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- A Six Hour Series for The Discovery Channel that follows 80 candidates of Class 234 and their efforts to become US NAVY SEALS. You WILL feel the pain after watching the physical and mental challenges these candidates are faced with.
- An Army Ranger quick reaction force attempts to rescue a patrol pinned down on a mountaintop in southeast Afghanistan. They have no idea that within twelve hours five of them will lie dead in the mountain snow after an intense and deadly battle.
- Enter the subculture of Elvis impersonators, where performers seek fame and fortune by living off of a dead icon. When the lights go down these actors are the King. But what happens when the audience goes home?
- Go inside the intense training to become a USAF Pararescue Jumper. Meet the trainees and be there as they endure one of the longest and toughest special operations training courses in the world! Find out who will make it through so "That Others May Live."
- During the summer of 2005, filmmaker Gordon Forbes spent three months embedded with the U.S. Marines 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion during their deployment to the Sunni Triangle in Iraq. He and his team documented the daily grind and struggles of the men in Alpha Company as they fought the War on Terror, thousands of miles away from home. While most networks send a crew to shoot only enough footage for a 90-second highlight piece, this three-part documentary covers several operations - from helicopter raids and mounted patrols to everyday interactions with the people of Iraq.
- US Army Green Berets patrol the roads, small towns and villages in Southeast Afghanistan near the Pakistani border, supporting the local police against attack, training the local militia and dealing with the local warlords.
- For years, a secret society of hyper-geniuses and anarchistic whiz kids at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology worked and played at devising a method of card counting that would take the gambling world by surprise. This is their story.
- Combining rare footage of air-to-air combat with unprecedented access to Navy fighter squadrons on deployment, this film takes you on a wild ride in the seat of an F-14. See the documentary that was arguably the inspiration for the blockbuster movie!
- It is a story of forgery, betrayal, and threats. In one of the more unusual criminal cases of British justice to grab the public's attention, two men are on trial in a Crown court in London, England. After getting caught in a con that was rewriting art history, one painting at a time, they are charged with a criminal conspiracy to pass off millions of dollars in fake paintings by modern artists.
- When Somali pirates hijack the Maersk Alabama, Navy SEALs launch a sneak attack to rescue the ship's American captain. Recounts the harrowing five days from hijack to final fatal shots, and reveals sophisticated Navy SEAL training methods that prepare the world's most elite reconnaissance teams for daring missions with no second chances.
- The latest technology in US combat warfare. Land Warrior, a system of total integration of digital maps, real-time satellite, and surveillance images - all seen through a soldier's helmet-mounted display. Ride along in the Stryker vehicle, it has the firepower of a tank with enough on-board computer technology to make it a rolling command center. In the Future Warrior program, soldiers will be able to perform missions with superhuman strength, be more lethal and better protected through the use of advanced composite materials and bio-technologies. Intelligent ammunition and new weaponry that is changing the way wars are fought.
- Ride alongside the U.S. Coast Guard on actual rescues, immigration patrols and drug smuggler countermeasures battling the merciless forces of nature and never ending surge of lawless drug and human traffickers.
- During the Vietnam War, American pilots fought the enemy in the skies. But were these enemy pilots North Vietnamese? Or from another communist country?
- In Vietnam, the American Army was struggling to engage an elusive enemy. Learn about the Viet Cong's secret methods to hinder America's attempts to seal off South Vietnam.
- As regular American units fought under rules of engagement enforced by their political leaders, unconventional Special Forces fought classified battles, often "across the fence". Learn how their covert missions were carried out in North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.