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- On January 29, 1991, Saddam Hussein sent his three best armored divisions across the Kuwaiti border, into Saudi Arabia. This feature-length special tells how U.s. elite troops caught in their path escaped the enemy onslaught and then reversed the assault. Based on the book Storm on the Horizon and featuring extensive commentary from the author and many of the Marines who faced the Iraqi assault, this is the story of the first battle of the Smart-Bomb Age.
- 2002– 22mTV-PG9.7 (9)TV Episode
- Features 107-year-old Rose Freedman telling personal stories with the wisdom that only a centenarian can. Hosted by Jack Lemmon.
- Follows class 10-00 through the three rigorous phases of U.S. Army Ranger School.
- 2002– 30mTV-PG9.4 (7)TV Episode
- The story of Tonica Jenkins,who faked her way into Yale and then attempted to fake her own death using the body of another woman.
- 1998–201142m9.2 (11)TV EpisodeThe tragic story of the World War II-era B-24 Liberator bomber "Lady Be Good", which mysteriously disappeared after its first bombing mission over Naples, Italy in April 1943. The plane was discovered 15 years later, without its crew, in the Libyan desert 400 miles south of its air base.
- Compiled over two years, an 'on-camera oral history' of Easy Company, told by the veterans themselves. Accompanies the mini-series Band of Brothers.
- The story of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, consul to Lithuania during World War II, who defied Tokyo authorities and wrote transit visas allowing Jewish families to flee Europe to Japan and other countries.
- R. Lee Ermey, the sergeant in Full Metal Jacket, answers mail about what the armed forces were, and really are, like. He steers a WWII M5A1 tank and explores the Gatling Gun and samurai swords.
- 2002– TV-PG8.6 (7)TV Episode
- The Living Century: The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary People is a new biography television series that profile individuals who are 100 years of age and older. Each 30-minute episode profiles the life of a single centenarian. Their memories, their unique perceptions of the world and the radical changes they witnessed during their lifetime come alive through interviews, family photographs, home movies, archival footage and an original musical score. There are 70,000 Americans who are at least 100 years old. By the year 2050, there will be 834,000. The producers research and select active and lucid centenarians to honor their lives, their experiences and the contributions they have made and continue to make to society.
- The Battle of Iwo Jima, a pivotal campaign during World War II and the bloodiest fight in history for the U.S. Marine Corps, is described and remembered.
- 2002– TV-PG8.5 (8)TV Episode
- Using modern computer animation, great aerial and modern naval battles are recreated. In the process, you learn about the history of military transportation technology, the tactics created and the people using them.
- Former U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant R. Lee Ermey answers viewers' questions about military technology.
- Colonel Robin Olds leads a flight of four F-4 Phantoms mimicking American bombers in the first ware of Operation Bolo, to lure North Vietnamese MiG-21s into a trap. An expert P-38 dog-fighter, Olds reintroduced dogfighting to the 8th fighter wing, This one operation obliterates half the North Korean MiG 21 force and discourages attacks on American bombers for quite some time.
- What if you cannot trust your best friends? A missing young woman is found shot to death and hurriedly covered up in a makeshift grave. Her best friend comforts her mother and points police to the Goth friends she has been warned against.
- 1998–201143mTV-148.3 (20)TV EpisodeOn Friday, November 13, 1942, all five Sullivan brothers from Iowa were serving aboard the U.S.S. Juneau when a Japanese torpedo hit. 400 died instantly; 150 or so bobbed helplessly in shark-infested water. When rescue forces finally arrived, only 10 survived--none named Sullivan. Could their deaths have been avoided?
- From World War One to Vietnam this program traces the evolution of the tactics and weapons used in aerial combat with archival footage, computer simulations and explanations by the pilots themselves.
- The story behind the most dangerous trucking routes in the world: hauling freight across the frozen lakes and rivers of Canada's Northwest Territories during the arctic winter.
