Connor MacLeod est un immortel. Il traverse les Ages depuis son Écosse de 1536, multipliant les rencontres, les expériences et les combats... Car depuis plus de 400 ans MacLeod affronte dans des luttes sans merci d'autres immortels pour remporter Le Prix. Le seul moyen de les tuer est de leur trancher la tête et c'est ce qu'il s'évertue à faire depuis des siècles tout comme son ennemi juré : le Kurgan. Un guerrier sadique ayant tué la majorité des immortels. C'est dans le New York de 1986 que MacLeod prépare le combat ultime qui fera de lui le dernier des immortels. Il ne peut en rester qu'un.

Un ancien élève d'un lycée aujourd'hui dominé par les gangs propose aux étudiants de prendre des cours de Capoeira avec lui, pour apprendre le respect. il se heurte au chef de bande local...

As a result of General George S. Patton's (George C. Scott) decision to use former Nazis to help reconstruct post-World War II Germany (and publicly defending the practice), General Dwight Eisenhower (Richard Dysart) removes him from that task and reassigns him to supervise "an army of clerks" whose task is to write the official history of the U.S. military involvement in World War II. Shortly thereafter, on December 9, 1945 (a day before he was to transfer back to the United States), Patton is involved in an automobile accident that seriously injures his spinal column, paralyzing him. As he lies in his hospital bed, he flashes back to earlier pivotal moments in his life, including stories his father told him of his grandfather's service during the American Civil War which inspired him to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point, his marriage to his wife Beatrice (Eva Marie Saint), and his championing of the use of tanks in the United States Army.