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Eighteenth-century Kazakhstan isn't a very hospitable place, but a tribe of warriors does what it can to keep the peace and defend the land from invaders and enemies within. Then word comes that a mystical boy will lead them out of the darkness and into the light of a grand and wonderful empire.

Clint Eastwood's follow-up to Flags of Our Fathers details another story from Iwo Jima, but this time, the tale is told from the Japanese side of the battle. The film follows real-life Japanese General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) who battled American troops for 40 days on the island of Iwo Jima.

Five years after the end of the Civil War, Gideon (Pierce Brosnan) is relentlessly pursued by the bloodthirsty Colonel Morsman Carver (Liam Neeson) who holds a secret grudge. Death and mayhem follow these two men until one can finally kill the other.

In February 1945, as the United States closes in on victory in Europe, the battle in the Pacific still rages on. A photographer captures a photo during the battle of Iwo Jima, an image of men raising the flag, which is destined to become a symbol strong enough to raise morale back home. But as they're paraded around the country in an effort to sell war bonds, the surviving flag raisers begin to wonder who the real heroes of the battle were.

James Franco stars in this war drama about the Lafayette Escadrille, an elite squad of American fighter pilots who volunteered for the French military during World War I.

Anthony Swofford (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee in the Marines, goes from boot camp to active duty in the first Gulf War. As an elite sniper under the command of a hardcore sergeant (Foxx), Swofford and his fellow soldiers face nearly intolerable heat, an expansive desert, an enemy they often can't see and a growing disillusionment over why they were sent to Iraq in the first place.