Specials

American veterans of the Vietnam War give riveting first hand accounts of their experiences in the 'unwinnable' conflict matched with archival film footage, audio recordings and personal photos. Using innovative tactics like helicopter warfare, US soldiers are faced with a bloody battle in the Ia Drang River valley.

Using epic drama to tell a factual story, D-Day: Men and Machines reveals how the attack was planned and executed, not only by the greatest military minds and fearless soldiers but by a maverick collection of inventors and boffins, toiling away behind the scenes.

Documentary that uncovers Soviet space disasters. The program reveals how personal rivalries, shifting political alliances and bureaucratic bungling led to failure and more than 150 recorded deaths.

A documentary presenting mankind's most ambitious effort at perfecting the means to its own annihilation. Featuring newly unclassified atomic test footage.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Both France and the United States suffered military defeat at the hands of the Vietnamese in the century's longest running military conflict. The French fought the war from 1946 to 1954 and the Americans continued it from 1964 until 1973.

An investigation into the remarkable historical confluence that led to the rise of German-Japanese cooperation during World War II, we reveal the story of Karl Haushofer, the keeper of many Axis secrets.