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In this episode—which includes special guest appearances from The League of Gentlemen’s Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton—we meet a surprisingly charming Stuart highwayman, the captain of the Titanic holds the world’s worst safety briefing, famous writer Mary Shelley pitches the movie of her life, and those violent Vikings show their softer side in a song.
5) Alfonso XIII
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After reprising key events from Alfonso XIII's early years-most notably the loss of Spain's remaining colonies in 1898-this program traces his reign up to the military debacle at Annual. Vintage film and dramatizations bring early-20th-century Spain to life as they document major challenges to Spanish monarchal rule: Catalan agitation for autonomy, the spread of socialism and anarchism, the execution of Francisco Ferrer Guardia, labor violence, and...
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Highlights of this classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series are courtroom sequences staged by the Army to teach soldiers the essential features of the Uniform Code of Justice and the Courts-Martial. The program explains how the Army's laws came into being, who made them, and who continues to make them. Actors show the different consequences of misconduct in civilian and military life.
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Throughout the 20th century, countries have engaged in peaceful interactions and violent conflicts that have had global impact. This program explores key global conflicts since the end of World War I, including World War II, the Cold War, other regions of conflict including Afghanistan and Iraq, and the rise of global terrorism. Global cooperation in organizations like the UN and events like the Olympics is also explored.
8) First Day
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Historian Peter Barton explores the events leading up to and on the bloody first day of the offensive. Walking the battlefield, he explains the failures that led to over 20,000 British deaths and argues that to get a better understanding of events, one should not only confront what the British did badly but what their enemy did better. Based on research in German archives, Barton shows just how much they knew in advance about Allied plans through...
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This classic episode of The Big Picture television series was filmed in Canada by U.S. Army Signal Corps cameramen. Tracing the history of the Canadian Army from the middle of the 18th century to the present, the film examines the historic relations of Canada and the United States. Canadian-American solidarity is evident in the shoulder-to-shoulder fighting shared by Canadian and American soldiers on the battlefields of Europe and Korea. Canada's...
15) Vietnam
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A part of the series America in the 20th Century. It was the longest war in America's history and the most divisive in more than a century. This program explores the genesis of America's painful military "quagmire" from the roots of Vietnamese nationalism through a century of French colonial rule to the first Indochina war; it then takes viewers from John F. Kennedy's initial deployment of military advisers through increases and escalations under...
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This episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series goes to Fort McClellan, Alabama, for this first look at the new training center for Women's Army Corps officers and enlisted women. Since the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was created in 1942, women training for service with the U.S. Army have had a number of temporary homes, ranging from Florida to Massachusetts, from Iowa to Virginia. The permanent WAC Center is a cluster of 22 cream-colored...
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This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series takes viewers on a journey around the world in a mere half an hour, showing military police activities in Europe, helicopter activities in the Far East, and the latest in training methods within the Zone of Interior, aka the United States. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration presents these thrilling, informative scenes to American viewers so they...
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In this Program from the Combat Studies Institute, panelists discuss the ways various military theorists and the nations of France, Britain, America and Germany applied the lessons of World War I, driven by the desire to avoid trench warfare and huge casualty totals. It looks theories of air power and the reasons the U.S. and Britain looked to strategic bombing as crucial. It examines debates over naval doctrine in light of the development of the...
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This episode of the Air Force Story covers large scale operations in 1943, including plans to destroy Nazi U-Boats at the Casablanca Conference, bringing the enemy submarine threat under control; supplies air lifts over Himalayas to China; fighters protecting the Northwest region from Japanese attack; and Solomon Island Campaign highlights. Note: This historical recording may contain variations in audio and video quality based on the limitations of...
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After a haunting overview of the Second World War in episode 1, A Necessary War, Ken Burns takes us to back to the moment it all began. The inhabitants of four American towns recall life in their communities on the eve of the conflict. For them others finally beginning to recover from the Great Depression, the events overseas seem impossibly far away. But suddenly, their tranquil lives are shattered by the shock of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...