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Part One. Documentary about the SAS (Special Air Service). The principal special forces unit of the British Army. The SAS can trace its existence back to 1941 and its motto is "Who Dares Wins".
Part Five. Documentary about the SAS (Special Air Service). The principal special forces unit of the British Army. The SAS can trace its existence back to 1941 and its motto is "Who Dares Wins".
The 1977 movie "A Bridge Too Far" was based on Operation Market Garden. An Allied military operation in September 1944. The plan was to secure a variety of bridges in German-occupied Netherlands to hasten the advance of Allied troops. Here the Germans launch their first attack on the British paras at the Arnhem bridge.
A cultured family man, yet brutal, sadistic, and a ruthlessly efficient SS-Obergruppenführer and chief of the Reich Security Main Office (including the Gestapo, SD and Kripo Nazi police agencies). Adolf Hitler considered him a possible successor. A look at the life of Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich.
Part One. Consigned to the distant past and to some just a name in history books, the Assyrian Empire rose out of Assur (modern day Iraq) in the 20th century BC. They reached their zenith in the 7th century BC and supreme control of the Middle East. Part 2/Part 3
Part 2/Part 3 Part One. The events that inspired "300". "The Battle of Thermopylae took place during the second Persian invasion of Greece, in August or September 480 BC, at the pass of Thermopylae (`The Hot Gates`). It was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I." This takes place ten years after the Battle of Marathon.
Part Five.
"The Légion étrangère is a unique elite unit within the French Army established in 1831. The Legion has survived three republics, one empire, two World Wars, the rise and fall of mass conscript armies, the dismantling of the French colonial empire and, finally, the loss of its birthplace, Algeria." Part 2/Part 3/Part 4/Part 5
The Cold War was a clash of ideologies and battles for influence ranging all over the world. In late 1961 matters became very heated in Berlin, East Germany. Berlin was located in the Soviet controlled part of Germany but was divided into four sectors: US, UK, French, and Soviet. "The wall separated East Germany from West Germany for more than a quarter-century, from the day construction began on August 13, 1961 until the Wall was opened on November 9, 1989."
"Britain became the third nuclear power when it successfully detonated an atomic device in October 1952." This video contains some eyewitness accounts and impressive visuals of the destructive power of the H-Bomb.
