Au XIXe siècle, lors de l'intervention des Français au Mexique, Hogan, un mercenaire, sauve la religieuse Sara d'une tentative de viol par trois bandits. Elle se dit pourchassée par les Français, ceux-là mêmes qui détiennent le fort, dont Hogan a pour mission de découvrir les failles de ses défenses. Sara décide de l'aider dans sa mission…
Stroszek, un jeune soldat allemand, après avoir été blessé à la guerre, se retrouve au repos dans un fort en Grèce, chargé de surveiller un dépôt de munitions. Le désœuvrement, la chaleur et l'isolement le font sombrer peu à peu dans une folie sublime. Stroszek veut enflammer la mer et le Soleil, menace de faire sauter le dépôt de poudre et devient un véritable danger pour son entourage.
A German mother, Elisabeth Vincken (Linda Hamilton), who had already lost her eldest son in the Battle of Stalingrad and whose husband is a cook serving in the German army, and her son, Fritz, are seeking refuge in a cabin near the front lines in the Ardennes forests region of western Europe. They are invaded by three American soldiers and then soon after three German soldiers, and after much resistance the mother manages to convince the enemy soldiers to put aside their differences for one night and share a Christmas dinner. The Germans were planning to kill the Americans, but eventually they and the American soldiers share their rations to make a proper Christmas dinner. This includes homemade cookies and other goodies. Throughout the night the Americans and Germans befriend each other, despite the fact that they will eventually have to return to the war. The next morning an American MP soldier comes and is surprised by what he sees. As he learns of what has happened he turns his rifle on the American soldiers and begins talking with the Germans. Realizing the officer is really a German soldier who has infiltrated the American lines, the Americans surrender and the three German soldiers get their weapons. The German infiltrator then orders the three other soldiers to execute the Americans. Just before he is about to shoot the mother, one of the German soldiers knocks him out, saving her. The soldiers depart, with the Americans taking the German infiltrator as a prisoner of war, and also one of the Germans, who is only fourteen - neither side wants him to die in a future battle. The Germans also return to their side. All say good bye and wish each other good luck for the rest of the war. In the present day, an elder Fritz (Michael Sinelnikoff) is visited by Private Jimmy Rassi's grandson, Christopher, with Fritz handing over Rassi's dogtags.
Prior to the Dieppe Raid, seven US Army Rangers come ashore. Their mission is to destroy a German communications centre that controls the coastal guns that threaten the Canadian amphibious assault.
En 1968, à la suite d'un raid sur la Maison Bleue de Séoul par des militaires nord-coréens, le gouvernement du Sud met en place un centre d'entraînement militaire sur l'île de Silmido afin de former, dans le plus grand secret, un commando de 31 hommes nommé « unité 684 ». Il devra être envoyé à Pyongyang pour y assassiner le président nord-coréen Kim Il-sung. Pour cela, des rebuts de la société, condamnés à morts ou à la prison à vie, sont recrutés. Malheureusement, à la suite d'un rapprochement avec la Corée du Nord, la KCIA impose, pour ne pas révéler ce projet, l'exécution de l'unité entière...
The film is about Simon (Bill Skarsgård), growing up in a working-class family on the outskirts of Gothenburg during World War II. He is very talented and always felt different and an outsider. Against his parents' approval, he seeks education and the arts which as a working class kid normally not attend. There he meets Isaak (Karl Linnertorp), the son of a wealthy Jewish bookseller who fled persecution in Nazi Germany. The two boys and their families' lives are interwoven while war rages in Europe. At the end of the war, it becomes clear to Simon that his life, family and his very identity will no longer be the same.
Three men have been convicted of the same murder of the, admittedly, quite reprehensible Floyd Cooper, and sit on death row awaiting execution the following mourning. However, only one bullet could have struck the victim first, so only one of the three men is actually guilty of murder, since "the other two shot into a corps," and so must be innocent; but which two? Professor Varney's machine, a kind of lie detector, will determine who is guilty as each man tells the story of how he came to know, hate, and kill the victim.
Dans le Singapour d'avant-guerre, Matt Gordon rencontre Linda Grahame dont il tombe amoureux. Mais ils sont séparés par l'invasion japonaise. Cinq ans plus tard, Gordon revient à Singapour pour récupérer des perles volées. Il tombe accidentellement sur Linda, qui souffre d'amnésie et ne se rappelle pas les années d'avant-guerre. En outre, Linda est mariée à un Anglais qu'elle a rencontré dans le camp de prisonniers où les Japonais l'avaient internée.
Le film consiste en partie d'interviews de vétérans du Viêt Nam qui racontent les raisons pour lesquelles ils ont manifesté leur opposition à la guerre voire ont quitté l'armée.