Nathan Algren er krigsveteran fra den amerikanske borgerkrig. Han tager til Japan for at lære kejser Meijis tropper at bruge skydevåben i kampen mod landets sidste samurai. Men Algren bliver taget til fange af samuraien og ændrer livssyn, da han møder samuraiernes ældgamle traditioner og deres æreskodeks.

I fremtiden bliver vor planet angrebet af en fremmed, krigerisk race. Den internationale flåde forbereder sig på et nyt angreb ved at oplære særligt udvalgte drenge og piger til at bekæmpe fjenden. Blandt de nye rekrutter på militærskolen i rummet er Ender Wiggin. Den unge mand udviser et så ekstraordinært talent for strategi, at officererne udpeger ham til at være Jordens og menneskehedens redningsmand.

I denne skarpt skårne anden verdenskrigs-thriller sejler skipperen på en amerikansk ubåd (Cary Grant) hemmeligt ind i Tokyobugten på en rekognoscerings-mission som en del af forberedelserne til et større allieret angreb på Japan.

A humourous look at the Aleutian Islands and their strategic value.

Artists and the military might seem strange bedfellows, but painters, sculptors, photographers and set designers have played a critical but little-known role in modern warfare. Despite resistance and often ridicule, artists were recruited in both the first and second world wars to devise ways to protect troops and deceive the enemy by using their artistic skills and intimate knowledge of perspective, illusion, shadow and movement. Inspired by nature and influenced by the modernist art movements of their day, camoufleurs created bizarre decoys, dummy tanks and elaborate sets to conceal military installations. They painted thousands of ships in bold, arresting stripes and patterns to confuse enemy submarines. When war went hi-tech there was no room for artists, but over the past few decades artists have reclaimed camouflage for their work.