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A break in the manhunt for Osama Bin Laden serves as the riveting backdrop for a gripping story about the combined efforts of an extraordinary group of Navy Seals. This is the story of a clandestine operation, a perfect storm of people, and the rare synergy of circumstances that would amount to the most daring military operation of our generation, inspired by the true story of how it almost fell apart.
Covering the Vietnam War for UPI, Kate Webb survives fierce battles and 23 days of captivity in the jungles of Cambodia after she is taken hostage by Communist Forces/Viet Cong in 1971. She is believed to be dead — her obituary even runs in the New York Times — before she is released.
The U.S. Army Special Operations Command creates a pilot program that allows elite women soldiers on the battlefield with Green Berets and Army Rangers in Afghanistan in 2010. The unit, CST-2, brings together a hand-picked group of women from the Army, and that includes 1st Lieutenant Ashley White. White and her platoon mates bond over adversity. She becomes the first CST member killed in action. White's name is placed on the Army Special Operations Memorial Wall of Honor alongside the Army Rangers she served with in the unit.
The film tells the true story of Capt. Ernest Evans, the U.S. Naval Commander posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle off Samar, part of the October 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf - one of the largest naval engagement in history.
Arminius, a German, is trained as a Roman warrior, but switches allegiance when the Romans try to take over Germania. At 25, he unites disparate Germanic tribes and rallies them to victory against the Roman Army in the bloody Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The defeat has ramifications that end with Arminius losing his life, but it halts the Roman Empire's expansion North, and becomes the worst loss suffered by the Romans under the reign of Augustus Caesar.
The black comedy is set against the backdrop of a secret Arctic military base in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. It is based on a true story from the Korean War of a hospital where incurably injured veterans of Korea were kept invisible and officially missing until their deaths.
Set during WWII, airline pilot Paul "Pappy" Gunn's family is imprisoned by the Japanese in the Philippines at the infamous Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Gunn is an adviser to the Air Force, helping to reinvent aerial warfare and change the tide of the war in the Allies' favor.
The true story of Lance Corporal Leslie Martz, a U.S. Marine who was stationed in Haditha, Iraq.
Four American soldiers set out on the grueling ascent of an Italian mountainside in the closing days of WWII, haunted by their evil sergeant's cold-blooded murder of a young woman and with an old Italian man of uncertain loyalties as their guide.
Focuses on the life of WWII resistance fighter Vera Laska.
During WWII, Edward Arnold Chapman, a career criminal, spies on the Germans for the British.
Based on the true story of a woman who unwittingly became the voice of German propaganda targeted to American troops during WWII.
The account of a Navy SEAL translator in Iraq. The translator took part in more than 1,000 missions over a six-year period.
The story centers on "Curveball", an Iraqi informant, whose information about biological weapons was used by the U.S. government to justify the war in Iraq.
Adam Brown battles personal demons, including drug addiction and jail time, to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a Navy SEAL.
On October 3, 2009, more than 300 Taliban fighters launch a predawn raid on a remote and controversial American outpost near the Afghan-Pakistani border, overrunning its perimeter defenses and breaching its wire. Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha, a husband and father of three children, plans and leads a small band of soldiers in a counterattack against seemingly insurmountable odds, saving dozens of American lives, and ultimately receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions.
Set during WW II, Arthur Meyerowitz's, an American turret-gunner, B-24 bomber is shot down over Vichy France in 1943. While hiding in the French countryside, Meyerowitz befriends Marcel Talliander, the founder of the legendary French resistance group Morhange, who helps shelter Meyerowitz from the Gestapo through his secret network. After six months of barely evading capture, Meyerowitz escapes through a carefully orchestrated plan that also involves R.F.W. Cleaver, one of the most accomplished British fighter pilots of the war.
During the Civil War, Union Army surgeon Dr. Mary Edwards Walker struggles to be accepted and compensated in the same manner as her male counterparts in the medical field and ultimately becomes the first and only female recipient to receive the Congressional Medal Of Honor. Even after receiving her medical degree at Syracuse Medical College, Walker is considered unfit for the Union Army Examining Board and initially is only allowed to serve voluntarily as a surgeon. While serving in the war, Dr. Walker is captured by Confederate soldiers after boldly crossing enemy lines to treat wounded civilians and is arrested as a spy – eventually being released in a prisoner exchange.
The true story of the 1960's largest Irish American gang war in history.