Segona Guerra Mundial. Durant l'ocupació de França pels alemanys, Shosanna Dreyfus presencia l'execució de la seva família a mans del grup comandat pel coronel nazi Hans Landa. Després de fugir a París, Shosanna adopta una nova identitat com a propietària d'un cinema. Per altra banda, el tinent Aldo Raine entrena un grup de soldats jueus per atacar objectius concrets. Els homes de Raine, acompanyats d'una actriu alemanya que treballa per als aliats, hauran de dur a terme una missió que podria fer caure els caps del Tercer Reich. El destí vol que tots es trobin sota la marquesina del cinema de Shosanna, que espera el moment de la venjança.

El Capità Willard és un oficial dels serveis d'intel·ligència de l'exèrcit nord-americà al que se li ha encarregat, a Cambodja, la perillosa missió d'avançar riu amunt per eliminar a Kurtz, un coronel nord-americà renegat que s'ha tornat boig. En la profunditat de la selva, en un campament sembrat de caps tallats i cadàvers putrefactes, l'enorme i enigmàtica figura de Kurtz mana com un buda despòtic sobre els membres de la tribu Montagnard, que l'adoren com a un déu.

Un comando de mercenaris és contractat per la CIA per rescatar uns pilots capturats per les guerrilles a la selva Centreamericana. La missió resulta satisfactòria, però durant el seu viatge de tornada s'adonen que alguna cosa els està caçant un per un, aquesta cosa resulta ser un caçador alienígena que es queda amb les calaveres de les seves víctimes com a trofeus.

John Rambo, antic boina verda, visitarà un antic company d'armes i rep la notícia que aquest ha mort com a conseqüència dels efectes de la guerra. Al cap de pocs dies, la policia deté Rambo per rodamón i s'acarnissa amb ell. Aleshores recorda les tortures que va patir al Vietnam i reacciona violentament.

A city in Washington state awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky—shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and without warning, the citizens find themselves prisoners and their town under enemy occupation. Determined to fight back, a group of young patriots seek refuge in the surrounding woods, training and reorganizing themselves into a guerrilla group of fighters.

Un exèrcit format per tropes soviètiques i cubanes envaeix i destrueix una petita localitat de Colorado, provocant la III Guerra Mundial. Un grup de joves amb un alt esperit patriòtic aconsegueix fugir i preparar un contraatac ràpid.

Segona Guerra Mundial, 1943. Mallory i Miller, els herois que van destruir els canons de Navarone, són enviats a Iugoslàvia a la recerca d'un fantasma del passat.

A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him.

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

Líbia, 1929. L'Exèrcit Italià fa anys que lluita per ocupar el país contra la resistència beduïna liderada per Omar Mukhtar. Cansat de la situació, Benito Mussolini posa al comandament de la lluita a Líbia el General Graziani, tan arrogant com eficaç, per desembussar la situació. Però derrota després de derrota Graziani descobrirà que Omar Mukhtar, El Lleó del Desert, és un combatent infatigable digne de ser el seu millor adversari.

Following the incident in the Southeast Asia Union in 2116, Shinya Kogami resumes his vagrant journey. In a small South Asian nation, Kogami rescues a bus of refugees under attack by armed guerrilla forces. Among the refugees is a young lady by the name of Tenzin, who begs Kogami to teach her how to retaliate against the enemy. Just what does the girl who wishes for revenge and the man who has exacted revenge see as they gaze upon the edge of a world from which there is no escape?

2112; the summer before Akane Tsunemori was assigned to Division One of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Department. Teppei Sugo, an accomplished pilot of the Defense Army's 15th Integrated Task Force, joins the military operation in Okinawa. Three months later, an unmanned combat drone opens fire on the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo. Enforcer Tomomi Masaoka of CID Division One is dispatched to Sugo's military base to investigate the truth behind this case.

In the winter of 2117, a runaway vehicle crashes into the Public Safety Bureau Building. The driver is identified as Izumi Yasaka, a psychological counselor at the Sanctuary, a Latent Criminal Isolation Facility in Aomori Prefecture. But right before her interrogation, Inspector Mika Shimotsuki and Enforcer Nobuchika Ginoza are tasked with promptly escorting Yasaka back to Aomori. What awaits them there is a False Paradise.

Maria, a nurse whose daughter was killed by three militiamen, travels from Colombia to Spain with her younger son in order to get revenge.

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraordinary biographical film offers both a vivid portrait of a driven woman and a savage critique of the society that made her.

Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is shot in the spine and sent to the hospital emergency ward. As he fades in and out of consciousness, he recalls the events that led to his participation in the underground. Holding German occupation commander Engelchen responsible for all the horrors and deprivations heaped upon his comrades, Pavel is kept alive by the possibility of recovering and exacting vengeance upon the Nazi officer - no matter how long it takes.

Bogotá, 1980. During the government of President Turbay. An urban cell of the M-19 invades the Embassy of the Dominican Republic, taking 14 ambassadors as hostages. They demand that they be exchanged for political prisoners. The film focuses on the events that took place during those two months of captivity.

Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.

In the 1970s, a widow in a remote village takes over her husband’s barber shop. She becomes the laughing stock of the male-dominated community and in the process discovers freedom and liberation.