After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.

Two generals prepare for battle at the Plains of Abraham.

The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

How did the USSR - a country considered a second-rate industrial power, economically inferior to Ger...
Travelling the Western Front, grave to grave, former All Black Andrew Mehrtens shares the story of t...

In 1973 Alister Barry joined the crew of a protest boat (The Fri) to Mururoa Atoll, where the French...

When the Dutch initiates an aggression against Indonesia to regain its rule post World War II, a gro...

Historians, veterans, politicians, and anti-war leaders discuss the history of the military draft in...

Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like...

Skip Liberty enlisted in the Army in 1968. During his tour in Vietnam he shot 3,100 feet of Super 8 ...

Four hard-hitting stores, from the deadliest period in U.S. Army Aviation, since Vietnam. Actual foo...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

The story of the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps and their 2000-mile bicycle journey from Montana to St....
On May 5th, 1945 the Netherlands was officially liberated from Nazi occupation by Allied Forces, mos...

Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berl...

Doolittle's Raiders pull off a one-way bombing run over Tokyo and ditch their planes in and along th...

Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at ...