When Hitler's Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the world was stunned by the use of a new and fast-moving form of warfare - Blitzkrieg, or lightning war. Follow the story of Blitzkrieg's initial successes in campaigns in France and Poland, and discover the weapons and tactics employed in these early victories.

On the fateful day of August 24, 1939, in a Paris restaurant, six friends heard the radio broadcast that would plunge the world into war. Vowing to reunite every year on that day, the close-knit friends parted ways and prepared to join the conflict. Follow each of their lives through the explosive World War II action of the London Blitz, the Normandy invasion and aerial dogfights in their desperate fight against the Nazis. Each of them faces the hell...

Dangerous missions relives the epic battle that followed through recollections from the front, commentary from military historians and extensive combat footage. Operation Detachment was supposed to last three or four days. It turned into an epic, 36-day struggle that saw nearly 28,000 soldiers killed--6,821 Americans and some 21,000 Japanese. It remains the bloodiest battle in the history of the US Marine Corps.

Based on actual WWII events, the film is set in December 1944 near Malmedy, Belgium, when advancing German troops kill over 70 unarmed American prisoners of war, an event known as the Malmedy Massacre. The four men who manage to escape into the Ardennes are a cross section of war-movie archetypes: a tough-talking sergeant; a devout, soft-spoken sharpshooter; a wisecracking medic from Brooklyn; and a blundering Cajun country boy. When a stranded R.A.F....

Foyle, a veteran detective is persuaded to remain on duty at home rather than join the troops at the front as World War II begins. But home is on the vulnerable southern English coast and the chaos, danger and venality of war seep into everyday event

Casablanca express: Commando Al Cooper must foil the Nazi's attempt to capture Winston Churchill on the train to Casablanca. Waterfront: Jerry Donovan must save the day when the codebook of two undercover Nazi spies falls into his hands. Cold war killers: Twenty-seven years after a plane carrying extremely valuable cargo crashes into a lake, England's defense staff and the Russian Intelligence struggle to recover it's contents. A Yank in Libya:...

Tried by fire: Two part epic that shows the role of the 84th Infantry Division in the breakthrough of the former impregnable Siegfried Line and the dramatic conflict known as the Battle of the Bulge. Also includes the crossing of the Roer and Rhine rivers. Bridge at Remagen: Watch the events surrounding the capture of the important bridge at Remagen by American troops March 7, 1945. This gave the U.S. troops the first bridgehead on the Rhine River....

Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and s

Air-to-air combats are typically fought between fighters that are relatively matched in terms of performance and armament. Meet the pilots who entered aviation's hall of fame as leading aces, from World War I to the first jet fighters of Korea, to the combat pilots of today. See how combat leaders exploited the available technology in their favor, and became the aces of their day.

Twenty-four hours out of San Francisco, submarine captain Cassidy unseals his top-secret orders and reads two fateful words: Destination Tokyo.