This series explores the history of drug trafficking from a political perspective and reveals the murky role played by many states which have used the drug trade as an instrument of power. Opium, heroin, cocaine, and designer drugs have sparked wars, financed militias, and brought down states.
Tony Robinson explores the forgotten conflicts he lived through: The Suez Crisis, The Bosnian War, The Gulf War, The Korean War, The Malayan Emergency and The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya.
From the Battle of Britain to the Dresden bombings, some of the most intense combat of World War II occurred in the airspaces over Europe. This multi-volume box set offers a comprehensive account of the aircraft that helped bring the Allies to victory, including the B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-24 Liberator, the P-51 Mustang, and many more.
Court Martial is an ITC Entertainment and Roncom Productions co-production crime drama television series set during World War II. The series details the investigations of a Judge Advocate General's office. It aired for one 26-episode season from September 5, 1965 to April 4,1695 on London's Associated Television (ATV). Twenty episodes were shown on ABC in the United States between April 8 and September 2, 1966. The series had its genesis in a two-part episode of NBC's Kraft Suspense Theatre, "The Case Against Paul Ryker", which was later re-edited into a 1968 theatrical feature, Sergeant Ryker.
The series won the1966 British Society of Film and Television TV award for Best Dramatic Series.
It was the first war the UN would fight in, the opening salvos of the Cold War. A war that would redefine global politics & shape a Region. This is the Story of the Korean War. Through gripping reenactments & the words of those who fought & lived through it, this four part series will take you through the horrors of the war.
This is a unique, mind-blowing series of 52 individual war documentaries. Each volume provides an original program packed with combat action and expert in-depth commentary and features spectacular footage from 20th Century's key conflicts.
Power, terror, performance. These notions define our perception of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party at the height of the Third Reich. But behind these impressions Hitler was a rather ordinary man. This compelling new series tells the story of one of the most comprehensive, wide-reaching, and successful marketing campaigns in modern history. It describes in a whole new way the rise of Adolf Hitler.
The three episodes of this limited series deal with three events in the center of Prime Minister Begin: The peace agreement with Egypt, changes in the economic-social field, and the Lebanon war, during which he declared that he could no longer go on and retired.
At the same time, he created the Devprived Alliance. Under this alliance, the ultra-Orthodox parties joined the coalition, the NRP received important ministries, including the ministry of education, and the Mizrahi-Traditional peripherents entered the corridors of the government.
With the thrust and parry of rigorous debate, Mehdi Hasan cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom, highlight contradictions and uncover double standards.
Nazi war criminals are hunted down and put on trail for atrocities committed during WWII. Contains Film of the concentration camps with survivors interviewed. These films follow the rise and fall of Nazism from the Munich beer halls to the Nuremberg War Trials. Includes flashbacks of a variety of Nazi war crimes against humanity.
Exploring defensive strategies, weapons and structures used across Europe over 2,000 years, shedding light on forgotten histories that shaped modern borders.
Air Power is a historical educational television series broadcast during the 1956-1957 television season over the CBS television network dealing with the rise of aviation as a military weapon. It starred Walter Cronkite as the narrator and featured a musical score by Norman Dello Joio.
'The series is set in a fictional town, 'Pustak' and follows the intertwined journey of four friends - Shiv, Rishi, Pushkar and Azhar - who get influenced by the area's politics and mafia.