The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a fortnight. Such losses place a fearsome strain on Gresham, commanding officer of the squadron. Aces High recreates the early days of the Royal Flying Corps with some magnificently staged aerial battles, and sensitive direction presents a moving portrayal of the futilities of war.

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois a...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, h...

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return...

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...

The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in...

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the div...

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within t...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being acc...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to figh...

A series of explosions carried out by an oil drilling platform in the North Sea causes little earth...

Two men who bear a striking resemblance to each befriend each other while stationed in France during...

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...