A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.
Benson Winifred Payne es un veterano del ejército en su última misión. Una vez jubilado intenta reinventar una vida al margen de las duras leyes militares, pero no es una tarea fácil. Las cosas cambian cuando lo llaman a una academia militar para entrenar a un grupo de reclutas muy jóvenes para los juegos militares de Virginia. A los chicos no les gustan sus maneras bruscas y su riguroso entrenamiento, pero después de algunos malentendidos aprenderán a apreciarlo en vista de su mayor logro.
"Me encanta que los planes salgan bien" es la frase identificativa del Coronel Hannibal Smith, el líder de "El Equipo A", una unidad especial de veteranos de la guerra de Iraq, antiguos soldados de las Fuerzas Especiales que fueron acusados de un crimen que no cometieron. Ellos son Hannibal, un experto planificador de misiones ingeniosas que requieren una reacción en una fracción de segundo, habilidades especiales y un equipo de soldados competentes... y excéntricos; Templenton 'Fénix' Peck quien puede conseguir cualquier cosa para las actividades poco ortodoxas y audaces del Equipo; M.A. Barracus, el conductor y músculo del Equipo; y Murdock, un pilo excepcional y loco acreditado. La Capitana Charisa es un antiguo ligue de Fénix que ahora persigue a El Equipo A por un crimen que no cometieron y Lynch es un misterioso agente de la CIA que juega un papel importante en la misión más explosiva del Equipo.
Jay Austin, un policía de San Francisco debe investigar un asesinato cometido en una base militar. Para ello, cuenta con la ayuda del jefe de seguridad, un coronel con el que mantiene una tensa relación, que se agrava desde el momento en el que el policía se enamora de la hija del militar.
Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones), un veterano de guerra, investiga la desaparición de su hijo Mike, el cual, tras regresar de Irak, inexplicablemente se ha ausentado de su base sin permiso. Con la ayuda de la detective Sanders (Charlize Theron) irá reviviendo las experiencias del muchacho en Irak, pero las autoridades militares no dejan de poner trabas a su investigación.
A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
Three young Israeli men join the army, and it soon turns out that they're more interested in chasing skirts than following orders.
A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
A troubled family must face facts when tragedy strikes their son's desolate military post.
Basado en el libro de André Carl van der Merwe, Moffie (un término despectivo en afrikáans para un hombre gay) sigue la historia de Nicholas van der Swart: desde muy joven se da cuenta de que es diferente. Por más que lo intente, no puede estar a la altura de la imagen de macho que espera de él su familia, su herencia. A la edad de 19 años, es reclutado en el ejército sudafricano y encuentra cada sensibilidad ofendida por un sistema cercano a su desaparición, pero que todavía está en plena vigencia. Ambientada durante la guerra fronteriza de Sudáfrica contra el comunismo, esta es una historia muy esperada sobre el sufrimiento emocional y físico que padecen innumerables jóvenes.
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
Every country that enforces the death penalty needs people to kill other people. Four men are put in front of an unthinkable but simple choice. Whatever they decide, it will directly or indirectly corrode them selves, their relationships, and their entire lives.
Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump, but finds it closed for the holiday, so he just dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested, and sends him on a bizarre journey that ends with him in front of the draft board.
Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy.
A sociological study of two men in the Israeli army who are lovers. The others in the unit react to their situation, suspecting, but not always understanding. One will leave the military soon, a few months away, as a snowy and desolate outpost is guarded from attack.
It's time for Jonsson to return to his old regiment to rehearse what he learned during conscription a few years ago. He meets his old friends, platoon leader Larsson and the music loving captain 'Beethoven'. Jonsson and his comrades doesn't take it very serious - but they have a jolly good time. A female journalist follows the exercise to write an article, and gets interested in him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.