During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.

As the Allied armies close in, the Germans decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen?

Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on.

Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

This dramatic retelling of the Pearl Harbor attack details everything in the days that led up to that tragic moment in American history. As United States and Japanese relations strain over the U.S. embargo of raw materials, Air Staff Officer Minoru Genda (Tatsuya Mihashi) plans the preemptive strike against the United States. Although American intelligence agencies intercept Japanese communications hinting at the attack, they are unwilling to believe such a strike could ever occur on U.S. soil. Written by Jwelch5742

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Trivia When the officer tells the pilot "No, you idiot, it's your own flagship," he is technically correct. The Japanese carrier Akagi was the flagship of Carrier Division 1, and carried the flag of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. When the officer tells the pilot "No, you idiot, it's your own flagship," he is technically correct. The Japanese carrier Akagi was the flagship of Carrier Division 1, and carried the flag of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. See more

Goofs At the beginning of the launch sequence, Admiral Nagumo, Lt. Cmdr. Genda, and some other officers exit the bridge to the platform, allowing them to look down on the deck of the Akagi, where deck crew are spotting the aircraft for launch. The door to the bridge, which is supposed to be steel plate, is obviously made of a much lighter material. At the beginning of the launch sequence, Admiral Nagumo, Lt. Cmdr. Genda, and some other officers exit the bridge to the platform, allowing them to look down on the deck of the Akagi, where deck crew are spotting the aircraft for launch. The door to the bridge, which is supposed to be steel plate, is obviously made of a much lighter material. See more

Crazy Credits For the U.S. version, the next to last of the main credits reads "Japanese Sequences Directed by Toshio Masuda Kinji Fukasaku" and the last credit reads, "Directed by Richard Fleischer." For the version released in Japan, the next to last credit reads, "American Sequences Directed by Richard Fleischer" and the final credit reads, "Directed by Toshio Masuda Kinji Fukasaku." For the U.S. version, the next to last of the main credits reads "Japanese Sequences Directed by Toshio Masuda Kinji Fukasaku" and the last credit reads, "Directed by Richard Fleischer." For the version released in Japan, the next to last credit reads, "American Sequences Directed by Richard Fleischer" and the final credit reads, "Directed by Toshio Masuda Kinji Fukasaku." See more

Alternate Versions The original release included a line by Admiral Halsey ( The original release included a line by Admiral Halsey ( James Whitmore ) saying that after the war, Japanese will only be spoken in Hell. This line is removed from later releases. See more