For the F-16 pilot TEO, the war in Libya was the first hot mission. A new batch of students is starting at the defence flight school. Only very few will go all the way. In Arizona, the test pilot MON starts the biggest generational change in the Danish air force with the transition from the F-16 to the F-35.
A series of debates with the candidates for City Council of the district capitals of mainland Portugal.
Leading up to the local elections, RTP is hosting a series of debates featuring the candidates for the district capitals.
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 year 1540 was a crucial turning point in American history. The Great Indian Wars were incited by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado when his expedition to the Great Plains launched the inevitable 350-year struggle between the white man and the American Indians. From that point forward, the series of battles between the military and civilian forces of the United States and the native American Indians began when blood was shed and ultimately tens of thousands of lives were lost on both sides. The Battle of Tippicanoe, the Battle of Horseshoe Band, all three Seminole Wars and the Battle of Little Big Horn were some of the most important conflicts that led up to the last massacre, the Battle of Wounded Knee, where America's landscape would be forever changed!
The story of the Najla series took place in 1979, and a girl promised a boy in love in that turbulent and insecure situation that if the boy wanted to cross the border between Iran and Iraq and visit Arbaeen, he would reciprocate his love for her. He will answer in the affirmative. You have, but it all happened along the way
BBC Arabic's Nawal Al-Maghafi reveals how the UAE hired mercenaries to conduct targeted assassinations of its political enemies in Yemen, with American mercenaries starting the killings in 2015.
Almost two millennia after the Viking's often-terrifying reign, the modern age is used to uncover their secrets. By investigating burial sites, we discover who the Norsemen really were, what the truth was about the raids and battles, and what every-day life in a Viking settlement entailed.
Exploring defensive strategies, weapons and structures used across Europe over 2,000 years, shedding light on forgotten histories that shaped modern borders.
In 1960s South Vietnam, an undercover agent slowly works his way up through the ranks of Ngô Đình Diệm's administration to become one of its most prominent advisors
It all starts in 1985. In a small town there are three boys who dream of a career as a naval officer - Sashka Robertson, Leshka Balunov and Vovka Titov. The submarine K-963, on which their fathers serve, is leaving on a secret mission - to the NATO exercise area to find and record an acoustic portrait of the newest, virtually silent American submarine. And the boys, playing submariners in an abandoned factory, fall into a death trap. Years later, when friends Sashka, Leshka and Vovka were finishing school, military service no longer seemed so prestigious to many, values changed, and submarines rusted. Vovka leaves for Moscow, becomes a businessman. Lyoshka goes to the Marine Corps. And only Sashka remains true to his youthful dream and connects his life with the sea - he becomes a submariner.
Special series looking at the defining moments of the last century, caught on camera. Hear the stories behind world-changing photos from photographers, eyewitnesses, reporters, historians and more.
British military historian Professor Richard Holmes takes the viewer through four major battles of world war two. The Battles of Cassino, El Alamein, Arnhem (Operation Market Garden), & the RAF Bomber Command. An insightful overview of each of these diverse campaigns is given in each of the four episodes.
Indiana Jones, the swashbuckling lead character in the Hollywood movie franchise, thwarted the Nazis from stealing treasures and religious relics including the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant. The movies created a cultural phenomenon – but few of the millions who’ve watched his fictional adventures would realise the shadowy Nazi characters were based on fact. Heinrich Himmler’s special branch of the SS – Das Ahnenerbe – were tasked with finding treasures, artefacts, and religious relics of power like the Holy Grail, that might secure them victory in the war and prove Aryan supremacy beyond any doubt.