The Sound Barrier

In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.

In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.

A British officer resigns his commission on the eve of his regiment's departure for war in Sudan. Accused of cowardice by his friends and the woman he loves, he sets out to prove his courage to them.

During the Napoleonic Wars, a British captain is sent to Spain to help prevent the French from stealing a powerful cannon.

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.

A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.

A flight crew tries to save the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Japan during a raging typhoon.

Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.

On the eve of WW2, a British spy goes to Germany to obtain a secret poison-gas formula from a scientist but things go awry and he is saved by a beautiful nomadic gypsy woman.

In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.

When the U.S. forces withdraw from Java, ahead of the Japanese invasion, U.S. Navy doctor Corydon M. Wassell coordinates the remaining wounded servicemen and leads them to safety towards the last Alli

From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.