During the 1920s, French Foreign Legion Major William Foster's (Gene Hackman's) unit is protecting an archaeological dig, but the discovery of an Arab sacred burial site prompts the angry Arab tribes to attack Foster's small garrison.
Johnny Tremain is drawn into the Revolutionary War, and becomes a patriot fighting to free the colonies from England. Along the way he learns about life and about himself.
Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
During WW2, a platoon of Marines crash-lands on a tiny Pacific island occupied by a small Japanese unit.
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
At the dawn of a civil war in Yugoslavia, a chance encounter brings together a color blind truck driver and a free-spirited city girl. Their road trip proves to be fateful.