voyage to take part in Washington Summit visit and sign bilateral Soviet-American Chemical Weapons Accord.