Jarhead cuenta la historia de Anthony Swoff, un joven enlistado en el ejército que se arma sólo con su rifle a través del desierto de Oriente Medio. Swoff y sus colegas "marines" se apoyan mutuamente con chistes malos mientras sobreviven en un país que no entienden, luchan contra un enemigo que no pueden ver y por una causa que totalmente no comprenden.

Las presiones de una senadora del Congreso de los EE.UU. convierten a la teniente Jordan O ́Neil en la primera mujer de una unidad de élite del ejército estadounidense. En el fondo, nadie espera que supere un régimen de entrenamiento severísimo que el sesenta por ciento de los reclutas masculinos no consiguen terminar. Sin embargo O ́Neil está dispuesta a demostrar que todo el mundo se equivoca.

Guerra de Irak. Después de destruir accidentalmente uno de sus propios tanques, el teniente coronel Nathan Serling (Denzel Washington) vuelve a casa. El Ejército oculta el incidente y asigna a Serling la misión de investigar al capitán Karen Walden (Meg Ryan), una piloto de helicóptero que, a título póstumo, está a punto de convertirse en la primera mujer héroe de guerra que recibe la medalla al honor por una acción en combate. Ésta fue la primera película que se hizo en Hollywood sobre la I Guerra del Golfo.

A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.

Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.

En marzo de 1991, el capitán Archie Gates, los sargentos Troy Barlow y Chief Elgin y el soldado Conrad Vig matan el tiempo en el desierto iraquí mientras aguardan el fin de la guerra y la vuelta a la aburrida y desesperanzada vida civil. Pero la monotonía se rompe cuando descubren un mapa que indica el lugar donde se encuentra una reserva de oro kuwaití robada por los iraquíes. Inmediatamente, los cuatro deciden buscar el tesoro. Pero, mientras lo hacen, van descubriendo cuáles son las condiciones de vida del pueblo iraquí y, a partir de entonces, la búsqueda del tesoro se convertirá en una historia de redención que los cambiará profundamente y pondrá a prueba su humanidad.

Durante más de 17 años se ha invertido tiempo, energía y un montón de dinero para crear el vehículo de Lucha Bradley; lo malo es que no funciona. La supervisión del invento se le encomienda al Coronel Burton (Elwes), que descubre falsificaciones y pruebas amañadas que pueden destrozar la carrera de algunos importantes militares.

Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.

A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson, starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Veteran CNN producer Robert Wiener and his longtime producing partner Ingrid Formanek find themselves in Iraq on the eve of war. Up against the big three networks, Weiner and his team are rebels with a cause, willing to take risks to get the biggest stories and - unlike their rivals - take them live at a moment's notice. As Baghdad becomes an inevitable US target, one by one the networks pull out of the city until only the crew from CNN remains. With a full-scale war soon to be launched all around them, and CNN ready to broadcast whatever happens 24 hours a day, Wiener and Formanek are about to risk their lives for the story of a lifetime.

Set in 1990 on an Air Force base in the mid-Atlantic. Billy is desperate to listen to his team Middlesborough, play Newcastle United. But Billy's quest for diversion masks an unspoken trauma in his past which he is forced to confront.

Macho Lawrence 'Larry' Hammer and frailer Dean Mazzoli initially rival as U.S. Navy SEAL trainees, but become buddies in instructor chief petty officer Bosco's merciless training class. The friends date two girls, but both love Barbara, who chooses to marry Larry, as ideal father for her pre-teen son. After graduation from Basic UDT/SEAL training, they choose opposite oceans for further training. However Sadam Husein's invasion of Kuwait gets both mobilized in the same unit, with Bosco, who gets captured and tortured. Dean learns Barbara has left adulterer Larry. They mount a rescue together, taking risks even on their own side.

Chronicles of a male homosexual drug addict in 1980's in voice-over with long take scenes from Rome, television snippets of news of Gulf War and commercials.

An examination of the aftermath of Desert Storm and how servicemen and women were affected by it medically.

Three years after taping his previous show in the Persian Gulf, Bob Hope returns to the front line to put on another USO Christmas extravaganza, this time in Saudi Arabia for US Troops preparing with other nations to expel Iraq's 1990 invasion and attempted annexation of Kuwait.

Over a devastating night, a couple grapples with memories from the Gulf War.

Everything you've ever wanted to know about Saddam Hussein (but were afraid to ask).

Two best friends are pitted against each other when a new girl comes to town, matters are further complicated when they enlist together in the U S Army to fight in the Persian Gulf War, the men and their unit captured by Iraqi forces and must work together with other prisoners of war to escape...

In honour of the 15th Anniversary of 9/11, National Geographic Channel is looking back at the very best reporting we have done since this world-changing tragedy first happened using extended excerpts from past specials that relate directly to events leading up to and following the attacks on New York City and Washington DC.