小说主要通过对布列斯特要塞英雄保卫战的描写，刻画了一位年仅十九岁的中尉军官的精神上的成长。主人公普鲁日尼科夫，一个刚从军校毕业的学院，满怀着瑰丽未来的憧憬，兴冲冲地来到要塞报到。他的名字还未来得及列入花名册，战争便于凌晨拂晓爆发了。作为一个未入名册的编外战士，他自觉地奋起保卫祖国，在地下室里坚持战斗达数月之久，历尽了难以名状的战争磨难，最后壮烈牺牲。
作品中，作者不仅以朴实隽永的语言刻意描绘了一幅幅悲壮场景，而且以细腻的笔触描绘了普鲁日尼科夫中尉与犹太姑娘米拉的崇高爱情，谱写了一曲抒情的英雄交响乐。

Trouble is brewing in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. For the driven inhabitants of this visionary world, control of Westeros' Iron Throne holds the lure of great power. But in a land where the seasons can last a lifetime, winter is coming...and beyond the Great Wall that protects them, an ancient evil has returned. In Season One, the story centers on three primary areas: the Stark and the Lannister families, whose designs on controlling the throne threaten a tenuous peace; the dragon princess Daenerys, heir to the former dynasty, who waits just over the Narrow Sea with her malevolent brother Viserys; and the Great Wall--a massive barrier of ice where a forgotten danger is stirring.

改编自白先勇同名小说。该剧描述1945年，众人沉浸在抗战胜利的喜悦时，马上面临继起的国共内战，再次被战火无情催逼、生死两隔的动人情感。

The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.

A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.

This is a story about the battle for a hospital building in Grozny (Chechnya) in January 1995 between Russian Army forces and Chechen rebels supported by Arabian mujahideen and international mercenaries. Although the story is fictional, most of the characters are based on real-life prototypes and events are the compilation of true events during the Grozny Siege in the First Chechen War.

2015 Taiwanese television series

2008 film directed by Mark Herman

第一次世界大战期间，十九岁的保罗·博伊默尔受到“爱国主义”的激励，跟同学们一起志愿参军，但战争与军队生活的残酷完全超出想象。在新兵训练营里，他们被迫抛弃从前对知识和自由的信仰，接受彻底的改造。短暂的训练后，新兵们被派往前线作战，所见所闻尽是残酷：战壕内都是老鼠、虱子；烈性传染病威胁着每个士兵的生命；战友们一个个阵亡，或受伤被送到野战医院；野战医院设备简陋，药品缺乏，伤患的死亡率极高。
保罗休假回家，发现德国国内仍沉浸在对于战争的英雄主义幻想中，普通人无法想象士兵们在前线所受的灾难，他和从前的生活已完全脱节，他的感受无人能懂。保罗重回前线，此时战争愈发惨烈，未来一片迷茫……

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.