Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride...

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.

After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.

イタリア、ポー河沿いのレストランを夫と営むジョヴァンナ（クララ・カラマイ）は、ある日店に現れた男ジーノ（マッシモ・ジロッティ）に魅せられる。まもなく関係を結んでしまったふたりは、やがて夫を殺すべく計画を実行に移すが…。

第二次世界大戦後のイタリア、ローマ。 2年間職に就けなかったアントニオ・リッチは、職業安定所の紹介で役所のポスター貼りの仕事を得る。仕事に就くためには自転車が必要だと言われるが、生活の厳しいアントニオは自転車を質に入れていた。妻のマリアが家のベッドのシーツを質に入れ、その金で自転車を取り戻す。新しい職に浮かれるアントニオを見て、6歳になる息子のブルーノも心を躍らせる。 ブルーノを自転車に乗せ、意気揚々と出勤するアントニオ。しかし仕事の初日、ポスターを貼っている最中に自転車を盗まれてしまう。警察に届けるも「自分で探せ」と言われる始末。自転車がなければ職を失う。新しい自転車を買う金もない。アントニオは自力で自転車を探し始める。

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

第2次世界大戦後のイタリアに生きる庶民の人生の歓びや哀しみを、ある一人の初老の鉄道機関士の姿を通して描いた感動作。50歳のクリスマスを迎えたイタリアの鉄道機関士アンドレア・マルコッチは、末っ子のサンドロから英雄のように慕われていたが、長女のジュリアと長男のマルチェロからは、その厳格さや律儀で一徹な態度から敬遠されていた。しかしそんな彼らもやさしく献身的な母サーラがいるおかげで毎日平穏に暮らしていた。

Celal, lives an unhappy family life with his wife Sevilay and his child in a small town. Celal and his brother Cemal, running an electrician shop which doesn't go well. They are in debt. The only fun they have is going to the night clubs in Samsun. Celal's love for Sibel Ceylan who works in the night club, will cause him trouble. Celal's wife, Sevilay, saves her money, sent by her father who lives in Germany. She is unaware of the fact that Celal knows her secret.

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences.

The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply. In the context of this film, "Allegro non Troppo" means Not So Fast!, an interjection meaning "slow down" or "think before you act" and refers to the film's pessimistic view of Western progress (as opposed to the optimism of Disney's original).

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. This film examines the differences between democratic and fascist states.

A disgraced soccer star seeks redemption but is exploited by a variety of causes hoping to capitalize on his celebrity.