本片记录了二战中1942年6月4-6日的美日中途岛海战，包括日军战机轰炸、美军地面还击、空中打击，以及战后清点伤亡的情景。影片全部为真实战争场景记录，解说由导演约翰•休斯顿（John Houston）、达德利•尼古拉斯（Dudley Nicholas）及詹姆斯•凯文•迈 克吉尼斯（James Kevin McGuinness）事后创作，并由多为好莱坞影星配音以加强效果。
本片或1943年奥斯卡最佳纪录片奖。导演约翰•福特在拍摄过程中受伤，苏醒后立刻再次投入拍摄，并因此获得紫心勋章。

两名洛杉矶副警长违抗撤案命令，追捕当地一名暴徒，并使用非正统方法取得成果。

The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.

前摔跤手、田纳西州警长布福德·普瑟（Buford Pusser）走路很高，手里拿着一根大棒，与全县的腐败和月光下的暴徒搏斗。

Philo 参加地下拳击比赛（没有带手套的）赚的钱比他在汽车修理厂乾活赚的钱多的多,因而他决定不再乾修车的了,但当黑手党来了之后组织了一次拳击比赛， 他也被迫参加到比赛之中。各方势力的纷争从此开始。

一个爵士乐手爱上了一个昏迷的女子，他把她带到了自己的家里，希望能够好好的探究一下她…… 这是库布里克导演的一部现代版的《睡美人》。

The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their personal accounts -- his best-seller, her book on how it affected their marriage -- and distilled into an eight-hour drama with all of the political figures of the day parading by as Dean relates his story to his attorney when his world, based on blind ambition, begins crashing down on him.