Le film retrace les « faits d'armes » de ceux que l'Histoire a retenu sous le nom des cinq martyrs du lycée Buffon : cinq lycéens qui, sous l'impulsion d'un de leurs professeurs, décident à la fin de l'année 1941 de partir en guerre contre l'occupant.
In pre-World War I Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm fathers a number of illegitimate children and sends them to various parts of the world to be reared by his loyal agents. Under the guardianship of Dr. Carl Von Strumpf, one of these children, Robert Busch, grows up believing that he is the son of wealthy German-American Richard Busch, but in reality, Strumpf and Busch are servants of the Kaiser. When the United States declares war on Germany, Robert expresses his earnest desire to enlist in the American army, much to the delight of his patriotic sister Emily. Before he can do so, however, Strumpf tells Robert the secret of his parentage, believing that the young man now will be eager to fight for Germany's cause. Robert feigns enthusiasm but secretly offers his services to the U.S. government, and with the passport provided him by the Pan-German league, he goes to Germany and kills the crown prince. Next, he shoots the Kaiser and blows up the entire palace, thus sacrificing his life for the principles of democracy.
L'ambition croissante de Jules César est source de préoccupation pour son cher ami Brutus. Cassius convainc Brutus à participer à son complot pour assassiner César, mais ils ont tous les deux gravement sous-évalué Marc-Antoine.
According to a contemporary New York Times article, the first half of the film shows "Armenia as it was before Turkish and German devastation, and led up to the deportation of priests and thousands of families into the desert. One of the concluding scenes showed young Armenian women flogged for their refusal to enter Turkish harems and depicted the Turkish slave markets."
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.
Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, une jeune femme médecin tombe amoureuse d’un de ses patients qui s’avère être un espion allemand. Après l'élimination de ce dernier, elle décide de le venger en devenant une agente au sein du service de renseignement allemand. Envoyée en mission à Salonique, dans ce port grec d'où partent les opérations militaires des Alliés vers les Balkans, elle se fait passer pour une journaliste américaine et réussit à s'introduire au quartier général du commandement allié. Elle y rencontre un bel officier français, dont elle s'éprend sur le champ. S'ensuit, pour elle, un dilemme entre le devoir et l'amour. (Source : Wikipédia) Version anglaise de "Salonique, nid d'espion"/"Mademoiselle Docteur" de G.
Two Union officers, Captain Lewis Dumont and his younger brother, Lieutenant Henry Dumont, receive orders from General Ulysses S. Grant Grant to go behind enemy lines and become undercover agents to feed false information to the Confederate States Army. Lewis is tasked with becoming part of a Confederate telegraph office in Richmond, Virginia, under the guise of a deceased Confederate officer, Thorne. Meanwhile, Henry is ordered to allow himself to be captured by the enemy, during which he is supposed to pass incorrect information about Union positions.
Three friends who work on the Coney Island boardwalk, Skeets O'Reilly, Baltimore Clark, and Dutch Herman are all in love with the same woman, Sally. At the outbreak of World War I, the three men enlist in the US Navy. Before they leave for active duty, both Skeets and Baltimore meet with Sally, with the intention of letting her know how they feel about her. Baltimore can't bear the thought of Sally rejecting him, so he never discloses the depths of his feelings towards her. Skeets does propose to her, which she gently declines, being secretly in love with Baltimore.
On the western front during World War I, American forces attempt to retain control of a French town. Sergeant Bill Thatcher (Bill Boyd), the non-commissioned officer in charge of the forces, goes to visit several wounded men. The first, "Bud" (Russell Gleason) relates his story of how he joined the military, leaving the family farm to enlist, despite his mother's pleas for him not to go get involved in foreign conflicts. As he finishes his story, he dies.
Felix and Cat are recruited and trained to be secret agents and are sent to occupied France where they organise resistance, carrying out sabotage and helping airmen get back to the UK.