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- The life of decorated U.S. Marine Corps officer Chesty Puller.
- Lincoln appointed Grant as General in Chief of the Armies of the United States on March 10, 1864. Grant believed that up to that point, Union armies in different theaters had "acted independently and without concert, like a balky team, no two ever pulling together." Accordingly, his strategic plan for 1864 called for putting five Union armies into motion simultaneously against the Confederacy. While three smaller armies in peripheral theaters tied down significant Confederate forces the two main armies, Meade's Army of the Potomac and William Tecumseh Sherman's army group at Chattanooga would lock horns respectively with Lee in Virginia and Joe Johnson's Army of Tennessee on the road to Atlanta. The simultaneous advance of several armies is called "concentration in time." As General in Chief, Grant chose to accompany Meade as he took on Lee. For nearly forty days, the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia were in nearly constant contact--at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Ana, and Cold Harbor. This is the story of those forty days and the campaigns across the country in support of Grants operation. This is the most import campaign of the war and the tactics used here changed warfare forever. This was the first use of total war were objective was to destroy the enemies ability to wage war. It was the first time stalemate trench warfare was used as well as railroad artillery. The re-enactments were filmed on the actual battlefields. Includes rare photos and expert interviews.
- MAAG are a group of American military advisers sent to other countries to assist in the training of conventional armed forces and facilitate military aid, most famously in the Vietnam War.
- The major powers in Europe prepare for war. The soldiers learn lessons ignored from the Franco Prussian war. The Soldier as a pawn. Britain's professional Army versus Germany's conscripts. Early war technology and tactics, the Grand Strategy and French Élan all leading to the call to arms. Though the Great War is remembered as one of the costliest conflicts in history, much of it was fought over a relatively small and blood-soaked swathe of France and Flanders. It is also striking for the great change and innovation in the art of war.
- Perryville - The Fight For The Heartland - In the fall of 1862, after the great victories of the Seven Days and the Second Manassas, the Confederates began their only coordinated campaign in both the East and West. A campaign that would make everything that came afterwards, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Appomattox, inevitable. The Confederate government hoped that by launching a two-pronged offensive into the border states of Maryland and Kentucky they could bring the war to a quick victorious conclusion. In addition to bringing new recruits and supplies to the cause, the campaigns were designed to bring European recognition to the fledging Confederate nation and possible armed intervention by Britain and France. The Campaign in the East would result in the single bloodiest day of the war and in the west a confrontation that for the number of troops involved just as horrific. Perrysville would end the South's best hopes of winning the war. Had the South won the Union capital would have fallen, the South would have controlled the Ohio River and the Chesapeake Bay. More importantly the Confederates would have possessed the main rail lines to the west and key manufacturing facilities. Shot with the cooperation of renowned Civil War experts and eight thousand re-enactors on the actual battlefield, Perryville covers the pre-war situation in the Border States and the early battles along the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers.
- Review the events and miscalculations that led to the war that ended the old world and created the new one. Our hundred-year-old footage has been colorized to bring the events of 1900-1914 alive. Then we visit a 100-acre site near Newville, PA where the Great War Association strives to keep alive the history of the "War to End All Wars" and honor those who fought its battles. On this site, the GWA has authentically recreated a portion of the Western Front as it appeared circa 1917-1918. The battlefield's opposing trenches are complete with a crater-pocked No-Man's Land. There are belts of barbed wire, used to protect the sandbagged front-line trenches, and the opposing positions are punctuated by bunkers with functioning machine-guns. Behind the main lines are supporting and communication trenches, connected to underground dugouts, where officers plan operations and the common soldiers eat and rest. There is even an airfield where bi-planes launch dawn patrols over the front lines.