Directed by Sam Peckinpah, Cross of Iron stars James Coburn and Maximilian Schell in a story set on the Eastern Front during World War II, following a German platoon navigating combat, hierarchy and survival. Based on the novel The Willing Flesh by Willi Heinrich, the film explores conflict and military life within a war drama setting.

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German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.