Ride with the air cavalry and regiments that have fought in Vietnam, Iraq, and today's front lines. The U.S. Cavalry is still an example of excellence, pride, and tradition, and still play a critical role in our armed forces today..

This episode looks at the sniper in the major events of the late 20th Century, including the Korean and Vietnam wars, and the role snipers played in America's urban crime wave..

A look at the first American Snipers from the beginning of the country's history..

He Toki Huna (title taken from Māori proverb, 'the hidden adze cuts the most sharply') explores Aotearoa New Zealand's longest military involvement - the country's engagement in the war in Afghanistan. The documentary also provides context to some of Afghanistan's turbulent history before and after the events of 9/11.  The film asks three questions: Why did NZ go into Afghanistan? What did they do there? And why did we hear so little about it?...

For 13 days in 1962, the world was on the brink of nuclear war. Nikita Krushchev's decision to place nuclear weapons in Cuba sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis. But what's relatively unknown is that he was responding to an earlier perceived threat from America: the stationing of nuclear weapons in Murge, Italy -- within striking distance of the USSR. In this film, we reveal how Murge was transformed unwittingly into a theatre of the Cold War.

This award-winning documentary tells the colorful story of how three tenacious female war correspondents forged their now legendary reputations during World War II -when battlefields were considered no place for a woman.. When WWII broke out, reporter Martha Gellhorn was so determined to get to the frontlines that she left husband Ernest Hemingway, never to be reunited. Ruth Cowan's reporting was hampered by a bureau chief who refused to talk to her....

MESSAGE FROM HIROSHIMA illustrates the immense suffering and loss that resulted when the world's first atomic bomb detonated in the historic city of Hiroshima. Today, where the Hon and Motoyasu rivers meet, stands the Peace Memorial Park -- the former location of the Nakajima district, which was once home to thousands of people and hundreds of businesses before the bombing.. Survivors and former residents recount their lives before the bombing, accompanied...

Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**

Relive the bravery of the Dunkirk veterans in defenseless boats crossing the English Channel to rescue the stranded soldiers from the infer through their uplifting stories of heroism in a battle that changed the course of WWII.

A recently discovered cache of hundreds of personal letters, diaries and photos belonging to the Nazi Gestapo chief seems to reveal a thoughtful, loving husband and devoted father to his daughter. The documents first found in the Himmler family house in 1945 were hidden in Tel Aviv for decades and sold to the father of the Israeli documentary filmmaker, Vanessa Lapa. Through readings of Himmler's and his family's most personal writings and rarely...