O companheiro e superior de John Rambo no Vietnã, o Coronel Samuel Trautman, foi designado para liderar uma missão na qual irá ajudar os rebeldes de Mujahedeen contra os soldados soviéticos que invadiram o Afeganistão. Durante a missão, Trautman é capturado e torturado pelo comandante russo Zaysen. A tensão e a adrenalina aumentam quando Rambo, ajudado por seus aliados rebeldes, botam em prática um plano para resgatar o coronel das mãos do inimigo.
Ang Lee adapta o livro da autora chinesa Eileen Chang para um forte drama sobre desejo e determinação ambientado na China dos anos 40, durante a ocupação japonesa. Uma jovem mulher se torna a peça principal em um plano para assassinar um impiedoso agente de Inteligência.
Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan. Achmed El Corda, the son of Halef's Hadedhin Beduin tribe's sheik Mohammed Emin, has been captured by the machredsh (Turkish governor) of Mossul for resisting water seizure by his Turkish troops. Kara takes charge of the rescue.
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark.
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.
The war on drugs has been going on for more than three decades. Today, nearly 500,000 Americans are imprisoned on drug charges. In 1980 the number was 50,000. Last year $40 billion in taxpayer dollars were spent in fighting the war on drugs. As a result of the incarceration obsession, the United States operates the largest prison system on the planet. Today, 89 percent of police departments have paramilitary units, and 46 percent have been trained by active duty armed forces. The most common use of paramilitary units is serving drug-related search warrants, which usually involve no-knock entries into private homes.