Three WWII British sailors on a drunken spree in a Brazilian neutral port mistake a German ship for their own and climb aboard. It turns out to be a pocket battleship, the Ludendorff, and to the credit of the Royal Navy, the trio manages to capture the ship and all the Germans on board.
Colonel Duncan Grant (Brian Aherne) is a British officer during World War I. When the British high command get wind of a German plan, titled The W Plan, from the lips of a dying German officer, Major Ulrich Muller (George Merritt), they send Grant behind enemy lines to learn the details. After successfully being dropped by airplane near the German town of Essen, where he makes his way to home of the dead German who was responsible for the plan. Grant is chosen because he speaks fluent German, having spent a significant amount of time in Germany prior to outbreak of hostilities. While in Essen, he runs into an old girlfriend, Rose Hartmann (Madeleine Carroll). When he and Rose go to a nearby café, he is approached by German officers and asked for his papers. While he has the documents taken from Muller, the Germans become suspicious, and Grant has to make a quick getaway. Unfortunately, the plane he is supposed to meet with to make his escape is shot down, after which Grant is arrested for desertion.
This film is a Christian parable about the end of the world in the Atomic Age told with puppet animation. The film's scope is broad, from the creation of the world to the birth of Christ to the atomic destruction of the Earth. Critics have found the film somewhat preachy, and totally unlike any other film in Tashlin's body of work.
Shakespearean actor Fred Wimbush is called up during WWII, and is performing in drag, entertaining the troops in France, when the Nazis advance. Unless he continues his disguise in women's clothes, Fred fears he will be shot as a spy. The double entendres and bullets fly as he attempts his escape in the company of the pupils from an English girls' finishing school.
Les snipers d'élite Brandon Beckett et Richard Miller sont chargés de protéger un industriel contre des terroristes cherchant à faire passer un message. Mais une fois sur place, les snipers sont attaqués par un tireur invisible qui connaît leur position exacte, leurs déplacements, tout sur eux. Y a-t-il une taupe parmi eux qui donne des informations à l'ennemi ?
Au début des années 1920, plusieurs puissances étrangères décident d'attaquer les États-Unis. Réalisant que leur pays est sans défense, des officiels américains décident d'offrir un million de dollars à quiconque inventera une arme capable de défaire les forces ennemies. Ayant eu connaissance de la récompense, le romancier et détective Winthrop Clavering encourage son ami, le scientifique Bartholomew Thompson, à terminer ses plans d'une torpille volante.
In May 1950, Major Matt Brady is redeployed to Pusan, South Korea. His mission there is to train South Korean pilots in the defensive struggle. Also, there are air support exercises in case of the need to evacuate the Americans. Colonel Schuller sends Brady and Captain MacIntyre to the airbase in Kungju. The American instructors only have 25 days left to introduce the South Korean pilots to US tactics.
Trois histoires entrelacées de solitude et d'isolement autour de Janan, une femme afghane qui se rend au Royaume-Uni pour une insémination artificielle. Des complications surviennent lorsque William, un étudiant en sciences médicales travaillant à la clinique remplace le sperme du donneur par le sien.
Complet avec réel ABC Nouvelles images tournées en Irak, ce film fait pour la télévision raconte la vie d'un groupe de soldats américains qui luttent contre la guerre du Golfe Persique.
In June 1944, Air Commodore Paul Collyer (Farrar) crash lands his plane on return from a reconnaissance mission. He appears to be suffering from amnesia and is unable to pass on the vital information he learned from the mission. The surgeon diagnoses no actual injury to the brain, but states that the memory loss is most likely attributable to shock, and in such cases memory is most often recovered through some mental jolt from the past. Moira Barrett (Campbell) is summoned to his bedside; he seems to recognise her, and his mind starts to go into flashback mode.
Two friends in the Korean Navy, Lee and Kim are both part of an elite diving squad, specialising in emergency deep sea salvage dives. Lee is strait-laced and takes his duties seriously, while Kim treats the Navy as a lark. When Kang, a diving instructor and Kim's former girlfriend, is posted to the unit, this creates tension between the friends as they compete for Kang's affections. The tension is heightened when Lee is promoted ahead of Kim, creating a rivalry between the two. Kim's gung-ho approach to diving, and the danger he poses for himself (and his fellow divers), leads to further problems. Matters come to a head when an incident at sea causes the sinking of a submarine, requiring the unit to attempt a dangerous salvage rescue of the sunken submarine.
In June 1950, while stationed at Kimpo, South Korea, Captain George Slocum (John Hodiak) finds out from his friend, Lieutenant Jerry Barker (Todd Karns), that he has to go to Japan. At the airport, he meets Barker's younger brother, Pete (John Derek), who takes up a Stinson L-5 Sentinel liaison aircraft and begins showing off. George reprimands him for careless flying, but sticks up for him when the military police want to arrest Pete.
The film brims with British comedy talent of the period. The Crazy Gang’s mobile fish and chip shop is accidentally tied to a barrage balloon and the gang is carried to Nazi Germany. They are captured but break out of prison, impersonate Adolf Hitler and return to England in a stolen secret weapon.