War

Part of the documentary series looking at the course of the First World War. This volume examines the events of 1917, when the Allies launched desperate attacks on the German lines with huge casualties, but with little result. By the end of the year, the Russians had withdrawn from the conflict following the Revolution, while the Americans were slowly becoming involved.

An estimated 72,000 horses and mules served at the Battle of Gettysburg, and this fascinating war documentary tells the story of the reliable steeds that played a crucial role in the Civil War.

British subjects convinced that Great Britain is trying to take away their freedoms fight the Revolutionary War. America founded on the belief that all persons might be free, with a glaring contradiction. The conflict with slavery lead to the Civil War.

Shiloh was one of the largest amphibious campaigns ever waged by an American Army. It was a brutal Civil War battle that where one in four who fought was killed or wounded. Highlights the 135th Anniversary Reenactment with 13,000 participants of the Tennessee battle, along with archival photos, digital effects, first-person accounts and narration.

While Aad and Arie are on vacation, someone breaks in. This takes a surprising turn, for everyone involved...

Experience Civil War warfare, as never before, with the American Battlefield Trust’s new virtual reality series. This immersive storytelling approach will put you back in time as you navigate in 360 degrees how it may have looked, felt and sounded to be a Civil War soldier.

Over the course of a decade, war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has claimed millions of lives and made orphans of countless children. Dan Balluff's documentary visits Kinshasa to examine the lives these children lead. Living on the streets of the capital city, they are sold into prostitution, tortured and persecuted for witchcraft. The film also reveals a volcanic eruption's impact on the influx of homeless youth.

Sea power proved crucial in determining the outcome of World War II, both in the Atlantic and the Pacific theaters. This DVD displays some of the epic sea battles that were fought during the course of the war: the battles against the German surface raider

Classic 1950's British WWII movies such as The Dam Busters, The Cruel Sea and The Colditz Story are revisited. Historian Simon Heffer and those who worked on the films defend the way the British society and the war were portrayed in them.

Three part documentary of the history of the Royal Air Force during World War Two. They combine actual Air Ministry films and period newsreel footage with interviews of surviving members of the air force. This final part covers the the years 1941-1945 from the campaigns to attack German military targets to mass night bombing, primarily from the viewpont of Bomber Command, and associated Air-Sea rescue. It ends with the food aid flights to the Netherlands immediatly prior to Victory in Europe. Featured aircraft include the Bristol Blenheim, the Vickers Wellington, and the heavy bombers Short Stirling, Handley Page Halifax and Avro Lancaster.

A grand Superman game is underway in Star Ball. To everyone's surprise, an accident caused everyone except Happy Superman, Big Monster, and Zhang Lang to disappear. To find their missing friends, everyone embarked on an adventurous journey

The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men of the Air. The fiendish Black Dragon Society, led by the sinister Baron (perennial B-movie villain Lionel Atwill) plots to pave the way for an Axis invasion of the U.S.A. by destroying America's defenses. When their plans are discovered by the Dead End Kids, the gang is too suspicious of "the coppers" to ask for help. The FBI send in their Junior G-Men to stop the spies, but when one of the Dead Enders is kidnapped, the two groups must work together to smash the Black Dragons once and for all!

This film portrays the dilemma of engineers who, although opposed to the war in Vietnam, were weapon-makers, employed at some of the most prestigious California institutions, specializing in war-materials production. The film presents their stories. The men play themselves. The analysis distinguishes three types of response to the dilemma: the rationalizer, the drop-out and the organizer. This film is not just about weaponmakers. It is about the dilemma of anyone who finds himself opposed to the system he lives in and works for.

An animated short offering small glimpses into the life of a British Soldier (Tommy) serving in the trenches.

A look back at the terrifying use of Gas as a deadly weapon in WWI.

A poetic glance at one week in March 2003 that defined the struggle of a nation at war abroad and with its people.

In 1961, four years before the Vietnam War, the CIA funded a Secret War in Laos. The Hmong became CIA's surrogate army, fighting and preventing Communism from consuming the country of Laos. Watch as questions about the Secret War in Laos during the Vietnam War and the circumstances that brought the Hmong to America are explored. —PBS

Hitler was losing the war in 1944. In the East, Russians rolled forward relentlessly, threatening the existence of Hitler's Third Reich. Hitler knew that if he were to survive, he needed a miracle. New technologies, or miracle weapons, could turn the tide of war. Against all odds, German engineers not only designed but produced in good numbers some of the best aircraft of the war, the ME262.