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Shootout!

Season 1 2005

  • 2005-07-19T04:00:00Z on History
  • 30m
  • 12h 30m (13 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, War
Take aim from both sides of the fight. SHOOTOUT! examines the personalities, the weapons, the firepower, and the leadership needed to defeat the enemy. With 3D CGI animation sequences and testimony from scholars and experts, the battles come alive as they looked to the soldiers and shooters themselves.

13 episodes

Series Premiere

2005-07-19T04:00:00Z

1x01 D-Day: Fallujah

Series Premiere

1x01 D-Day: Fallujah

  • 2005-07-19T04:00:00Z1h

By the fall of 2004, Fallujah, Iraq had become a viper pit. Over the previous six months, the once holy city had become the center of gravity for the Iraqi insurgency. Terrorists and radicals from across the Muslim world congregated there to resist the US occupation. Many came to martyr themselves and to take as many coalition troops with them as possible.

2005-07-26T04:00:00Z

1x02 Guadalcanal

1x02 Guadalcanal

  • 2005-07-26T04:00:00Z1h

The extra-ordinary stories of several Marines who defended Guadalcanal from seemingly overwhelming Japanese attacks are re-enacted.

2005-08-02T04:00:00Z

1x03 Wild West

1x03 Wild West

  • 2005-08-02T04:00:00Z1h

Western shootouts were messy, drunken, and deadly affairs. The vision of two gunslingers meeting in the street at high noon is pure myth. Shootouts were typically up-close and personal. They involved lawmen against outlaws, outlaws against outlaws, and sometimes lawmen against lawmen.

2005-08-16T04:00:00Z

1x04 Assault on Germany

1x04 Assault on Germany

  • 2005-08-16T04:00:00Z1h

In 1944, General Eisenhower's order was short and to the point: destroy the German army. WWII ASSAULT ON GERMANY recounts and reenacts the experiences of US soldiers who participated in one of history's greatest military campaigns. Their deeply personal stories offer a graphic view of what it was like to conquer Germany one pillbox, one troop shelter, one hilltop, and one town at a time.

2005-08-23T04:00:00Z

1x05 Battle for Baghdad

1x05 Battle for Baghdad

  • 2005-08-23T04:00:00Z1h

For 21 days in the spring of 2003, two U.S. Army and Marine divisions raced north across the Iraqi desert from Kuwait. The planners of Operation Iraqi Freedom believe that taking Baghdad in a hurry will be like "cutting off the head of the snake" and will bring a speedy end to the war.

2005-09-13T04:00:00Z

1x06 North Hollywood Shootout

1x06 North Hollywood Shootout

  • 2005-09-13T04:00:00Z1h

On February 28, 1997, a high stakes bank robbery devolved into an urban firefight that became one of the most violent shootouts in law enforcement history. With TV cameras capturing the action from above, two paramilitary-style gunmen took over a bank using terrorist technology. Donning full body armor and automatic weapons, they charged out of a Bank of America branch in North Hollywood, California. With brutal and brazen disregard, they fired armor-piercing ammo at police and citizens, turning a congested residential area into a combat zone. Police on the scene that day recount their ordeal in this gripping hour.

2005-09-20T04:00:00Z

1x07 Pacific War

1x07 Pacific War

  • 2005-09-20T04:00:00Z1h

In the vast emptiness of the Pacific, World War Two was fought on tiny specks of land. SHOOTOUT heads right into the middle of a daring raid on the Makin Atoll and storms New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. Experience the plight of an outnumbered solo machine gunner and the single rifleman who held off hundreds of Japanese in the Philippines. Some of these battles took minutes, others took hours. Meet the men with guns in their hands, thousands of miles from home, where victory meant survival.

2005-09-27T04:00:00Z

1x08 SWAT Team Shootouts

1x08 SWAT Team Shootouts

  • 2005-09-27T04:00:00Z1h

Hostage rescue; a store held captive by armed men; disgruntled employee.

2005-11-01T05:00:00Z

1x09 Iraq's Ambush Alley

1x09 Iraq's Ambush Alley

  • 2005-11-01T05:00:00Z1h

In March of 2003, the Marine Corps sent two columns north across the Iraqi desert to help the Army seize Baghdad. Planners knew that if there was going to be trouble, it would happen on a stretch of road between two bridges in Nasiriyah. They were right. SHOOTOUT details what happened when a convoy of supply trucks took a wrong turn onto "Ambush Alley." With escape in sight, the Marines found themselves in a heated firefight with black-robed Fedayeen fighters. Over the next several hours, they tried to fight their way out, save their wounded comrades and complete their mission.

2005-11-06T05:00:00Z

1x10 Hunt for Bin Laden

1x10 Hunt for Bin Laden

  • 2005-11-06T05:00:00Z1h

Four years after Bush sent troops to Afghanistan to topple the Taliban, Americans continue to fight and die as they pursue Osama bin Laden, battle with al-Qaeda, and destroy remnants of the old regime. Fighting a tenacious enemy across searing deserts and frigid mountain peaks requires strong weaponry and sound tactics. SHOOTOUT introduces veterans of a conflict that is now waged in the shadow of Iraq, men who have survived ambushes, firefights, and rescue missions in some of the least hospitable terrain on earth.

2005-11-29T05:00:00Z

1x11 Storming France

1x11 Storming France

  • 2005-11-29T05:00:00Z1h

Veterans of the legendary D-Day battles recount their memories of the fierce fighting. Computer graphics and re-enactments show how they fought and won.

2005-12-13T05:00:00Z

1x12 Battlecry Iraq: Ramadi

1x12 Battlecry Iraq: Ramadi

  • 2005-12-13T05:00:00Z1h

On April 6, 2004, Iraqi insurgents warned shopkeepers in Ramadi's marketplace that "Today we are going to kill Americans." BATTLECRY IRAQ: RAMADI reveals exactly how they made good on their promise, targeting members of the "Magnificent Bastards," as the Second Battalion of the 4th Marine Regiment is known.

2005-12-13T05:00:00Z

1x13 Iraq's Most Wanted

1x13 Iraq's Most Wanted

  • 2005-12-13T05:00:00Z30m

They're cold-blooded killers in pursuit of one thing--political power. For Iraq's "Most Wanted", the message is clear: surrender and you might live; resist and you will not.

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