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Lieutenant Nikolai is a member of the Soviet Special Forces assigned to infiltrate a rebel uprising and assassinate the leader, who is causing problems for the Cuban forces occupying the territory. When Nikolai fails the mission, he pays the price -- torture from the Cuban leaders! He manages to escape to the desert and find the rebel army once more, but this time he is on their side! It's all-out warfare as he leads a daring attack against his former...

A wounded American soldier falls in love with his beautiful English nurse during World War I.

Stryker (Wayne), a hard-nosed Marine sergeant prepares a company of recruits for combat in World War II's Pacific Theater. The new unit's training is soon put to the test in a full-scale battle against the Japanese on Iwo Jima. The famous flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi is depicted near the film's conclusion.

Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.

Mathilde is waiting desperately for her fiance to return from the war. When bad news arrives she refuses to believe he is dead. Instead, she begins her own investigation into his infantry, hiring a private detective and piecing together his war stories.

Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.

British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.

A mix of war movies and documentaries that detail great battles and campaigns. Stars like Sidney Poitier, Van Johnson, John Ireland, and Montgomery Clift bring the immediacy of conflict to life and celebrity narrators like Ronald Reagan, Clark Gable, and Burgess Meredith helm classic documentaries that convey key military campaigns.