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- Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.
- Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
- In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
- Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But what a motley bunch they turn out to be.
- This drama reveals the controversial postwar 1950's London murder trial that sent an intellectually challenged young man to the gallows for a murder he did not commit.
- 1968 and 1969 in Paris during and after the student and trade-union revolt. 20-year-old François is a poet dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself, and they fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
- Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
- Two soldiers stationed in Singapore set off in pursuit of the fairer sex instead of carrying out their orders. Soon after their arrival on the exotic island, the two visit a local brothel and there encounter a pair of lusty nurses.
- Documentary series following 30 bad lads over a four-week period as they go through army basic training 1950s style.
- Few knew that Stalin spent his last night in the arms of a young Australian woman. Few still knew that their "love-child" brought Australia to the brink of civil war. Until now.
- A kid living in Brittany in the 1980s is called up for military service and drafted to West Berlin.
- The music video for Elton John's "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues," which shows a young couple being separated during the 1950's because the guy has been forced to leave for National Service.
- PRIVATES is the story of the last intake of conscripts for National Service in 1960; eight young men undertake basic training at a windswept camp in Yorkshire, as the end of the era of deference meets the world of rock n' roll.
- The entire Finnish Defence Forces are laid off, excluding Sargeant First Class Körmy and their regiment. During this time Sweden shows interest in a piece of land in Finland, sparking conflict between the two nations.
- The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.
- Starting social work as a paramedic, young Patrick soon comes in contact with patients that are more suffering from their loneliness than from their actual diseases. As he tries to help, he gets himself into relationships that are way more demanding than expected.
- A military farce about a reluctant sailor, who is recruited into the Navy. His time in the unit turns into a holiday resort, where a spy ring operates.
- The Olive Depression documents the weeks before a teenage boy enters military service He is determined not to mentally accept what is required of him by law. He opts to prepare himself by maintaining his melancholy about something against what it means to be human. However, seeing the depression of his best friend who enters the army before him and the worry of his parents lead him to question his principles. As he strives not to succumb to the government's world view, he finds it increasingly difficult to be contented and sad at the same time.
- An idealistic and stubborn Kärnä enters into military service and instantly clashes with oppressive and cynical Sergeant major Sato. During the ensuing power struggle, the winner has to be more cunning and manipulative.