Michel, devenu légionnaire parachutiste à la suite d'une dette de jeu et à un accident de camion, retrouve par hasard Françoise, la femme qu'il aimait, mariée avec un autre, Mangin, son patron qu'elle a épousé, lasse d'attendre son retour...
Rescapés de la guerre d'Algérie et réfugiés dans des camps tunisiens, des enfants algériens témoignent, à partir de dessins qu'ils ont eux-mêmes réalisés, des événements tragiques qu'ils ont vécus. Projeté clandestinement, saisi dix-sept fois et censuré pendant douze ans, un film majeur sur la guerre d'Algérie.
Catherine est lingère durant la Révolution. Elle fournit un jeune lieutenant, désargenté, qui oublie de la payer. Elle est courtisée par un sous-officier, le sergent Lefebvre, mais elle est soucieuse de sa réputation... Le 10 août 1792, durant les émeutes parisiennes, c´est dans sa cour que le canon est tiré, vers les Tuileries. Puis, elle suivra son mari, le sergent Lefebvre, épousé entre deux campagnes napoléoniennes, dans ses pérégrinations militaires.
During the Algerian War, Bruno Forestier lives in Geneva to escape the enlistment in France. Working for French intelligence, he is ordered to kill Palivoda, who is pro-FLN (National Liberation Front of Algeria), to prove he is not a double agent. Refusal and hesitation keep him from carrying out the assassination.
After the Battle of Sedan during the Franco-Prussian War a pair of soldiers, one French and one German, become separated from their respective units. Taking shelter in a farmhouse, the two begin to bond despite their rivalry over a woman.
In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organized an audiovisual formation center to encourage a "dialogue in images" between the two factions. A film was edited from that experience, but the French police partially destroyed it. The images that were saved represent an unprecedented historical document: They tell of the Algerian War and the history of the ALN (National Liberation Army), as well as showing life after the war and, particularly, the reconstruction of the cities and the countryside after the war of Independence.
Ludovic Cruchot (played by Louis de Funès), a gendarme in a small French village, has been re-assigned to the seaside commune of Saint-Tropez under the orders of command sergeant major Gerber (played by Michel Galabru).
The gendarmes of St. Tropez are invited to New York City to a law enforcement conference. They are supposed to travel alone without spouses or children but Cruchot's daughter Nicole wants to go to New York as it may be her only chance. Cruchot forbids her to go because disobeying an order may hurt his career. As Cruchot travels to Le Havre by plane and train, Nicole gets a ride from her friend and sneaks onboard SS France and travels to America as a stowaway. During the journey Cruchot sees her hiding among the lifeboats but his captain convinces him that he is imagining things.
Au cours de la guerre d'Algérie, quatre hommes et deux femmes acceptent de convoyer pour le compte du Front de libération nationale algérien des camions à travers le désert.
En 1968, entre le Sud Viêt Nam sous contrôle de l'armée américaine et le Nord Viêt Nam en lutte pour l’indépendance, s'étend une zone démilitarisée autour du 17e parallèle. Joris Ivens et son épouse, Marceline Loridan, partent dans cette région autour du village de Vĩnh Linh pendant deux mois, afin de vivre parmi les paysans qui se sont réfugiés dans des caves pour tenter de survivre aux bombardements incessants de l'artillerie américaine.
Summer 1941. Over Nazi-occupied France, a Royal Air Force B17 Flying Fortress becomes lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. The crew, Sir Reginald, Peter Cunningham and Alan MacIntosh, parachute out over the city, where they run into and are hidden by a house painter, Augustin Bouvet, and the grumbling conductor of the Opéra National de Paris, Stanislas Lefort. Involuntarily, Lefort and Bouvet get themselves tangled up in the manhunt against the aviators led by Wehrmacht Major Achbach as they help the airmen to escape to the free zone with the help of Resistance fighters and sympathisers.
Alors qu’il tente par tous les moyens de rester en dehors des bouleversements sanglants provoqués par la bataille d’Alger, Hassan, père de famille intègre et naïf, offre sans le savoir, l’hospitalité à un moudjahid activement recherché par l’armée française.
In an artist’s studio, rich Parisian art dealer Félicien Mézeray sees the old soldier Legrain, whose back has a tattoo by Modigliani. This he sells unseen to two American dealers and the rest of the film revolves around his efforts to literally get the skin off Legrain’s back. The price Legrain wants is the restoration of his old family home in the country, which turns out to be the huge crumbling castle of Paluel in remote Périgord, while he turns out to be the last and extremely eccentric Count of Montignac.