Over 6,000 men served and 19 fell in the Congo Battalion (1960-64), Sweden's most dramatic and contentious UN operation. Many of the participants have borne the experience as a lifelong, well-hidden trauma. A visit to the Congo after fifty years causes some of them to finally open up and tell the things that they haven't even been able to say to their closest family.
Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian ...
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...
Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials ...
A quartet of powerful, hard-hitting short films that lay bare the disturbing reality of everyday lif...
Tiffany McKinley dismisses the stereotype of a single female personality in the military. For Tiffan...
In 1991, John Heroux served in Operation Desert Storm, piloting one of forty F16 Fighter Planes sent...
Following the tradition of military service in her family, Alene Duerk enlisted as a Navy nurse in 1...
John Bishop encounters one of the most endangered animals on Earth, and discovers they and his famil...
Joel Hunt served as a combat engineer from 1998-2007, with multiple tours in Iraq. While there, he e...
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, batt...
Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his fathe...
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...
The Korean War saw three years of heavy combat take place on the small Korean peninsula, ending in a...
In search of the lucrative matsutake mushroom, two former soldiers discover the means to gradually h...
A former U.S. Air Force air tanker navigator, Lt. Col. Ken Murray’s career takes us from the horrifi...
The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extra...
With unprecedented access to the UN Department of Peacekeeping, The Peacekeepers provides an intimat...
Follows veterans and active-duty service members from varied backgrounds who come together to combat...
A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slow...
A man performs the same ritual every day: he cleans his shoes, dresses up in his shiny blue suit, we...