A visit to the famed aircraft carrier USS Midway and interviews with men who served aboard it bring the exciting story of the vessel to life in this dramatic documentary. In service for 47 years, the Midway saw heavy action during the Vietnam War, and its hair-raising missions to rescue downed pilots were legendary. After Vietnam, the Midway, now berthed in San Diego, participated in numerous operations, including the Gulf War.

In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offen...

A British girl is trapped on the island of Crete when the Germans invade it.

This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, histori...
In July 1951, all the sides to the Korean War sought a ceasefire. For a ceasefire, the Allied and Co...

In World War II, a tough sergeant is put in charge of a squad of young recruits and assigned to lead...

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís C...

Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing d...

American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to ...

Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit ...

A story of two boys who obstinately, in spite of everything and everyone run to the front when the w...

1943, the Japanese Army is falling back to the Pacific, leaving only collaborationist troops. Commis...

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, K...

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Inte...

Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai....

A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are w...

It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their ...

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow ...

In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British for...

It is the winter of 1943. Somewhere in central Greece. A captain and a sergeant of the Greek army ar...