Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973.
In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating yo...
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational s...
In Paris in full German occupation in 1942, a Jewish child Isaac escapes a raid organized by the SS....
A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in ...
Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. The...
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...
During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To dis...
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to se...
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against ...
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...
During the 16th century, pirates rule the Chinese coastline, pillaging the small villages and terror...
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca...
1939: Rome stands on the brink of World War II. In the midst of this political and social tension fa...
In the 1940s, a small band of underground paramilitaries attempt to fight back against the Soviet-ba...