A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
Первая мировая война. Крис Болдри после тяжелого ранения возвращается в родной дом. Он был контужен и абсолютно не помнит события последних двадцати лет своей жизни. Криса встречают две любящие его женщины — кузина Дженни и жена Китти, Первую Крис узнает, потому что они росли вместе, вторая для него — чужой, незнакомый человек....А ему нужна только Маргарет, в которую он был страстно влюблен в молодости, и чувство к ней вспыхивает с новой силой, несмотря на то, что вместо юной девушки он видит даму средних лет. Только Маргарет может излечить его и вернуть в реальную жизнь.
В начале декабря 1941 года группу медсестер армии США отправляют из Сан-Франциско на военно-морскую базу на Гавайях. Нападение японцев на Перл-Харбор 7 декабря 1941 года изменило адрес их переброски: корабль, на котором они плыли, направляют на полуостров Батан, Филиппины. Туда же посылают группу медсестер во главе с лейтенантом Джанет Дэвидсон. В ее составе медсестры, не имеющие опыта работы и ожидавшие райскую жизнь в Гонолулу. Суровая действительность, с которой они сталкиваются по прибытии на Филиппины быстро позволяет им набраться опыта и, несмотря горечь потерь, утрату близких и тоску по дому, стать профессионалами своего дела. Военно-патриотический фильм США времен Второй мировой войны.
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.
An investigator is asking Mrs. Gubbins about a William Foster, who was a friend of her stepson Jimmy. Both are listed as killed in action during the Great War. It is Armistice Day, 1918, and the war is over. Who should be strolling down the street but Jimmy Gubbins, Bill 'Jones' and another man who has lost his memory. They are ghosts as the official records list them as dead and not as escaped P.O.W's. Jimmy's mother is not happy to see that Jimmy is still living as she has been spending the death benefits, but she is happy to see Bill as there is a large reward for him. No one knows much about the third one, called 'Spoofy', except that he can steal anything at anytime and that gets everyone is trouble.
The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. Some returning combat veterans suffer scars that are more psychological than physical. This film follows patients and staff during their treatment. It deals with what would now be called PTSD, but at the time was categorised as psychoneurosis or shell-shock. Government officials deemed this 1946 film counterproductive to postwar efforts; it was not shown publicly until 1981.
After the suppression of "Let There Be Light" (a documentary about combat-induced post-traumatic stress disorders which presented many inconvenient and demoralizing truths), the U.S. Army Signal Corp created this dramatized up-beat remake of the film. Only this time, the production excluded the involvement of John Houston, the producer of the original documentary.
A shell-shocked black soldier is cared for by a miner and his daughter when he wanders into their camp, and makes a fresh start in life with the aid of the American Legion.