Series marking the ten-year anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, telling the story of the conflict through the words and pictures of the young soldiers themselves.Ambushed – This opening part of the series tells the story of a close-knit group of friends from 3 Platoon, 1st Battalion Royal Anglian regiment, who were sent to Helmand province in 2007. For most of them it was their first exp
Taliban videos of roadside bomb attacks on coalition vehicles in Afghanistan broadcast on an Al Qaeda network, these videos display images of a ground troops worst fear coming true, being hit by an IED or improvised explosive. The problem with these devices are the fact that they are difficult to detect and the simpler the device the harder detection becomes. 60% of all casualties come from IED's
Spied upon by MI19 in a bugging operation of unprecedented scale and cunning, 4,000 German POW’s revealed their inner thoughts about the Third Reich and let slip military secrets that helped the Allies win WWII. Based on groundbreaking research conducted by a German historian, the film tells the story of how those conversations were recorded and how they can now reveal, in more shocking detail tha
Con Thien (Tiếng Việt: Cồn Tiên, meaning the "Hill of Angels"), was a United States Marine Corps combat base located near the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone about 3 km from North Vietnam. It was the site of fierce fighting from February 1967 through February 1968.On 27 February 1967, in response to Marine artillery fire into and the area north of the DMZ (Operation Highrise) NVA mortar, rocket
The film took a year to make and features interviews with those in the town who made the simple act of paying their respects as hearses drove by, into a focal point for the nation to honour Britain’s fallen troops.Focussing on one day, one dead soldier’s return, the film “Wootton Bassett – the town that remembers” charts how local people, and later visitors from far and wide have kept a simple t
This is the true story of the scientific feats and failures of Hitler’s Nazi Germany.Germany is portrayed as a nation leading the world in science and technology prior to World War Two.But it squandered this wealth of knowledge, which should have enabled it to win the war, because the high command was selective about those advances they would favor.Examples are provided of technologies that
Panorama investigates claims that as much as $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq. When the US goes to war, corporate America goes too. There are contracts for caterers, tanker drivers, security guards and even interrogators, many of them through companies with links to the White House. Now more than 70 whistle-blower cases threaten to reveal the
A documentary looking into the French Foreign Legion, long known as one of the most mysterious and secretive fighting forces in the world.Men from all over the world have left their pasts behind to start a new life as elite soldiers in the Foreign Legion. This film looks beyond the myths to portray the lives and experiences of the real Legionnaires.
This film chronicles the career of Germany's most brilliant World War II tactician. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) was nicknamed the "Desert Fox" for his brilliant leadership of German troops in North Africa. He had an unbroken string of victories until defeated by General Montgomery's much larger forces in Egypt. This documentary contains film clips of the famed "Ghost Division" and rare