Sahara (also known as Desert Storm) is a 1995 American-Australian made-for-television action war film shot in Australia and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and starring Jim Belushi.

In June 1942, on the eve of the Battle of El Alamein, American Sergeant Joe Gunn and the crew of his M3 Lee tank Lulu Belle are the sole survivors of their unit.

The stragglers, led by British doctor Captain Halliday, decide to ride with Gunn in an attempt to escape the advancing Afrika Korps.

Along the way, they pick up first British Sudanese soldier Tambul and his Italian prisoner, Giuseppe, then downed Luftwaffe pilot Lieutenant von Schletow.

When the German commander attempts to resolve the impasse, embittered "Frenchie" Leroux meets him outside the fort and kills him, only to be shot down by a sniper while returning to his side.

Without a leader, the thirst-maddened Germans' final assault turns into a full-blown surrender as they drop their weapons and claw across the sand towards the well.

Director Brian Trenchard-Smith, the son of an Australian officer in the Royal Air Force lived in the UK, but before migrating to Australia, studied filmmaking.