The selections from 2024 include "Land of Bad," which follows Liam Hemsworth as an isolated joint terminal attack controller in the Philippines receiving support from a drone pilot played by Russell Crowe. That same year's "The Covenant" focuses on a soldier portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal who goes back to Afghanistan to retrieve his interpreter, Ahmed, played by Dar Salim.

Historical and real-life military events feature in several reviewed titles. The 2001 film "Behind Enemy Lines" casts Owen Wilson as a U.S. Navy pilot shot down over Bosnia, drawing loosely from the experiences of Scott O'Grady. "Rescue Dawn" stars Christian Bale as Dieter Dengler, depicting Dengler's 1966 escape from a Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos.

World War II settings account for the remaining films in the review. In "Saving Private Ryan," Tom Hanks plays Captain Miller, leading a squad across German-occupied France to find Private James Ryan. "Inglourious Basterds" features Brad Pitt as the leader of a Jewish-American soldier unit operating in Nazi-occupied France.

Two 1960s releases complete the list. The 1961 production "The Guns of Navarone" follows Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn as operatives assigned to destroy German artillery on a Greek island. The 1967 film "The Dirty Dozen" stars Lee Marvin as Major Reisman, who prepares 12 convicted soldiers for a pre-D-Day mission inside Nazi-occupied France.