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.
Claude Legault heads to places infused with memories, wonderful reminders of the country's unsung role during World War II, to gather touching, human and often unimaginable stories about Canada's participation and the people who lived through it.
Exploring defensive strategies, weapons and structures used across Europe over 2,000 years, shedding light on forgotten histories that shaped modern borders.
Top Tens of Warfare tells the story of modern age warfare in ten episodes. Each episode is dedicated to the top ten of military inventions, vessels, battles, aircraft, weapons, secrets, tanks, fighting forces, commanders and leaders and shows how they all influenced and changed the way we lived.
—Kalla
Bitter Rivals illuminates the essential history - and profound ripple effect - of Iran and Saudi Arabia's power struggle. It draws on scores of interviews with political, religious and military leaders, militia commanders, diplomats, and policy experts, painting American television's most comprehensive picture of a feud that has reshaped the Middle East.
Star Media's award-winning animation studio, Babich Design proudly presents this powerful and dramatic account of the Korean War (1950-1953). Often colloquially referred to as 'The Forgotten War', it was nevertheless one of the most dangerous big-power confrontations and threats to world peace since World War 2 with a bitter legacy of hatred and suspicion enduring to the present day. With a combination of stunning CGI animation, dramatic reconstruction and unique historic library footage, the full and harrowing details of this brutal and bloody war are vividly recreated for today's television audience for many of whom the war is a distant memory or a mere item in the history books.
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.
A five-part series that explores the forgotten story of the incredible engineering feats and secret survival techniques of five legendary battles fought underground during World War I.
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.
Eleven heart pounding WWII films, more than five hours of vintage content in one definitive collection. WWII: Air War contains 11 remarkable documentary films on six DVDs selected by specialists at the National Archives. New recruits attend gunnery training in The Rear Gunner and Memphis Belle follows the final mission of the B-17 bomber. Bomber chronicles the manufacture of one fighting aircraft. Thunderbolts covers the 12th Army Air Forces in Europe in 1944 and 45. In Combat America, Clark Gable narrates a dramatization of the 351st Bomber Group. Expansion to Air Power chronicles the forming the US Army Air Forces (AAF) and Army Air Forces: Pacific shows the AAF in the North Pacific. Air War in Europe features footage of Allied forces executing bombing missions and AAF Report showcases AAF accomplishments in 1943. In The Fight for the Sky,