Alors que la Première Guerre mondiale fait rage, deux jeunes soldats britanniques, Schofield et Blake sont chargés d’une mission clairement impossible. Dans une course contre la montre, ils doivent traverser les lignes ennemies et livrer un message empêchant une attaque mortelle contre des centaines de soldats, parmi lesquels se trouve le frère de Blake.
Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, un lieutenant britannique devient le commandant de troupes arabes au Moyen-Orient.
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
Dunkerque, 1940. 400 000 soldats britanniques sont coincés sur une plage française, attendant d'être évacués par leur armée. Des pilotes anglais affrontent l'ennemi au-dessus de La Manche afin de protéger les soldats sans défense, piégés sur le rivage. Sur la mer, de petits bateaux, conduits par autant de militaires que de civils, se dirigent vers la plage de Dunkerque dans l'espoir de sauver quelques soldats alliés. Parmi eux, un père et son fils déterminés à se rendre à destination malgré les nombreux bombardements et les recommandations contraires d'un soldat traumatisé repêché en cours de route.
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
The rise of a Malay warrior named Mat Kilau and his friends against the British colonialists who came to Pahang in 1892. The greed of British officials and policies, which have imposed excessive taxes, confiscated land belonging to the Malays to reap the treasures of Pahang and disrupted the Islamic way in Pahang has caused dissatisfaction among the rulers and the Malays. The patriotic spirit of Mat Kilau and his friends who rose up against British violence had caused Captain Syers to launch an attack on Mat Kilau. Witness the heroic spirit of Mat Kilau, Tok Gajah and Mat Kilau's best friends use their wisdom to fight in the jungle against the British soldiers. Did Mat Kilau and his friends succeed in driving out the barbaric and greedy British army to reap gold and tin in Pahang?
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.
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
En 1893, en Afrique du Sud, un jeune avocat indien, Mohandas K. Gandhi, subit un affront raciste. Dès lors, il se dévoue à défendre ses compatriotes victimes de lois injustes, ce qui lui vaut diverses avanies mais aussi une réputation internationale pour sa théorie de la non-violence dans la lutte qu'il mène. Il rentre en 1915 dans son pays, alors sous contôle britannique, et joint ses forces à celles d'un groupe de politiciens qui veulent obtenir l'autonomie politique. L'Inde obtient son indépendance en 1947, mais Gandhi meurt assassiné l'année suivante.
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
A band of soldiers is dispatched to war games deep in the woods. When they stumble across a rival team slaughtered in camp, they realize they're not alone.
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
The story revolves around the British finding out that Tok Gajah intends to go to Terengganu to seek support from the Sultan and Malay heroes of Terengganu. The British ordered the capture and elimination of Tok Gajah and his followers. Awang is forced to rescue Haji Sulong and ensure that Tok Gajah safely leaves Pahang for Terengganu. Awang faces various obstacles and battles with British soldiers led by Captain Syers. Does Awang succeed in defeating Captain Syers this time?
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.