Charles de Gaulle

June 6, 1944. 150,000 soldiers, 5,000 ships and 11,000 airplanes. One man's decision. The D-Day invasion - the largest military operation of World War II and the beginning of the end - marked Dwight Ike Eisenhower as one of America's most powerful military leaders. IKE: COUNTDOWN TO D-DAY follows the 90 terrifying days leading up to the invasion as Eisenhower decides the fates of thousands of soldiers while managing complex strategic relationships with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, American General George S. Patton, Britain's Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery and French President Charles de Gaulle. It was a time of no guarantees and certainly no second chances. In this climate, one man, Dwight Eisenhower, pulled the world's leaders together for one of history's most infamous battles.

The Day of the Jackal -- A professional assassin codenamed 'Jackal' plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

It's one of those nightmare days. Imagine yourself at the airport. It's the first day of school holidays, the pilots have gone on strike, the computers are down, the weather is awful, and stranded passengers are draped over every imaginable chair in the terminal. Into one end of the Paris airport of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle enters the delightfully arch Rose (Binoche), a beautician with a cheap ticket to Mexico City. Trying to hide behind her obsessively applied make-up, she's running away from a boyfriend she no longer loves. Into the other end of the terminal comes Filix (Reno), an exhausted businessman travelling from the United States to Munich. He's on his way to a funeral and the woman he loves. Neither of them is in any condition (or mood) for an encounter, but, funny thing, they just keep running into each other! Coincidence or kismet, it doesn't matter, these two are on a collision course.