Dünyanın her yerinde medyanın ilgisini çeken gerçek bir olaydan esinlenen Son Piyade, 92 yaşındaki bir 2. dünya savaşı gazisi olan Artie Crawford'ın maceralarını anlatan dokunaklı bir dram. Artie, Normandiya'da gerçekleşecek 75. yıl anma törenini kaldığı huzur evinde duyar. Kutlamalara katılmaya kararlı olan Artie huzur evinden gözüpek bir kaçış planlar ve eski birliğine son bir kez saygısını sunmak için Fransa'ya doğru ilham verici bir yolculuğa çıkar.
Tank komutanı Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov 1941 yılında cephede ağır yaralanır ve tekrar cepheye dönemez. Kendi kendini yetiştirmiş bir mucit olan Mikhail Kalaşnikov evine doğru yola çıktığında Rus askerlerin yetersiz silahlar yüzünden cephede çektikleri zorlukları fark eder ve her koşulda sorunsuz çalışacak bir silah yapmaya karar verir.
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now...
Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his country to the Nazis, who quickly move Hungarians to ghettos and death camps, with no hope in sight. But the despair changes when a young man named Elek emerges. Separated from his family during the relocations and aided by the woman he loves , Elek defies the enemy by becoming one of them. In a race against time, disguised as a Nazi Officer he embarks on a mission to save his family and thousands of his countrymen.
Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger says that the film "...tells a universal story... analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called "war on terror". According to Pilger, the film’s message is that the greed and power of empire is not invincible and that people power is always the "seed beneath the snow".