Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to...

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though t...

Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental r...

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for thei...

Admiral Yi Sun-sin faces a tough challenge when he is forced to defend his nation with just 13 battl...

The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett ...