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.

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

Two generals prepare for battle at the Plains of Abraham.
Travelling the Western Front, grave to grave, former All Black Andrew Mehrtens shares the story of t...

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

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

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

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

How did the USSR - a country considered a second-rate industrial power, economically inferior to Ger...

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 ...

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

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

How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the...

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

Scramble the Seawolves is the unknown story of the US Navy’s first and only Attack Helicopter Gunshi...

Guy Martin undertakes a challenge to restore a plane from the Second World War, and recreate a parac...