
During World War II, Germany looks to its last remaining weapons and soldiers to defeat the Allies. Led by Capt. Hans Kessler, a grizzled submarine commander, the German navy sends U-boats across the sea for a daring mission to attack the U.S. homeland. Meanwhile, the American military devises its own strategy to hunt down and destroy all enemy subs before they reach their target.
During World War II, Germany looks to its last remaining weapons and soldiers to defeat the Allies. Led by Capt. Hans Kessler, a grizzled submarine commander, the German navy sends U-boats across the sea for a daring mission to attack the U.S. homeland. Meanwhile, the American military devises its own strategy to hunt down and destroy all enemy subs before they reach their target.
A Canadian soldier participating in the 1941 Battle of Hong Kong checks into the seedy Royal Hotel, where a maid hopes to throw a Christmas party despite the imminent Japanese invasion.
Wartime nations race to develop the weapon; host Steve Allen.
The story of Sgt. Daniel Hefel, who was one of the final 19 Prisoners of War (POWs) to come home from Vietnam.
The sweeping expanses of the Sahara are the setting for a passionate love affair in this adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel. A badly burned man, Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), is tended to by a nurse, Hana (Juliette Binoche), in an Italian monastery near the end of World War II. His past is revealed through flashbacks involving a married Englishwoman (Kristin Scott Thomas) and his work mapping the African landscape. Hana learns to heal her own scars as she helps the dying man.
Veterans who survived nuclear-weapons accidents tell their stories.
Before the United States enters World War I, some American youths volunteer for the French military. Subsequently, they become the first U.S. fighter pilots and form a squadron known as the Lafayette Escadrille, whose exploits and heroism become the stuff of legend.
Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) leaves his university studies to enlist in combat duty in Vietnam in 1967. Once he's on the ground in the middle of battle, his idealism fades. Infighting in his unit between Staff Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), who believes nearby villagers are harboring Viet Cong soldiers, and Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe), who has a more sympathetic view of the locals, ends up pitting the soldiers against each other as well as against the enemy.
Adaptation of the Pierre Boulle novel about POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American officers plot to blow up the structure, but the commander of the bridge's construction has different plans.