Kampoperationerne har krævet meget af John Rambo, men nu har han endelig fundet indre fred i et kloster. Så dukker hans mentor, Oberst Trautman, op for at bede Rambo om hjælp ved en tophemmelig mission i Afghanistan. Rambo har fået nok af krig, så han afslår. Men da Trautman bliver taget til fange, forvandler Rambo sig til en krigsmaskine. For at redde sin ven, udløser han det rene helvede...
2. verdenskrig truer og den unge kvindelige spion Wong Chia-Chi (Wang Tei) bliver sat til at udspionere den højtstående japanske minister Mr. Yee (Tony Leung). Under dække som Mrs. Mak forsøger hun at komme ind på livet af ham, men hurtigt erfarer hun, hvor svært det er at være intim med fjenden uden samtidig at involvere sig følelsesmæssigt.
Lindum Svendsen er en rigtig led inspektør på en sort skole i provinsen i 1960'ernes Danmark. En dag kommer den nyuddannede og langhårede Freddie Svale til skolen som lærer. De to har bestemt ikke samme mening om pædagogik, og da Svendsen en dag mishandler eleven Fritz, bliver fronterne for alvor trukket op. Sammen med drengens forældre beslutter Svale at gøre op med inspektørens rædselsregime.
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan. Achmed El Corda, the son of Halef's Hadedhin Beduin tribe's sheik Mohammed Emin, has been captured by the machredsh (Turkish governor) of Mossul for resisting water seizure by his Turkish troops. Kara takes charge of the rescue.
Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.
The war on drugs has been going on for more than three decades. Today, nearly 500,000 Americans are imprisoned on drug charges. In 1980 the number was 50,000. Last year $40 billion in taxpayer dollars were spent in fighting the war on drugs. As a result of the incarceration obsession, the United States operates the largest prison system on the planet. Today, 89 percent of police departments have paramilitary units, and 46 percent have been trained by active duty armed forces. The most common use of paramilitary units is serving drug-related search warrants, which usually involve no-knock entries into private homes.