- The World War II Battle of Samar when a small US Navy task unit defeated a vastly more powerful Japanese fleet.
- The strategic importance of Guadalcanal leads to many intense air battles. American pilot's tell the stories of the experiences that made them aces in a day.
- Who would murder such a nice lady? And why? Cooperation of the public and family with the Pinellas PD was just as important in solving this case as forensics. A photo of the victim wearing a watch was a clincher for the jury.
- The most likely suspect when an estranged wife is missing? The husband, of course. When she is a college professor having a fling with a "bad boy," police believe there may be a better choice, but first they need to find her body.
- Karin Strom is found strangled to death in her home. Twenty-six years later, DNA from the crime scene leads to her killer.
- In 1958 Jean Ellroy, a divorced nurse and closet alcoholic, was strangled and her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy LA suburb. Her killer was never found and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
- Robinson Risner flew an F-86 Saber in Korea at the dawn of the jet age. There, with a hunter's persistence, he pursued his prey whether Korean, Chinese or Russian leading to some dramatic air combat adventures. In 1953 Ralph Parr leads a flight of four Sabres hunting sixteen MiG 15s leading to an extended dogfight. The improvements from the 1951 F-86A to the 1953 F-86F gave Parr a decisive advantage.
- This program is practically a promotional video for the pilot pleasing F-8 Crusader. The effectiveness of this aircraft in early engagements against the MiG-17 including Dick Sahaffert's 10 minute dogfight are described in exquisite detail.
- On May 10, 1972 the United States escalates the air war in Vietnam bombing strategic targets in the north. On this day American pilots shot down a one day record of eleven MiGs trying to intercept the bombers.
- Three pieces of luggage filled with the dismembered body of William McGuire are retrieved from Chesapeake Bay. Can New Jersey police convince a jury that his beautiful wife (a nurse) was capable of such a gruesome crime?
- A pregnant woman is found strangled to death with her baby removed in a crude Cesarean section. Police attempt to reconstruct the crime and eventually discover the kidnapper Lisa Montgomery.
- In SOLVED career defining cases are presented by investigators. Forensic analysts, trace evidence experts, crime scene technicians, forensic document examiners, forensic linguistics, handwriting experts and computer forensic specialists add their incredible investigation techniques to help solve compelling murder cases.
- Noted World War II battles of the US Navy's F6F Hellcat fighter class and how it helped counter the Japanese's Zero fighter for air superiority.
- This program provide detailed reenactments of three of the epic dogfights of world war one.
- Stacey Castor calls 911 to report the suicide of her husband David by the ingestion of alcohol and antifreeze. As police investigate several inconsistencies in the story, they are shocked when there is a murder attempt on Stacy's daughter Ashley.
- A man confesses to killing his polygamous wife but refuses to give details. Where's the body? What's the method or motive? Forensics is the key to bring this self-appointed "minister" to justice.
- The Los Angeles FBI office receives a call from a man who claims his son has been kidnapped with just one week to live unless his family pays a $230,000 ransom. Agents follow the money trail overseas and uncover a ruthless international kidnapping ring.
- Unusual forensic experts helped solve the 2004 murder of Charlene Hummert: forensic linguists, soil analysts, photometrics, and computer recovery. Even without being allowed to know the man had confessed to the murder, the jury convicted him on the evidence.
- What caused the Devonian extinction event 370 million years ago, one of five major extinction events in the history of Earth.
- K/T extinction event. What was the last year of dinosaurs' existence on Earth like?
- A University at Buffalo student is found raped and murdered on a Bike Path in upstate New York. Police connect her murder to a series of rapes and later to two more murders. After more than a decade, they manage to connect the evidence and discover the murderer.
- Noted World War II dogfights of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, an American fighter class famous for its durability under fire.
- World War II battles of the noted American land based fighter class.
- The first supersonic gun kill and two other high speed dogfights of earlier eras are described.