1922. This is not a war story, but the tale of the making of the man named Sergeant Alvin C. York. York is best known for his bravery in World War I where, caught by the enemy in a cove on a hill in the Forest of Argonne, York held his ground and single-handedly fought a battalion of 135 German machine gunners until he forced their surrender and marched them as his prisoners into the American lines.